Part 1: General demographics and questions about the Lose Smart Challenge

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1 Default Question Block Welcome to the study! This first survey has 3 major parts and will take about 20 minutes to complete. If you need to take a break, please feel free to leave the survey any time you want. You can return to it by clicking on the survey link that was sent to you by . All your answers will be automatically saved. You have until Tuesday, March 11th at 11am to complete this first survey. If you have any questions during the process, please contact Séverine Toussaert at st1445@nyu.edu. Otherwise, let's get started! Please enter below the personal ID number that was sent to you by . Make sure to enter the correct information. Part 1: General demographics and questions about the Lose Smart Challenge What is your gender? Male Female What is your current age? or older Your marital and parental status: Single without children Single with children Married or in couple without children Married or in couple with children Highest level of school completed or highest degree received: Page 1 of 11

2 High school degree or less Some college but no degree Associate degree Bachelor degree MA or MD degree MBA degree PhD degree Are you a new or a returning participant in the Lose Smart Challenge? I am a new participant. I am a returning participant. How many times did you participate in the Lose Smart Challenge prior to 2014? During any of these years, were you among the final winners or Top Ten of the Week? Yes No What aspect of the challenge seduced you the most? (Please select all that applies) The competitive environment The possibility to win a prize The social aspect The support system (including free workshops and gym access) Other (please indicate below) How did you hear about the challenge? Through the communications of LiveSmart Through a friend or colleague Through my participation in other programs or events Other (please indicate below) How many diets have you attempted over the last 10 years? How many of these diets did you consider successful? (enter -1 if you did not attempt any diet) Page 2 of 11

3 How much weight (in pounds) do you intend to lose by the end of the challenge? On a scale from 1 to 7, how confident do you feel that you will achieve this goal? (1 = extremely uncertain; 7 = extremely confident) What potential obstacles could prevent you from achieving this weight loss over the course of the challenge? (Please select all that applies) Failure to go to the weigh-ins Lack of physical exercise Too much snacking Eating out too often Other (please indicate below) Which of the following events do you plan to attend? (Please select all that applies) Total Body Blast (March 7th) Nutrition Seminar 1: Food trends (March 13th) Nutrition Seminar 2: Perfect your shopping list (April 3rd) Cardio Bollywood (April 4th) How many times do you plan to exercise in total over the 8 week challenge (including walking, going to the gym, participating in the events proposed by LiveSmart). If you plan to exercise N times per week, please multiply N by the number of weeks. How many times in total do you plan to exercise at David Barton Gym over the free month membership? (again, if you plan to exercise at the gym N times per week, please multiply N by the number of weeks i.e. 4). There will be 3 other weigh-ins scheduled at David Barton Gym. Which of these weigh-ins do you plan to attend? (Please select all that applies) March 25th April 15th April 29th Part 2: Your $20 Whole Foods gift card As already mentioned in the introduction, you will receive a $20 gift card at Whole Foods for completing both parts of this study. You can now choose to receive your gift card only if you reach a given target goal by the end of the program. Page 3 of 11

4 You can now choose to receive your gift card only if you reach a given target goal by the end of the program. Setting a goal may help you stay on track during this challenge. For every goal in the list below, we will ask you to enter a target number: 1. Come to weigh-ins. (Remember that there are 3 weigh-ins remaining) 2. Attend David Barton Gym times during the free month membership. 3. Attend events of the LiveSmart program including Total Body Blast, Cardio Bollywood or one of the two nutrition seminars. This is entirely voluntary: you can choose not to set a goal. If you do not want to set a goal, please select 0 for all these options and you will receive the $20 irrespective of your performance in this challenge. You can also set a single goal or choose multiple goals. However, whatever you decide, your decision will be strictly enforced. Example: Suppose that you enter 2 in goal 1. and 0 for the other two options. Then you will only receive the gift card if you came to at least 2 weigh-ins during the rest of the challenge. In order to verify whether your goal(s) was (were) attained, your attendance will be recorded with the collaboration of David Barton Gym and LiveSmart. Now please select your answers. I want to set the goal to attend: 1. Number of weigh-ins 2. Number of visits at David Barton Gym 3. Number of LiveSmart events Please confirm your answers by clicking on the button below: I understand that if I do not meet my goal(s), I will not receive my Whole Foods gift card at the end of the challenge. Part 3: Reimbursement of your meals As mentioned in the introduction, 10 participants in this study will be randomly drawn to receive reimbursement of all their lunch meals over the 4 week period starting on April 1st and ending on April 28th. You will be reimbursed for a maximum of 20 meals and for up to $15 per meal ($300 value). In order to be reimbursed, you will need to save all your receipts and bring them to the last weigh-in on Tuesday, April 29th. Important: You will need to bring detailed receipts of your order with your name on it so please purchase your lunch with a credit card. The winners will be announced at the award ceremony one week later, on Tuesday, May 6th. The reimbursement will cover one, two or all three of the following lunch categories, depending on your choices below and on chance: Green Category G : all salads (including regular, kale and quinoa salads) or soups (including veggie and noodle soups) natural fruits or low-fat yogurt Page 4 of 11

5 water (spring or sparkling) Orange Category O : all sandwiches (including bagels, wraps, baguette, club and hot sandwiches) cereal bars, fruit bars or trail mix fruit juice Red Category R : all burgers, pizzas or fried foods (including French fries, Chicken wings and barbecue) all pastries (including cookies, cakes, muffins, donuts and croissants) soda We now would like to know which of these lunch categories you would like to be reimbursed for. You can be potentially reimbursed for one, two or all three of the lunch categories described above. - For instance, you may prefer to restrict the reimbursement to cover only one lunch category. In this case, you would not be reimbursed for an option belonging to any of the other two categories. These are the reimbursement options G, O and R. - Alternatively, you may prefer a reimbursement that covers all three categories. This is the reimbursement option GOR. - As an intermediate case, you may prefer to partially restrict the reimbursement to cover only two lunch categories. These are the reimbursement options GO, GR and OR. Therefore, there are 7 reimbursement options in total. The only difference between all 7 reimbursement options is the range of lunch items covered by the reimbursement. Otherwise, the reimbursement conditions are exactly the same: you will need to bring detailed receipts showing your name and the items you ordered at the last weigh-in and you will be reimbursed in cash on May, 6th in case you won. Notice however that being reimbursed only for a certain category of foods may give you an incentive to eat more of these foods and less of the foods not covered by the reimbursement. We now ask you to rank all 7 possibilities according to your preference. On your screen, all reimbursement options will appear listed in a random order. You will be asked to first select your favorite option(s), that is, the option(s) you wish to assign rank 1. You can select multiple options at a time if you are indifferent between these options. Once you have made your selection, you will be asked to rank the remaining options in the list, starting with your rank 2 option(s). Again, you can give rank 2 to multiple options if you are indifferent between them. The process stops once the list of options is empty and you assigned a rank to all of them. Simply click on the continue button once your first empty screen appears. The reimbursement option that will be assigned to you at the end of this survey will be randomly determined. However, the odds that you are assigned a given reimbursement option will depend on the ranking you provided. You will have a higher chance to obtain the options you ranked higher. If you are indifferent between several options, they will be selected with the same percentage chance. If you want to know more about the selection procedure, please click on the button at the bottom of this page once you have read the reminders below. Before providing your ranking, please take the time to review the instructions. Remember that: 1. You will be informed of the reimbursement option you were assigned after you finished completing this first survey. This information will be sent to you by During the month of April, you will need to save receipts of lunch items covered by your reimbursement option in order to be reimbursed. 3. You will learn if you are eligible for reimbursement on Tuesday, May 6th and you will be reimbursed in cash if you are one of the 10 winners. Page 5 of 11

6 At this point, if you have any question, please feel free to contact Severine Toussaert at Learn more about the selection procedure Selection Procedure To determine the reimbursement option you will receive, you will be entered in a lottery composed of 100 lottery tickets, each ticket giving right to one of the 7 reimbursement options. The number of lottery tickets corresponding to a given reimbursement option will depend on its rank: the higher the rank, the larger the number of lottery tickets. As a result, you will have a higher chance to receive the option you ranked first than the option you ranked second and so on. The number of lottery tickets corresponding to each rank is given in the table below: Rank Number of lottery tickets Total 100 For instance, you will receive the reimbursement option you ranked 3rd with a 20% chance and you will receive one of your Top 3 preferred options with an 85% chance. On the other hand, there is no chance that you will receive your least preferred option. Notice that since the chances of being assigned a given reimbursement option will depend on its rank, it is in your interest to assign a higher rank to the options you like better. What if you assigned the same rank to several options? For instance, suppose that you assigned rank 1 to 3 options and then assigned rank 2, 3, 4 and 5 to the remaining options. Then the system will pick at random among your top 3 options the option which is assigned 35, 30 and 20 lottery tickets respectively. Please take the time to review all lunch categories and reimbursement options. Lunch categories: Green Category G : all salads (including regular, kale and quinoa salads) or soups (including veggie and noodle soups) natural fruits or low-fat yogurt water (spring or sparkling) Orange Category O : all sandwiches (including bagels, wraps, baguette, club and hot sandwiches) cereal bars, fruit bars or trail mix fruit juice Page 6 of 11

7 Red Category R : all burgers, pizzas or fried foods (including French fries, Chicken wings and barbecue) all pastries (including cookies, cakes, muffins, donuts and croissants) soda Reimbursement options: "G", "O" and "R": cover only items from the Green, the Orange and the Red Category respectively. "GO", "GR" and "OR": cover items only from the Green & Orange, the Green & Red and the Orange & Red categories respectively. "GOR": covers items from all three lunch categories Green, Orange and Red. Please rank the 7 reimbursement options, starting with your most preferred option(s). Please select from the list the reimbursement option(s) you wish to assign rank 1: GR O OR G GO GOR R Please select from the list the reimbursement option(s) you wish to assign rank 2:» G» O» R» GO» GR» OR» GOR Please select from the list the reimbursement option(s) you wish to assign rank 3:» G» O» R» GO» GR» OR» GOR Page 7 of 11

8 Please select from the list the reimbursement option(s) you wish to assign rank 4:» G» O» R» GO» GR» OR» GOR Please select from the list the reimbursement option(s) you wish to assign rank 5» G» O» R» GO» GR» OR» GOR Please select from the list the reimbursement option(s) you wish to assign rank 6» G» O» R» GO» GR» OR» GOR Please select from the list the reimbursement option you wish to assign rank 7» G» O» R» GO» GR» OR» GOR You have ranked all the options! Please click on the continue button to answer the final set of questions. What do you usually have for lunch? I bring my own food. Page 8 of 11

9 I order delivery at my workplace. I buy take-out and eat at my workplace. I eat at a restaurant near my workplace. Other (please indicate below) What are the 3 restaurant places you order the most from? (You can leave some entries blank) Restaurant 1 Restaurant 2 Restaurant 3 Since the beginning of the year, how often did you have each of the following options for lunch? Never Quite often All the time Salad Soup Cold Sandwich Hot sandwich Burger Pizza Fried food Fruit Yogurt Cereal bar or trail mix Pastry On a scale from 1 to 7, how healthy do you consider each of the following options? (1 = not healthy at all; 7 = extremely healthy) Page 9 of 11

10 healthy) Salad Soup Cold sandwich Hot sandwich Burger Pizza Fried food Fruit Yogurt Cereal bar or trail mix Pastry On a scale from 1 to 7, how tempting do you consider each of the following options? (1 = not tempting at all; 7 = extremely tempting) Salad Soup Cold sandwich Hot sandwich Burger Pizza Fried food Fruit Yogurt Cereal bar or trail mix Pastry What are the 5 food items you crave the most? (Indicate the brand if necessary. You can leave some entries blank.) Food item 1 Food item 2 Food item 3 Food item 4 Food item 5 Do you have any of the following dietary restrictions? (Please check all that applies) Gluten-free Vegetarian Vegan Dairy-free Page 10 of 11

11 Low sodium Kosher Halaal Organic Other (please indicate below) Do you read nutritional information on packages? Yes No What kind of information do you pay attention to? (Please check all that applies) Calorie content Fat content Carbohydrates content Protein content Cholesterol content Other (please indicate below) This is the end of this first survey! In order to validate your answers, do not forget to click on the exit button at the bottom of this screen. Next Steps: - In the coming hours, check your s! You will be informed of the reimbursement option you were assigned. - During the month of April, save your lunch receipts! You will be asked to bring them at the last weigh-in on Tuesday, April 29th. - You will fill out a second survey during the last week of the challenge so please remember your personal ID number. Page 11 of 11

12 8/19/14 8:55 AM Default Question Block Welcome back! This is the second and last survey of this study. You will have until Tuesday, May 6th at 11am to complete this second survey. This second survey should take between 10 and 15 minutes to complete. As for the first survey, feel free to leave and return to the questions when needed. Your answers will be automatically saved. Remember that you will receive a $20 Whole Foods gift card if you complete this second survey AND you fulfilled the goals that you set for yourself during the first survey. If you have any questions during this second survey, please contact Severine Toussaert at st1445@nyu.edu. Please enter below the personal ID number that was sent to you with the first survey link: What is your NYU status? (This is for reimbursement purposes) I am an employee. I am a student. Do you plan to attend the award ceremony on Monday, May 12th at David Barton Gym? Yes No Maybe At the start of the challenge, how overweight did you consider yourself? (1 = My weight was perfectly normal; 7 = I was extremely overweight) Did you lose weight during the challenge? Yes No Relative to your expectations at the start of the program, would you say that you lost: much less weight than expected slightly less weight than expected about as much weight as expected Page 1 of 10

13 8/19/14 8:55 AM slightly more weight than expected much more weight than expected Approximatively, what percentage of your initial weight loss goal did you achieve? (Please enter a number between 0 and 100 in the box below - if you lost more than you initial goal, please enter 100). What would you say was the highest impediment to achieving your goal? (please select all that applies) Failure to go to the weigh-ins Lack of physical exercise Too much snacking Eating out too often Other Including weigh-ins, how many times did you weigh yourself over the 8 week challenge? At least once a day Several times a week Once a week Once or twice a month Other Did you use the weight booklet that was distributed to you? Yes No Did you go to all the weigh-ins you initially intended to go to? Yes No For the weigh-in(s) you missed, please indicate your main reason: I had a time conflict. I forgot about the time or date. The weather discouraged me from leaving my building. I was anxious about learning my weight. Other On a scale from 1 to 7, to what extent do you agree with the following statements? (1 = strongly disagree; 7 = strongly agree) The weigh-ins were scheduled at inconvenient times Page 2 of 10

14 8/19/14 8:55 AM The weigh-ins were a great commitment to stay on track. The weigh-ins were a source of stress and anxiety. The weigh-ins felt awkward and uncomfortable. How many times did you exercise over the 8 week challenge? (If you exercised a certain number of times each week, please multiply this number by 8). During the 8 week challenge, would you say that you exercised: much more than you initially intended slightly more than you initially intended about as much as you initially intended slightly less than you initially intended much less than you initially intended If you missed a LiveSmart event you had signed up for, please indicate your main reason: I had a time conflict. I forgot about the time and date. The weather discouraged me from leaving my building. I did not find someone to join me. Other During the first survey, you could choose to receive your $20 Whole Foods gift card conditional on achieving a goal. Did you decide to set a goal? Yes No Overall, are you happy with the target goal you chose? Yes, this was a motivating but achievable target goal. No, the target goal was harder to achieve than I initially thought. No, I wished I had chosen a somewhat more challenging target goal. Other. Indicate: Why did you decide not to set a goal? I was not interested in achieving any of the listed goals but I would have been interested in setting other goals. I was afraid of not achieving a pre-imposed target goal, although this could have been potentially motivating. I did not see the purpose of setting goals since I could receive the $20 gift card without choosing a goal. Page 3 of 10

15 8/19/14 8:55 AM What are your thoughts on the reimbursement program? Were you interested in being reimbursed for your lunch meals? Did you find the program confusing? Please explain. The next questions are related to the ranking you provided of the different reimbursement options. Remember that each option covered either one, two or all lunch categories among Green (salads, soups, fruits, yogurt, water), Orange (hot and cold sandwiches, cereal and fruit bars, trail mix, juices) and Red (burgers, pizza, fried food, pastries, sodas). As a reminder, you assigned the following ranking to the options: G: ${e://field/order_g} O: ${e://field/order_o} R: ${e://field/order_r} GO: ${e://field/order_go} GR: ${e://field/order_gr} OR: ${e://field/order_or} GOR: ${e://field/order_gor} How did you form your ranking? Please try to be as detailed as possible: 1. Explain how you determined your top 3 options and describe how they compare. 2. If you were indifferent between several options, explain why. You did not assign rank 1 to the reimbursement option that covered all lunch categories (option GOR). Explain why you preferred a reimbursement option that covers fewer lunch categories. You assigned rank 1 to the reimbursement option that covered all lunch categories (option GOR). Explain why you preferred the reimbursement option that covers all lunch categories. At the time you filled out the first survey, what percentage of the time did you think you would purchase items from category G, O and R if you were to receive option GOR? (Please exclude times where you expected to bring your own lunch or eat foods outside of these categories. Your answers should sum to 100.) Page 4 of 10

16 8/19/14 8:55 AM G 0 O 0 R 0 Total: 0 What if you were to receive: Option GO? (Please exclude times where you expected to bring your own lunch or eat foods outside of these categories. Your answers should sum to 100.) G 0 O 0 Total: 0 Option GR? (Please exclude times where you expected to bring your own lunch or eat foods outside of these categories. Your answers should sum to 100.) G 0 R 0 Total: 0 Option OR? ((Please exclude times where you expected to bring your own lunch or eat foods outside of these categories. Your answers should sum to 100.) O R Total: Do you think the reimbursement program gave you incentives to eat more healthy? No, I ate the same type of food as I usually do. Yes, a little. I was a bit more careful about my food choices. Yes, a lot. I felt much more committed to eating healthy. Before the reimbursement program was in place, how frequently did you bring your own lunch? Page 5 of 10

17 8/19/14 8:55 AM Never Quite frequenly All the time I brought my own lunch: During the reimbursement program, how frequently did you bring your own lunch? Never Quite frequently All the time I brought my own lunch: Ideally, indicate how frequently you think you should consume each of the following food items: Never Quite frequently All the time Salad Soup Cold sandwich Hot sandwich Burger Pizza Fried food Fruit Yogurt Cereal bar or trail mix Pastry Page 6 of 10

18 8/19/14 8:55 AM Suppose you could eat anything you want without gaining a single pound and without any consequences for your health. How frequently would you eat each of the following food items? Never Quite frequently All the time Salad Soup Cold sandwich Hot sandwich Burger Pizza Fried food Fruit Yogurt Cereal bar or trail mix Pastry You may consider certain foods to be tempting in the sense that (1) you find them hard to resist; (2) but you know that you should avoid them. On a scale from 1 to 7, please indicate how tempting you find each of the following food items (1 = not tempting at all, 7 = extremely tempting): Salad Soup Cold sandwich Hot sandwich Burger Pizza Fried food Fruit Page 7 of 10

19 8/19/14 8:55 AM Fruit Yogurt Cereal bar or trail mix Pastry In the future, would you be interested in benefiting from a program that subsidizes healthy meals? Yes No If you brought less than 20 receipts, please indicate the main reason(s): I forgot to ask for the receipt on one or several occasions. I lost one or several receipts. I ordered at places which were not giving out detailed receipts. I was frustrated with eating the only things I could be reimbursed for. I thought it was not worth the effort or the investment given that only 10% of respondents would be reimbursed. Other. Indicate: What suggestions would you make in order to improve the LoseSmart program? Yes No Propose more weigh-in dates Render more weigh-in dates compulsory Give more feedback about my performance compared to others Change the prizes Offer more nutrition events and sport classes One survey respondent will be drawn at random to receive one additional Whole Foods gift card of an amount between $98 and $110. If you are selected, the gift card will be sent to you electronically either today or in the coming weeks. For each possible amount X below, we now would like to know whether you would prefer to receive: - a $100 gift card today or - a $X gift card in one week. There will be 5 questions in total, corresponding to 5 different values of X. Later in the survey we will ask you to answer a second block of 5 questions; If you are the winner of the gift card, one of your 10 answers will be selected at random to determine the amount on the card and the date at which you will receive it. For instance, suppose that the question selected is: "Would you prefer to receive a $100 gift card today or a $105 gift card in one week?". - If you say that you prefer to receive the $105 gift card in one week, then you will receive a gift card of $105 in exactly 7 days. - If you say that you prefer to receive the $100 gift card today, then you will receive a gift card of $100 in the coming hours. Now please answer the first block of questions: Page 8 of 10

20 8/19/14 8:55 AM I would prefer to: X = $98 X = $102 X = $105 X = $108 X = $110 Receive a $100 gift card today Receive a $X gift card in one week Suppose you win 10 certificates, each of which can be used (once) to receive a dream restaurant night. On each such night, you and a companion will get the best table and an unlimited budget for food and drink at a restaurant of your choosing. There will be no cost to you: all payments, including gratuities, come as part of the prize. The certificates are available for immediate use, starting tonight, and there is an absolute guarantee that they will be honored by any restaurant you select if they are used within a two-year window. If they are not used up within this two-year period, however, any that remain will be valueless. The questions below concern how many of the certificates you would ideally like to use in each year, how tempted you would be to depart from this ideal, and what you expect you would do in practice: (a) From your current perspective, how many of the 10 certificates would you ideally like to use in year 1 as opposed to year 2? (b) Some people might be tempted to depart from their ideal allocation in (a). Which of the following best describes you? I would be strongly/somewhat tempted to keep more certificates in year 2 than would be ideal. I would be strongly/somewhat tempted to keep more certificates in year 1 than would be ideal. I would have no temptation in either direction. (c) If you were to give in to your temptation of keeping more certificates in year 1, how many certificates do you think you would use in year 1 as opposed to year 2? (c) If you were to give in to your temptation of keeping more certificates in year 2, how many certificates do you think you would use in year 1 as opposed to year 2? (d) Based on your most accurate forecast of how you think you would actually behave, how many of the nights would you end up using in year 1 as opposed to year 2? (e) Suppose you had the option to restrict the number of certificates for use in year 2. How many of the certificates would you restrict? Please enter a number between 0 (no restriction) and 10 (all certificates used in year 2). (e) Suppose you had the option to restrict the number of certificates for use in year 1. How many of the certificates would you restrict? Please enter a number between 0 (no restriction) and 10 (all certificates used in year 1). Page 9 of 10

21 8/19/14 8:55 AM This is the second block of questions. Remember that if you are selected to receive the additional Whole Foods gift card, your answer to only one question either of the first block or of the second block will selected in order to determine the amount on the card and the date at which you will receive it. For each possible amount X below, we now would like to know whether you would prefer to receive: - a $100 gift card in 4 weeks or - a $X gift card in 5 weeks Please select an answer for each of the 5 possibilities. I would prefer to: X = $98 X = $102 X = $105 X = $108 X = $110 Receive a $100 gift card in 4 weeks Receive a $X gift card in 5 weeks This is the end of the study: thank you for participating! You will receive a $20 Whole Foods gift card (provided you met your target goal(s)) at the award ceremony on Monday, May 12th. If you were selected to receive the additional Whole Foods gift card of a value between $98 and $110, you will be informed of it in a separate . The list of winners for the reimbursement program will be announced at the award ceremony and will be reimbursed for the valid receipts they brought during the last weigh-in. Due to administrative constraints, the reimbursement will not be made in cash as initially announced but through a direct deposit or by check. We apologize for this change. We hope to see you at the award ceremony! In the meantime, feel free to contact Séverine Toussaert at st1445@nyu.edu for any questions. Page 10 of 10