NCT01184040

Extending Contingency Management's Benefits With Progressively Increasing Variable Interval Prize Reinforcement

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 61 (actual)
• Sponsor: UConn Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Contingency Management (CM) is highly effective in promoting recovery from substance use disorders, but benefits tend to attenuate over time when CM is discontinued. Identifying modifications of CM delivery that can extend its benefits is an important goal. The goal of this study is to evaluate the use of reinforcements to increase physical activity, specifically walking. The study provides a standard CM intervention to promote walking for three weeks. After three weeks, a progressively increasing variable interval schedule of reinforcement will be evaluated for increasing the durability of effects of the initial CM intervention. We hypothesize that Variable Interval Prize Contingency Management will result in greater adherence to a walking goal of 10,000 steps per day at Week 15 and Week 24 compared to the Control Condition.

Conditions

• Exercise
• Addictive Behaviors

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	VIP CM	Participants will receive progressively increasing CM for walking 10,000 steps per day over 4 days prior to visit as verified by the pedometer.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-05-01
• Primary completion: 2012-03-01
• Completion: 2012-03-01
• First posted: 2010-08-18
• Last updated: 2019-04-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States