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Tying Devices as a Means of Increasing Exercise

NCT01410812 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 226

Last updated 2018-12-19

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Summary

The investigators propose that healthy behaviors such as exercise could be increased through the use of tying devices - mechanisms that force a coupling of addictive activities (listening to the next chapter of a page-turner novel) with engagement in a healthy behavior (exercise).

Conditions

  • Healthy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Control

Receive weekly emails asking participants about their exercise and receive cash.

BEHAVIORAL

Suggested Tying Intervention

Participants receive 4 iTunes audio novels for their own iPods to listen to only at the gym

BEHAVIORAL

Forced Tying Intervention

Participants receive cash and also 4 iTunes audio novels for a loaned iPod accessible only at the gym to listen to only at the gym.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Katherine L. Milkman, Ph.D. · University of Pennsylvania

  • Julia A Minson · University of Pennsylvania

  • Kevin G.M. Volpp, MD, Ph.D. · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-09-30
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2012-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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