Pat Hoddinott

Sep 26, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Pat Hoddinott |Stephan Dombrowski |New Brunswick |Frank Kee

Weight Loss Maintenance After Financial Incentives End—Reply In Reply We agree with Drs Guo and Zhang that sustainable behavioral changes are required. To support this, our trial combined financial incentives, daily behavioral text messages, and web links to evidence-based information and services. As stated in the discussion of our article, we did not test financial incentives alone.1 Guo and Zhang suggest that only intrinsic motivation leads to sustainable long-term change.

May 14, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Pat Hoddinott |Pathfoot Building |Lisa Macaulay |Stephan Dombrowski

Key PointsQuestion  Do text messages with or without financial incentives promote weight loss in men with obesity? Findings  In this randomized trial that included 585 men with obesity, text messaging with behavioral messages combined with a financial incentive resulted in a 5% weight loss at 12 months, compared with weight loss of 3% for text messaging alone, and 1% for the control group.

Nov 15, 2023 | bmjopen.bmj.com | Joanne Clarke |Stephan Dombrowski |Pat Hoddinott |Eleni Gkini

The trial was planned to take place in 10–15 sites; 17 will be the final number. Each site is an English local authority area or National Health Service (NHS) Health Board in Wales or Scotland, or part of a local authority area with low breastfeeding rates. Sites are selected for usual care that does not deliver universal proactive peer support antenatally and postnatally.