NCT01335880

Helping People to Exercise Regularly

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 117 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Heart Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Coupons for use within the next week	Participants who attend an exercise class will receive a coupon for a free exercise class to be used within the next week.
BEHAVIORAL	Coupons for use within the next 3 months	Participants who attend an exercise class will receive a coupon to attend an exercise class for free within the next 3 months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-04-01
• Primary completion: 2012-07-01
• Completion: 2012-07-01
• First posted: 2011-04-14
• Last updated: 2012-10-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States