The REGISTRY OF WEIGHT AND RELATED DISORDERS (REWARD) Project is designed to collect data on weight, the health effects of overweight and obesity, strategies for weight management and physician approaches to obesity treatment. The REWARD Project will include patients recruited by physicians and followed through self-administered questionnaires. Baseline data are collected in hard copy at enrollment. For follow-up, participants submit data three, twelve, twenty-four and thirty-six months after baseline. Participants choose from two media types, hard copy forms or password-protected web site, as methods for follow-up data submission. Prospective and retrospective postcards remind participants to submit follow-up data. All data are stored electronically and downloaded into a relational ORACLE-based central database.
The REWARD database will maintain longitudinal data on cohorts of participants collected across a variety of physician practice types, managed care and employer settings. The establishment of this web-based data repository will permit scientific query of data to examine the relative impact of obesity on comorbid conditions, track the success of various weight management strategies, examine patterns of interventions and address emerging issues in the field of obesity. It will also allow for the efficient communication and dissemination of aggregate data to physicians and patients. September 25, 2000 marked the national launch of REWARD in the United States. It is the first registry of its kind for the collection of longitudinal epidemiologic data.
See www.rewardproject.orgLearning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, the participant will be able to: ·Describe the methods and innovative information technologies used for the collection of patient-centered data. ·Understand how technologies were applied to obesity research to improve data collection.
Keywords: Data Collection, New Technology
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