Incentives for Moving

NCT ID: NCT01278680

Last Updated: 2015-08-19

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: WITHDRAWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2011-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2013-04-30

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Sedentary Lifestyle; Obesity; General Well-being

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Hold-out control

Hold-out control: participants will be asked to refrain from using the walkstations for the duration of the study (90 days).

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Personal incentive

Personal incentive: Participants will receive $3 for each time they use the walkstation.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Incentives for walkstation usage

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The investigators are testing the effect of two different incentive schemes on people's usage of walkstations at work: either a personal incentive (in which people receive personal financial benefit for using the walkstations) vs. a charitable incentive (in which others receive financial benefit if a given individual uses the walkstation).

Charitable incentive

Charitable incentive: $3 will be donated to charity every time the participant uses the walkstation.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Incentives for walkstation usage

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The investigators are testing the effect of two different incentive schemes on people's usage of walkstations at work: either a personal incentive (in which people receive personal financial benefit for using the walkstations) vs. a charitable incentive (in which others receive financial benefit if a given individual uses the walkstation).

Interventions

Incentives for walkstation usage

The investigators are testing the effect of two different incentive schemes on people's usage of walkstations at work: either a personal incentive (in which people receive personal financial benefit for using the walkstations) vs. a charitable incentive (in which others receive financial benefit if a given individual uses the walkstation).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Must pass the ParQ

Exclusion Criteria

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of California, Berkeley

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Carnegie Mellon University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Harvard University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Michael Norton

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Blue Shield of California

San Francisco, California, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

Walkstation3

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id