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Way to Be Active III (Framing Incentives)

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University of Pennsylvania

Status

Completed

Conditions

Sedentary Lifestyle

Treatments

Behavioral: Financial Incentives
Behavioral: Daily feedback

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
NIH

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Employers are increasingly looking for opportunities to motivate sedentary employees to become more physically active. Workplace walking programs have had mixed success and typically show most improvement among participants that are already fairly active at a baseline. The goal of this study is to determine whether a financial incentive program can motivate sedentary employees to increase the number of steps they walk per day to meet a minimum threshold.

The primary outcome measure is the proportion of days a minimum activity of 7000 steps or more is achieved. Outcomes will be assessed each week for 3 months using incentives followed by 3 months of follow-up without incentives. Secondary outcomes will include the average steps walked per day.

Enrollment

281 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 100 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  1. Age greater than 18.
  2. Participant will need an iPhone or Android smartphone to be able to use the Moves App for tracking steps

Exclusion criteria

  1. A score of "high" on the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) activity level scale
  2. BMI less than 27
  3. Pregnant or lactating
  4. Participation in another physical activity study

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

281 participants in 4 patient groups

Control
Active Comparator group
Description:
The participant will receive either an email or text message (based on the participant's preference) stating whether the participant achieved their goal for the prior day.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Daily feedback
Gain Framing
Experimental group
Description:
Participants will be told that they will earn money for each day they walk at least 7000 steps. Each participant will receive either an email or text message (based on the participant's preference) stating whether or not he/she achieved the goal for the prior day and can collect the earnings. Non-adherent participants will receive messages about how much they would have earned had they met their target step goal.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Daily feedback
Behavioral: Financial Incentives
Loss Framing
Experimental group
Description:
The participants will be told that their account has been credited a certain amount of money for the upcoming 30 days. However, for each day they do not meet their goal of at least 7000 steps, they will lose a small portion of that money. The participant will receive either an email or text message (based on the participant's preference) stating whether the participant achieved the goal for the prior day. Non-adherent participants will receive messages about how much the participant would have kept had they met the target step goal.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Daily feedback
Behavioral: Financial Incentives
Daily Lottery
Experimental group
Description:
Each participant will be entered into a lottery daily, but participants will only be eligible to collect their winnings if they walked at least 7000 steps the day before. Participants will receive either an email or text message (based on the participant's preference) stating whether or not they won the lottery and if they met their target step goal. If both occur, the participant will be told how much money he or she won. Non-adherent participants will receive messages about how much they would have won had they met the target step goal.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Daily feedback
Behavioral: Financial Incentives

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