Tying Devices as a Means of Increasing Exercise
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Healthy
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
- Enrollment
- 226
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Average Weekly Gym Attendance From Baseline to Week 9
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 7 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The investigators propose that healthy behaviors such as exercise could be increased through the use of tying devices - mechanisms that force a coupling of addictive activities (listening to the next chapter of a page-turner novel) with engagement in a healthy behavior (exercise).
Detailed Description
The study will test the effect of the following treatments as a means of increasing gym attendance over 10 weeks: 1. Participants receive access to 4 iTunes audio novels on their own iPods and prompted to listen to those novels only when exercising at the gym; 2: Participants receive 4 iTunes audio novels for a loaned iPod that they will only have access to at the gym; 3: Participants receive weekly emails asking them about their exercise.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Stable health as determined by the screening of their medical history
- •Own an iPod
- •An interest in exercising more regularly
- •Belong to the Pottruck Gym at University of Pennsylvania
- •Interested in exercising more through the use of aerobic exercise machines
Exclusion Criteria
- •Recent myocardial infraction
- •congestive heart failure
- •uncontrolled hypertension
- •self-report of 6 or more alcoholic beverages per day or use of any illicit drugs
- •bulimia nervosa or related behaviors
- •diabetes medication
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Average Weekly Gym Attendance From Baseline to Week 9
Time Frame: 9 weeks
Secondary Outcomes
- Dollar Amount Participants Would Pay for Enrollment(9 weeks)