Incentives for Moving

Withdrawn before enrolling · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Sedentary Lifestyle; Obesity; General Well-being

In brief

Employees of Blue Shield of California (BSC) will be recruited to participate to regularly use Walkstations. Some participants will be randomly assigned to a "hold out" control condition and the remainder will be assigned to one of two experimental treatments: Personal Incentive vs. Charitable Incentive. In the Personal Incentive condition people will be paid $3 for every completed Walkstation session, whereas for participants in the Charitable Incentive condition $3 will be donated to a specific charity. The incentives will operate for approximately 45 days and then for an additional 45 days participants in the two experimental conditions will have access to the Walkstations. Participants in the hold out control condition will begin using the Walkstations after the initial 90 day period.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01278680

Run by

Harvard University

People needed

0

Starts

2011-02-01

Expected to finish

2013-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-08-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Must pass the ParQ

You may not qualify if…

• Ineligible if person did not pass ParQ AND did not provide doctor's note authorizing their participation.

Where it is running

• Blue Shield of California — San Francisco, California, United States

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