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Incentive Disbursement Pattern

NCT02154256 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3519

Last updated 2016-09-27

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Summary

This study will be a three-arm randomized, controlled trial that the investigators will run in 2014 with approximately 4,000 users of an app called Achievemint. AchieveMint rewards users with points (which can be redeemed for prizes) for every step they take. The investigators will be testing three different point-based programs designed to encourage users to build exercise habits over the course of a month: stable incentives, increasing incentives, and decreasing incentives. After the investigators' month-long intervention period, the investigators will observe users' step counts during a month-long follow-up period to test which of the investigators' habit-building programs leaves users with the best exercise habits (or the highest step counts) after they conclude.

The time frame of observation will be 8 months.

Conditions

  • Exercise

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Increasing incentives

Offer incentives that increase over time.

BEHAVIORAL

Decreasing incentives

offer incentives that decrease over time

BEHAVIORAL

stable incentives

offer incentives that are stable over time, but higher than usual care

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Katherine L Milkman, PhD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-06-30
Primary Completion
2014-08-31
Completion
2014-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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