Using financial incentives to promote physical activity in American Indian adolescents: A randomized controlled trial.

Using financial incentives to promote physical activity in American Indian adolescents: A randomized controlled trial.

American Indians (AI) have high prevalence of diabetes in youth and may benefit from increasing physical activity as a strategy to improve metabolic health. We tested whether financial incentives would elicit greater frequency and/or duration of exercise in AI youth at high risk for developing diabe...

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Main Authors: Kevin R Short, Jennifer Q Chadwick, Tamela K Cannady, Dannielle E Branam, David F Wharton, Mary A Tullier, David M Thompson, Kenneth C Copeland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198390

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198390

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