Addictive Behaviors, Exercise
Conditions
Brief summary
Contingency Management (CM) is highly effective in promoting recovery from substance use disorders, but benefits tend to attenuate over time when CM is discontinued. Identifying modifications of CM delivery that can extend its benefits is an important goal. The goal of this study is to evaluate the use of reinforcements to increase physical activity, specifically walking. The study provides a standard CM intervention to promote walking for three weeks. After three weeks, a progressively increasing variable interval schedule of reinforcement will be evaluated for increasing the durability of effects of the initial CM intervention. We hypothesize that Variable Interval Prize Contingency Management will result in greater adherence to a walking goal of 10,000 steps per day at Week 15 and Week 24 compared to the Control Condition.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALVIP CM
Participants will receive progressively increasing CM for walking 10,000 steps per day over 4 days prior to visit as verified by the pedometer.
Sponsors
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
UConn Health
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* age \> 18 years * currently not physically active * Physically able and willing to walk 10,000 steps per day
Exclusion criteria
* psychiatric or physical illness that could interfere with participation
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| number of steps walked in seven days prior to follow up assessment, as verified by the pedometer | week 15 |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed