Tying Devices as a Means of Increasing Exercise



Status:Completed
Conditions:Healthy Studies
Therapuetic Areas:Other
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - 75
Updated:12/20/2018
Start Date:September 2011
End Date:September 2012

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The investigators propose that healthy behaviors such as exercise could be increased through
the use of tying devices - mechanisms that force a coupling of addictive activities
(listening to the next chapter of a page-turner novel) with engagement in a healthy behavior
(exercise).

The study will test the effect of the following treatments as a means of increasing gym
attendance over 10 weeks: 1. Participants receive access to 4 iTunes audio novels on their
own iPods and prompted to listen to those novels only when exercising at the gym; 2:
Participants receive 4 iTunes audio novels for a loaned iPod that they will only have access
to at the gym; 3: Participants receive weekly emails asking them about their exercise.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Stable health as determined by the screening of their medical history

- Own an iPod

- An interest in exercising more regularly

- Belong to the Pottruck Gym at University of Pennsylvania

- Interested in exercising more through the use of aerobic exercise machines

Exclusion Criteria:

- Recent myocardial infraction

- congestive heart failure

- uncontrolled hypertension

- self-report of 6 or more alcoholic beverages per day or use of any illicit drugs

- bulimia nervosa or related behaviors

- diabetes medication
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