Kinesiology 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Team Building, Conceptual Framework, Group Dynamics
20 Apr 2017
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Framing financial incentives to increase physical activity among overweight and obese adults. Financial incentive designs to increase physical activity have not been well-examined. Used to test the effectiveness of 3 methods to frame financial incentives to increase physical activity among overweight and obese adults. Intervention is delivered through an iphone or android smartphone with mobile application. All participants selected whether they preferred to receive study communications by email, text, or both. Gain incentive- received . 40 for each day they met the targeted goal. Loss incentive- . 40 was taken away from the monthly incentive ( dollars up front) each time the daily goal was not met. One winning number was selected daily and either a or prize was awarded depending on whether the match was 1 digit or 2 digits. Mean proportion of participant days that a 7000 step goal was achieved during the 13-week intervention.
