Trial reportAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine2018
Commitment Lotteries Promote Physical Activity Among Overweight Adults-A Cluster Randomized Trial.
Trial report in Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- The Influence of Behavioral Sciences on Adherence to Physical Activity and Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese Patients: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Behavioral Economic Incentive Programs for Goal Achievement on Healthy Diet, Weight Control and Physical Activity: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Lottery incentives for smoking cessation at the workplace: a cluster randomized trial.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- A randomized controlled trial to evaluate a behavioral economic strategy for improving mobility in veterans with chronic pain.PloS one · 2021Trial
- Physical activity after commitment lotteries: examining long-term results in a cluster randomized trial.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2018Trial
- Promoting healthy behaviour with financial incentives: three challenges and solutions for large scale implementation.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Review
- Tracked Physical Activity Levels Before and After a Change in Incentive Strategy Among UK Adults Using a Rewards App: Retrospective Quasi-Experimental Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Comparison of low-dose maximal-intent versus controlled-tempo resistance training on quality-of-life, functional capacity, and strength in untrained healthy adults: a comparative effectiveness study.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Behavioral Economic Strategies to Improve Enrollment Rates in Clinical Research: Embedded Recruitment Pilot Trial.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Lottery incentives for smoking cessation at the workplace: design and protocol of the smoke-free lottery - a cluster randomized trial.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Implementation of State Vaccine Incentive Lottery Programs and Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Barriers to, and Facilitators of, Exercising in Fitness Centres among Adults with and without Physical Disabilities: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Behavior Change.Organizational behavior and human decision processes · 2020Article
- Behavioral Economic Insights to Improve Medication Adherence in Adults with Chronic Conditions: A Scoping Review.The patient · 2019Article
- Feel good now or regret it later? The respective roles of affective attitudes and anticipated affective reactions for explaining health-promoting and health risk behavioral intentions.Journal of applied social psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Background: The World Health Organization has identified physical inactivity as the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality. People often intend to engage in physical activity on a regular basis, but have trouble doing so. To realize their health goals, people can voluntarily accept deadlines with consequences that restrict undesired future behaviors (i.e., commitment devices). Purpose: We examined if lottery-based deadlines that leverage regret aversion would help overweight individuals in attaining their goal of attending their gym twice per week. At each deadline a lottery winner was drawn from all participants. The winners were only eligible for their prize if they attained their gym-attendance goals. Importantly, nonattending lottery winners were informed about their forgone prize. The promise of this counterfactual feedback was designed to evoke anticipated regret and emphasize the deadlines. Methods: Six corporate gyms with a total of 163 overweight participants were randomized to one of three arms. We compared (i) weekly short-term lotteries for 13 weeks; (ii) the same short-term lotteries in combination with an additional long-term lottery after 26 weeks; and (iii) a control arm without lotteries. Results: After 13 weeks, participants in the lottery arms attained their attendance goals more often than participants in the control arm. After 26 weeks, we observe a decline in goal attainment in the short-term lottery arm and the highest goal attainment in the long-term lottery arm. Conclusions: With novel applications, the current research adds to a growing body of research that demonstrates the effectiveness of commitment devices in closing the gap between health goals and behavior. Clinical Trial information: This trial is registered in the Dutch Trial Register. Identifier: NTR5559.
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