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Dress for Success: Can Just Dressing for the Gym Help Going to the Gym?

NCT02411045 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1310

Last updated 2015-09-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

In this study, the investigators ask the question: can incentivizing smaller, less costly behaviors-like just getting yourself dressed to go to the gym-be more effective (and palatable) than incentivizing the larger goal directly?

Conditions

  • Healthy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Take and send a selfie

Direction to take and send a selfie.

BEHAVIORAL

Workout gears

Direction to wear workout gears.

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise

Direction to complete a 30 minute workout.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

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

  • Bradford Tuckfield · University of Pennsylvania

  • Katherine Barasz · HBS

  • Leslie K. John, Ph.D. · HBS

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-04-30
Primary Completion
2015-07-31
Completion
2015-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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