Effects of a Minimal-Contact Lifestyle Intervention on Physical Activity, Diet, and Body Weight

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Weight Loss
• Interventions: Behavioral: Daily step goal financial incentive; Behavioral: Standard of Care

• Registration Number: NCT02008071
• Lead Sponsor: University of Tennessee

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial, to determine whether providing financial incentives for meeting daily step goals (a) increases the daily step counts of participants, (b) increases compliance with the overall program (including diet recommendations), and (c) increases weight loss.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-03
• Primary Completion: 2013-07
• Study Completion: 2013-08
• Study First Submitted: 2013-11-13
• Status Verified: 2013-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-12-05
• Study First Posted: 2013-12-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-07-21
• Last Update Posted: 2015-07-22

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 57

Inclusion Criteria

• required to be able to read.
• required to have access to a computer.
• required to have a body mass index between 27 and 45 kg.m-2.
• required to take fewer than 7,000 steps per day at baseline (as determined by a pedometer, averaged across 4-7 days).

Exclusion Criteria

• Individuals who report having an injury or physical limitation that renders them unable to walk ¼ mile without difficulty.
• Uncontrolled cardiovascular or metabolic condition determined by health history questionnaire.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Daily step goal financial incentive	Daily step goal financial incentive	-
Control, Standard of Care	Standard of Care	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Daily Step Count	Change from week 1 to week 12	Change in steps/day from week 1 to week 12.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Program Compliance	Change from week 1 to week 12	Compliance with the physical activity prescription, means meeting or exceeding the step goal for that day. Participants' compliance was assessed by totaling the number of days they met their step goal and dividing it by the total number of days of the intervention. Thus, providing investigators the percentage of days that each participant complied with their physical activity prescription.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Tennessee; 🇺🇸 Knoxville, Tennessee, United States