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Schedule Intervention to Increase Sustainable Walking Activity in Midlife Working Adults

NCT03272438 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 149

Last updated 2025-02-17

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Summary

While people commonly understand that regular physical exercise conveys many health benefits, only 20% of U.S. adults take regular exercise and they have difficulty maintaining new healthy behaviors. The goal of this study is to use a planning intervention to help establish and maintain a daily step regimen in working midlife adults. The investigators will ask participants to plan when, where, and how to act on a daily walking goal in conjunction with a scheduling intervention to increase the chances that they will maintain this new regimen. The effectiveness of three different scheduling interventions will be compared.

Conditions

  • Physical Activity

Interventions

DEVICE

Accelerometer

Participants use an accelerometer to monitor their steps activity

BEHAVIORAL

Step goal

Participants are given a daily step goal to aim for

BEHAVIORAL

Consistent contexts

Participants plan to take steps in contexts that are similar from day to day

BEHAVIORAL

Inconsistent contexts

Participants plan to take steps in contexts that vary from day to day

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Brandeis University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jane Ebert, PhD · Brandeis University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-04-13
Primary Completion
2019-07-24
Completion
2019-07-24

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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