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Creating Exercise Habits Through Incentives for Routines

NCT02346799 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2702

Last updated 2016-08-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether healthy habits can be formed more effectively when people are rewarded for repeated engagement in a given healthy behavior at a specific, routinized time each day rather than at any time.

Conditions

  • Body Weight

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Workout Window Reminders

Participants will receive emails at prespecified times reminding them to exercise, either during a specific two hour window or at any time during the day.

BEHAVIORAL

Individual Workout Incentive Payment

Participants will be paid $3 or $7 for each workout completed during the appropriate times.

BEHAVIORAL

Lump Incentive Payments

Participants will receive $20 payments for completing post treatment survey.

BEHAVIORAL

Partner Assignment

Participants will be required to have same "workout window" as partners.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Katherine L Milkman, PhD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-02-29
Completion
2016-02-29

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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