Helping People to Exercise Regularly

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity; Heart Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Coupons for use within the next week; Behavioral: Coupons for use within the next 3 months

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01335880

HS10-385

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study tests two different incentive mechanisms to induce members of a particular urban senior center to attend more exercise classes. Coupons for future use are given to participants who attend an exercise class and will be redeemable within either a one week or three month time period, depending on which experimental group the participant is assigned to. Frequency of exercise class attendance at the end of 2 months will be the primary outcome.

Enrollment: 117 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 55 years or older
• Member of the Philadelphia Senior Center

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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117 participants in 2 patient groups

Promotion I

Active Comparator group

Description:

Three month time horizon

Treatment:

Behavioral: Coupons for use within the next 3 months

Promotion II

Experimental group

Description:

One week time horizon

Treatment:

Behavioral: Coupons for use within the next week