Way to Be Active I (Teams)

NCT02001194 | Completed Results

• 1 other identifier: 819101
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 304
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief 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. Our primary outcome measure is the proportion of days a minimum activity of 7000 steps or more is achieved. We will assess outcomes 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 Employees

Keywords

Sedentary; Behavioral Economic Intervention; Team Studies; Financial Incentives; Workplace Wellness; Team Incentives

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Proportion of Days a Minimum Activity of 7000 Steps or More is Achieved

  Our primary outcome measure is the proportion of days a minimum activity of 7000 steps or more is achieved. We will assess outcomes for 3 months (13 weeks) with the interventions and 3 months (13 weeks) without intervention during the follow-up period. We will use all available data and treat missing as true missing data points. Secondary outcomes will include the average steps walked per day.

  End of study- 6 months of after enrollment

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Average Number of Steps Per Day During Intervention

  End of study- 6 months after enrollment

Study Arms (4)

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Participants receive either an email or text message daily (based on the participant's preference) stating whether the participant achieved the 7000 step goal during the previous day. Each participant will also be notified as to how many of their teammates reached the goal the previous day. Control Arm will receive no financial incentive.

Individual

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants receive either an email or text message daily (based on the participant's preference) stating whether the participant achieved the 7000 step goal during the previous day. Each participant will also be notified as to how many of their teammates reached the goal the previous day. Every day one team from the arm will be chosen at random as the winning team. Each participant on the winning team receives $50 if that participant met the step goal during the prior day.

Behavioral: Individual Incentives

Team

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants receive either an email or text message daily (based on the participant's preference) stating whether the participant achieved the 7000 step goal during the previous day. Each participant will also be notified as to how many of their teammates reached the goal the previous day. Every day one team from the arm will be chosen at random as the winning team. Each participant on the winning team receives $50 only if all four team members met the step goal during the prior day.

Behavioral: Team Incentives

Individual Plus Team

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants receive either an email or text message daily (based on the participant's preference) stating whether the participant achieved the 7000 step goal during the previous day. Each participant will also be notified as to how many of their teammates reached the goal the previous day. Every day one team from the arm will be chosen at random as the winning team. Each participant on the winning team receives $20 if the participant met the step goal during the prior day the participants met their own goal. Each participant will also receive an additional $10 for every one of the other three team members that also met the goal.

Behavioral: Individual plus Team Incentives

Interventions

Individual Incentives BEHAVIORAL

Individual

Team Incentives BEHAVIORAL

Team

Individual plus Team Incentives BEHAVIORAL

Individual Plus Team

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 100 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• \. We will use a minimum age of 18 to ensure all individuals are legally able to consent.
• \. Participant will need an iPhone or Android smartphone to be able to use the Moves App for tracking steps

You may not qualify if:

• Conditions that would make participation infeasible: 1a. Inability to consent 1b. Illiteracy and/or inability to speak, read, and write English 1c. Participation in another research study 2. Conditions that would make participation unsafe: 2a. Current treatment for drug or alcohol use 2b. Consumption of at least 5 alcoholic drinks per day 2c. Myocardial infarction or stroke within the past 6 months 2d. Current addiction to prescription medicines or street drugs 2e. Serious psychiatric diagnoses (e.g., severe major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia) 2f. Pregnant or currently breastfeeding 2g. Metastatic cancer 2h. Unstable medical conditions that would likely prevent the participant from completing the study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Pennsylvania: lead
• National Institute on Aging (NIA): collaborator

Related Publications (1)

• Patel MS, Asch DA, Rosin R, Small DS, Bellamy SL, Eberbach K, Walters KJ, Haff N, Lee SM, Wesby L, Hoffer K, Shuttleworth D, Taylor DH, Hilbert V, Zhu J, Yang L, Wang X, Volpp KG. Individual Versus Team-Based Financial Incentives to Increase Physical Activity: A Randomized, Controlled Trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2016 Jul;31(7):746-54. doi: 10.1007/s11606-016-3627-0. Epub 2016 Mar 14.

  PMID: 26976287 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Sedentary Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Dr. Mitesh Patel
• Organization: Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

mpatel@upenn.edu

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: No
• Restrictive Agreement: No

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 27, 2013
• First Posted: December 4, 2013
• Study Start: February 1, 2014
• Primary Completion: September 1, 2014
• Study Completion: September 1, 2014
• Last Updated: March 5, 2019
• Results First Posted: March 5, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-02