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Way to Be Active IV (Framing vs Incentives)

NCT02030080 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 288

Last updated 2017-12-29

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Summary

Employers are increasingly looking for opportunities to motivate sedentary employees to become more physically active. Workplace walking programs have had mixed success and typically show most improvement among participants that are already fairly active at a baseline. The goal of this study is to determine whether a financial incentive program can motivate sedentary employees to increase the number of steps they walk per day to meet a minimum threshold.

The primary outcome measure is the proportion of days a minimum activity of 7000 steps or more is achieved. Outcomes will be assessed each week for 3 months using incentives followed by 3 months of follow-up without incentives. Secondary outcomes will include the average steps walked per day.

Conditions

  • Sedentary Lifestyle

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Financial incentives

BEHAVIORAL

Teams

BEHAVIORAL

Framing of feedback

BEHAVIORAL

Daily Feedback

Participants will be given daily feedback on whether or not they walked 7000 steps or more the day before.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Mitesh Patel, MD, MBA · University of Pennsylvania

  • Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-09-30
Completion
2014-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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