TY - JOUR
T1 - Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics of WalkIT Arizona
T2 - A factorial randomized trial testing adaptive goals and financial reinforcement to increase walking across higher and lower walkable neighborhoods
AU - Adams, Marc A.
AU - Hurley, Jane C.
AU - Phillips, Christine B.
AU - Todd, Michael
AU - Angadi, Siddhartha S.
AU - Berardi, Vincent
AU - Hovell, Melbourne F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - Little change over the decades has been seen in adults meeting moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA)guidelines. Numerous individual-level interventions to increase MVPA have been designed, mostly static interventions without consideration for neighborhood context. Recent technologies make adaptive interventions for MVPA feasible. Unlike static interventions, adaptive intervention components (e.g., goal setting)adjust frequently to an individual's performance. Such technologies also allow for more precise delivery of “smaller, sooner incentives” that may result in greater MVPA than “larger, later incentives”. Combined, these factors could enhance MVPA adoption. Additionally, a central tenet of ecological models is that MVPA is sensitive to neighborhood environment design; lower-walkable neighborhoods constrain MVPA adoption and maintenance, limiting the effects of individual-level interventions. Higher-walkable neighborhoods are hypothesized to enhance MVPA interventions. Few prospective studies have addressed this premise. This report describes the rationale, design, intervention components, and baseline sample of a study testing individual-level adaptive goal-setting and incentive interventions for MVPA adoption and maintenance over 2 years among adults from neighborhoods known to vary in neighborhood walkability. We scaled these evidenced-based interventions and tested them against static-goal-setting and delayed-incentive comparisons in a 2 × 2 factorial randomized trial to increase MVPA among 512 healthy insufficiently-active adults. Participants (64.3% female, M age = 45.5 ± 9.1 years, M BMI = 33.9 ± 7.3 kg/m 2 , 18.8% Hispanic, 84.0% White)were recruited from May 2016 to May 2018 from block groups ranked on GIS-measured neighborhood walkability and socioeconomic status (SES)and classified into four neighborhood types: “high walkable/high SES,” “high walkable/low SES,” “low walkable/high SES,” and “low walkable/low SES.” Results from this ongoing study will provide evidence for some of the central research questions of ecological models.
AB - Little change over the decades has been seen in adults meeting moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA)guidelines. Numerous individual-level interventions to increase MVPA have been designed, mostly static interventions without consideration for neighborhood context. Recent technologies make adaptive interventions for MVPA feasible. Unlike static interventions, adaptive intervention components (e.g., goal setting)adjust frequently to an individual's performance. Such technologies also allow for more precise delivery of “smaller, sooner incentives” that may result in greater MVPA than “larger, later incentives”. Combined, these factors could enhance MVPA adoption. Additionally, a central tenet of ecological models is that MVPA is sensitive to neighborhood environment design; lower-walkable neighborhoods constrain MVPA adoption and maintenance, limiting the effects of individual-level interventions. Higher-walkable neighborhoods are hypothesized to enhance MVPA interventions. Few prospective studies have addressed this premise. This report describes the rationale, design, intervention components, and baseline sample of a study testing individual-level adaptive goal-setting and incentive interventions for MVPA adoption and maintenance over 2 years among adults from neighborhoods known to vary in neighborhood walkability. We scaled these evidenced-based interventions and tested them against static-goal-setting and delayed-incentive comparisons in a 2 × 2 factorial randomized trial to increase MVPA among 512 healthy insufficiently-active adults. Participants (64.3% female, M age = 45.5 ± 9.1 years, M BMI = 33.9 ± 7.3 kg/m 2 , 18.8% Hispanic, 84.0% White)were recruited from May 2016 to May 2018 from block groups ranked on GIS-measured neighborhood walkability and socioeconomic status (SES)and classified into four neighborhood types: “high walkable/high SES,” “high walkable/low SES,” “low walkable/high SES,” and “low walkable/low SES.” Results from this ongoing study will provide evidence for some of the central research questions of ecological models.
KW - Adaptive interventions
KW - Built environment
KW - Financial incentives
KW - Physical activity
KW - Rewards
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cct.2019.05.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cct.2019.05.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 31063868
SN - 1551-7144
VL - 81
SP - 87
EP - 101
JO - Contemporary Clinical Trials
JF - Contemporary Clinical Trials
ER -