Social Incentives to Increase Mobility

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

233 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-01-11

Study Completion Date

2019-09-09

Brief Summary

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This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a social incentive-based gamification intervention to increase physical activity in the 3 months after hospital discharge.

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Detailed Description

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This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a social incentive-based gamification intervention to increase physical activity in the 3 months after hospital discharge. To do this, the investigators will conduct a two-arm randomized, controlled trial during the 3-months after hospital discharge comparing a control group that uses a wearable device to track physical activity to an intervention group that uses the same wearable devices and receives a supportive social incentive-based gamification intervention to adhere to a step goal program. Patients will be enrolled during hospitalization from medicine and oncology floors into three phases. In phase 1 (hospitalization), patients inpatient step counts will be monitored. In phase 2 (week 1 post-discharge), patients will have a baseline step count estimated. In phase 3 (weeks 2-13 post-discharge), patients will be randomly assigned to the control or intervention group. Patients will be considered enrolled in the trial if they complete the run-in periods (phases 1 and 2) and then are randomized into phase 3.

The enrollment phase will be part of another randomized trial which evaluates the impact of three recruitment strategies on patient enrollment. This trial will be completed and unmasked to patients before they begin the phase 1 of our study.

The investigators will also explore patients' physical activity while in the hospital and if that differs across floors that have or have not deployed a nursing mobility protocol. Changes in patient functional decline and 30-day hospital readmission will also be explored.

Conditions

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Pneumonia Diabetes Congestive Heart Failure Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Control

Participants' daily step counts will be for weeks 2-13 after hospital discharge. Participants will be asked to complete surveys at 5, 9 and 13 weeks post-discharge.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Intervention

Participants' daily step counts will be monitored for weeks 2-13 after hospital discharge. Participants will have a weekly step goal that increases from baseline by 10% each week of the intervention (12 weeks). Participants will engage in a social incentive-based gamification based on points and levels that leverages loss aversion, which has been demonstrated to motivate behavior change more effectively with losses than gains. Participants will receive daily feedback for the step counts and weekly feedback for levels. Participants will be asked to identify a support partner, who will receive weekly reports with the the participant's points and levels balance.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Social Incentive

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants in the intervention arm will receive social incentives as part of the intervention. See arm descriptions for more detail.

Interventions

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Social Incentive

Participants in the intervention arm will receive social incentives as part of the intervention. See arm descriptions for more detail.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age 18 or older
* Admitted to medicine or oncology floor in the hospital

Exclusion Criteria

* Inability to provide informed consent
* Does not have daily access to a smartphone compatible with the wearable device
* Already enrolled in another physical activity program
* Inpatient mobility score of 0 or 1 indicating that physical activity is not appropriate for the patient
* Any other medical conditions that would prohibit participation in a 3-month physical activity program
* Unable to complete the run-in phases (e.g. not discharged from the hospital within 60 days of enrolling; not willing to use the wearable device for the 3-month post-discharge intervention).

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No