NCT02030080

Way to Be Active IV (Framing vs Incentives)

A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Economic Interventions to Improve Physical Activities: Framing vs Incentives

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 288 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Sedentary Lifestyle

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Financial incentives
BEHAVIORAL	Teams
BEHAVIORAL	Framing of feedback
BEHAVIORAL	Daily Feedback	Participants will be given daily feedback on whether or not they walked 7000 steps or more the day before.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-09-01
• Completion: 2014-09-01
• First posted: 2014-01-08
• Last updated: 2017-12-29
• Results posted: 2017-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States