Incentive Disbursement Pattern

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Exercise

In brief

This study will be a three-arm randomized, controlled trial that the investigators will run in 2014 with approximately 4,000 users of an app called Achievemint. AchieveMint rewards users with points (which can be redeemed for prizes) for every step they take. The investigators will be testing three different point-based programs designed to encourage users to build exercise habits over the course of a month: stable incentives, increasing incentives, and decreasing incentives. After the investigators' month-long intervention period, the investigators will observe users' step counts during a month-long follow-up period to test which of the investigators' habit-building programs leaves users with the best exercise habits (or the highest step counts) after they conclude. The time frame of observation will be 8 months.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02154256

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

3519

Starts

2014-06-01

Expected to finish

2014-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-09-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• all users of the Achievemint app will be eligible for inclusion

You may not qualify if…

• all users of the Achievemint app who are in the top 30 percentiles of activity levels will be excluded.

Where it is running

• University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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