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Project Number: | I01HX002123-01A1 |
| Title: | Financial vs. Non-financial Rewards for Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance: A Randomized Controlled Trial |
| Principal Investigator: | Paul L. Hebert |
| Location: | Seattle, WA |
| Congressional District Code: | 7 |
| Research Service: | Health Services R&D |
| Project Period: | February 2017 - July 2021 |
| FY 2021 Funding Amount: | $69,361 |
| Total Award Amount (all years): |
$1,215,581 |
| Abstract: |
View full abstract and other project information on NIH RePORTER Go To NIH RePORTER Excerpt: Project Background: Behavioral economics suggests that our chronic inability to make the daily behavioral changes that can help us lose weight may be the result of “present bias,” which is a tendency to value small, immediate rewards over large rewards in the distant future. For many of us, the immediate gratification of eating an unhealthy food is a more powerful motivator than is the elusive dissatisfaction of the long-run health consequences of an unhealthy diet. Patient incentives may overco... |