Effects of a Minimal-Contact Lifestyle Intervention on Physical Activity, Diet, and Body Weight (STEP)

University of Tennessee

Status: Completed

Conditions: Weight Loss

Treatments: Behavioral: Standard of Care; Behavioral: Daily step goal financial incentive

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02008071

UTK-123

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial, to determine whether providing financial incentives for meeting daily step goals (a) increases the daily step counts of participants, (b) increases compliance with the overall program (including diet recommendations), and (c) increases weight loss.

Enrollment: 57 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• required to be able to read.
• required to have access to a computer.
• required to have a body mass index between 27 and 45 kg.m-2.
• required to take fewer than 7,000 steps per day at baseline (as determined by a pedometer, averaged across 4-7 days).

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals who report having an injury or physical limitation that renders them unable to walk ¼ mile without difficulty.
• Uncontrolled cardiovascular or metabolic condition determined by health history questionnaire.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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57 participants in 2 patient groups

Daily step goal financial incentive

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Daily step goal financial incentive

Control, Standard of Care

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard of Care