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Messages and Plans to Increase Gym Utilization

NCT02899559 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1000

Last updated 2017-10-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This primary object of this study is to test to the hypothesis that the both the nudge and boost messages will increase short term gym utilization relative to the control condition but that only the boost message will increase long-term gym utilization.

Non-technical summary: College students will receive one of three messages about exercise. Their card swipe data as a measure of gym utilization will be tracked as an assessment of the effect of those messages.

Conditions

  • Body Weight

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Message

Participants will receive one of three messages at the end of a survey, two of which are experimental messages and one of which is a control message.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Katherine Milkman, PhD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-09-30
Primary Completion
2017-03-31
Completion
2017-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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