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COMPLETEDNANCT01410812

Tying Devices as a Means of Increasing Exercise

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 ...

Lead sponsor: University of Pennsylvania•1 U.S. locations•View source on ClinicalTrials.gov

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University of Pennsylvania

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.

Age

18 - 75 years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

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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Data from ClinicalTrials.govLast updated on ClinicalTrials.gov: December 19, 2018Terms

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StatusCOMPLETED

PhaseNA

Enrollment226

Start dateSep 2011

Last updatedDec 19, 2018

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University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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This clinical trial information is sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

ClinicalTrials.gov last update: December 19, 2018Data synced to Clareo: May 25, 2026

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