Incentives for Moving

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Sedentary Lifestyle; Obesity; General Well-being

Treatments: Behavioral: Incentives for walkstation usage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01278680

Walkstation3

Details and patient eligibility

About

Employees of Blue Shield of California (BSC) will be recruited to participate to regularly use Walkstations. Some participants will be randomly assigned to a "hold out" control condition and the remainder will be assigned to one of two experimental treatments: Personal Incentive vs. Charitable Incentive. In the Personal Incentive condition people will be paid $3 for every completed Walkstation session, whereas for participants in the Charitable Incentive condition $3 will be donated to a specific charity. The incentives will operate for approximately 45 days and then for an additional 45 days participants in the two experimental conditions will have access to the Walkstations. Participants in the hold out control condition will begin using the Walkstations after the initial 90 day period.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must pass the ParQ

Exclusion criteria

• Ineligible if person did not pass ParQ AND did not provide doctor's note authorizing their participation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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0 participants in 3 patient groups

Hold-out control

No Intervention group

Description:

Hold-out control: participants will be asked to refrain from using the walkstations for the duration of the study (90 days).

Personal incentive

Active Comparator group

Description:

Personal incentive: Participants will receive $3 for each time they use the walkstation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Incentives for walkstation usage

Charitable incentive

Experimental group

Description:

Charitable incentive: $3 will be donated to charity every time the participant uses the walkstation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Incentives for walkstation usage