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Way to Be Active IV (Framing vs Incentives)

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University of Pennsylvania

Status

Completed

Conditions

Sedentary Lifestyle

Treatments

Behavioral: Financial incentives
Behavioral: Teams
Behavioral: Framing of feedback
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

288 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 100 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnant or lactating
  • Currently participating in another physical activity study

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

288 participants in 4 patient groups

Feedback 50th Percentile
Active Comparator group
Description:
At the end of each week, participants will be told the average daily step count for their team for the previous week. They will also be told the average for the 50th percentile in their arm.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Teams
Behavioral: Daily Feedback
Feedback 75th Percentile
Experimental group
Description:
At the end of each week, participants will be told the average daily step count for their team for the previous week. They will also be told the average for the 75th percentile in their arm.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Framing of feedback
Behavioral: Teams
Behavioral: Daily Feedback
Feedback 50th Percentile + Lottery
Experimental group
Description:
At the end of each week, participants will be told the average daily step count for their team for the previous week. They will also be told the average for the 50th percentile in their arm. If their team's average daily step count is ≥ 7000 steps, they'll be eligible to collect winnings from a weekly lottery. Teams whose average daily step count is less than 7000 will receive messages about how much they would have won had the team met its goal.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Financial incentives
Behavioral: Teams
Behavioral: Daily Feedback
Feedback 75th Percentile + Lottery
Experimental group
Description:
At the end of each week, participants will be told the average daily step count for their team for the previous week. They will also be told the average for the 75th percentile in their arm. If their team's average daily step count is ≥ 7000 steps, they'll be eligible to collect winnings from a weekly lottery. Teams whose average daily step count is less than 7000 will receive messages about how much they would have won had the team met its goal.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Framing of feedback
Behavioral: Financial incentives
Behavioral: Teams
Behavioral: Daily Feedback

Trial contacts and locations

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