Adaptive goal setting and financial incentives: a 2 × 2 factorial randomized controlled trial to increase adults’ physical activity

Adaptive goal setting and financial incentives: a 2 × 2 factorial randomized controlled trial to increase adults’ physical activity

Abstract Background Emerging interventions that rely on and harness variability in behavior to adapt to individual performance over time may outperform interventions that prescribe static goals (e.g., 10,000 steps/day). The purpose of this factorial trial was to compare adaptive vs. static goal sett...

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Main Authors: Marc A. Adams, Jane C. Hurley, Michael Todd, Nishat Bhuiyan, Catherine L. Jarrett, Wesley J. Tucker, Kevin E. Hollingshead, Siddhartha S. Angadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-03-01
Series:BMC Public Health
Subjects:
Adaptive interventions
Reward
Goals
mHealth
Pedometer
Fitbit
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-017-4197-8

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