NCT04874415

Behavioral Economics for Activity Motivation in Adolescents (BEAM)

Behavioral Economics for Activity Motivation in Adolescents and Young Adults With Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 22 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

There is an urgent need to engineer targeted physical activity interventions that are effective and scalable for obese adolescents and young adults (AYA) with type 2 diabetes (T2D), who often have very low levels of physical activity. The BEAM Trial is a mobile health (mHealth) intervention that uses behavioral economic-informed financial incentives and text messaging to promote physical activity in AYA with T2D and prediabetes.

Detailed description

Some secondary outcome measures from the protocol were inadvertently left out when creating the registration and have been added with the results.

Conditions

• Type 2 Diabetes
• PreDiabetes
• Insulin Resistance
• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	1RLD	1RLD=One text per day, ramped goal, loss incentive, daily goal time period
BEHAVIORAL	1RLW	1RLW=One text per day, ramped goal, loss incentive, weekly goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	1RGD	1RGD=One text per day, ramped goal, gain incentive, daily goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	1RGW	One text per day, ramped goal, gain incentive, weekly goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	2RLD	Two texts per day, ramped goal, loss incentive, daily goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	2RLW	Two texts per day, ramped goal, loss incentive, weekly goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	2RGD	Two texts per day, ramped goal, gain incentive, daily goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	2RGW	Two texts per day, ramped goal, gain incentive, weekly goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	1FLD	One text per day, fixed goal, loss incentive, daily weekly goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	1FLW	One text per day, fixed goal, loss incentive, weekly goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	1FGD	One text per day, fixed goal, gain incentive, daily goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	1FGW	One text per day, fixed goal, gain incentive, weekly goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	2FLD	Two texts per day, fixed goal, loss incentive, daily goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	2FLW	Two texts per day, fixed goal, loss incentive, weekly goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	2FGD	Two texts per day, fixed goal, gain incentive, daily goal time period.
BEHAVIORAL	2FGW	Two texts per day, fixed goal, gain incentive, weekly goal time period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-11-16
• Primary completion: 2024-10-04
• Completion: 2024-10-04
• First posted: 2021-05-05
• Last updated: 2025-10-28
• Results posted: 2025-10-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States