Financial Incentives for Increasing Exercise

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Timeline

Start Date

January 31, 2010

Primary Completion Date

April 30, 2013

Study Completion Date

October 31, 2013

Conditions
Sedentary LifestyleObesity
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Financial incentives for increasing physical exercise

Throughout the 12-week intervention, participants will receive step goals. The step goals will increase by 250 steps per week, The intervention will last a total of 12 weeks. After each seven-day week, step goals will increase by an additional 250 steps - thus over the 12 weeks, participants will be asked to increase their daily step count by 3,000. Participants will receive financial incentives to attain these step goals; the incentive schemes differ according to intervention arm.

Trial Locations (1)

02142

Genzyme, Cambridge

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Blue Cross Blue Shield

OTHER

collaborator

Genzyme, a Sanofi Company

INDUSTRY

collaborator

Partners HealthCare

OTHER

lead

Harvard University

OTHER