Adaptive goal setting and financial incentives: a 2 × 2 factorial randomized controlled trial to increase adults' physical activity

• Main Authors: Marc A. Adams (Author), Jane C. Hurley (Author), Michael Todd (Author), Nishat Bhuiyan (Author), Catherine L. Jarrett (Author), Wesley J. Tucker (Author), Kevin E. Hollingshead (Author), Siddhartha S. Angadi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Emerging interventions that rely on and harness variability in behavior to adapt to individual performance over time may outperform interventions that prescribe static goals (e.g., 10,000 steps/day). The purpose of this factorial trial was to compare adaptive vs. static goal sett...