Procedures
RECRUITMENT, STAGGERED
To facilitate fieldwork, recruitment was staggered across three cohorts of employees from 2–3 hospitals each, between January 2018 and November 2019. Participants were compensated with gifts valued between $100 and $200. Institutional review boards at Sutter Health and the University of California, San Francisco, approved all procedures.At the baseline and follow-up assessments, demographics and dietary measures were collected in-person or remotely using REDCap. At baseline, trained staff collected anthropometric measures (height, weight and waist circumference) in private locations at the employee’s work site. Dietary measures collected after the COVID-19 closure were conducted exclusively online, although 86 % (The retention rate was 90·7 % (
Participant flow through the trial of SSB sales ban. SSB, sugar-sweetened beverage