Heart Patients Exercised More by Using Games and Incentives To Maintain Money, New Study Showed
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Research from LDI Fellows at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) indicates that behavioral interventions can boost physical activity over 18 months.
In a promising clinical trial featured on the Today Show, LDI Senior Fellows Alexander Fanaroff, Neel Chokshi, Louise Russell, Dylan Small, Kevin Volpp, and colleagues designed interventions to determine how behaviorally-designed gamification, loss-framed financial incentives, or a combination of the two could influence physical activity. The three interventions showed a 10% increase in daily steps across the board compared with attention control, and a 40% increase from participants’ baselines, and were sustained for one year.