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Project Step: Evaluating Deposit Contracts and Daily Feedback to Promote Walking in Overweight and Obese Adults

NCT03566277 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2018-06-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test whether deposit contracts, wherein individuals invest their own money with the study to serve as the incentive, with or without daily feedback about progress help individuals to increase step counts and more often meet a step goal compared to self-monitoring only.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Self-monitoring

Participants will have access to a wrist-worn activity monitor and have a daily step goal

BEHAVIORAL

Incentives

Participants will have a deposit contract, wherein they will lose money if a goal is not reached, or double their money if a goal is reached

BEHAVIORAL

Feedback

Participants will receive text message feedback each day about progress towards their goal

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Psi Chi

    collaborator OTHER

  • Qualtrics

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • American College of Sports Medicine

    collaborator OTHER

  • Drexel University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-12-01
Primary Completion
2017-08-01
Completion
2017-08-08

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