Using Social Norms to Encourage People to Exercise More

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Conditions studied: Physical Activity

In brief

The investigators are interested in using social norms to motivate people to sign up for a 100-day exercise challenge and exploring how to make social norms messages more effective.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02907164

Run by

Washington University School of Medicine

People needed

15000

Starts

2016-09-01

Expected to finish

2017-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-09-20

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• All benefits-eligible employees at partner university for whom the Human Resource office has an email address on record

You may not qualify if…

• Employees who sign up for the challenge prior to the implementation of the interventions will NOT be included in the analysis.
• (The interventions are implemented one week after the registration period has started. The partner university has to send invitation emails to all benefits-eligible employees with an email address on record, including those who already signed up. However, employees who already signed up cannot be affected by the interventions and thus will be excluded from the analysis.)

Where it is running

• Hengchen Dai — St Louis, Missouri, United States

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