NCT02030132

Way to Be Active V (Framing vs. Forgiveness)

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

• 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	Feedback compared to 75th percentile
BEHAVIORAL	Forgiveness
BEHAVIORAL	Financial Incentive	For the first three months of the study, a weekly lottery will be held. Teams whose average daily step count for that week is ≥ 7000 will be eligible to collect their lottery winnings. 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.
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: 2014-10-01
• Completion: 2014-10-01
• First posted: 2014-01-08
• Last updated: 2017-03-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States