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Effectiveness of activity trackers with and without incentives to increase physical activity (TRIPPA): a randomised controlled trial
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Background Despite the increasing popularity of activity trackers, little evidence exists that they can improve health outcomes. We aimed to investigate whether use of activity trackers, alone or in combination with cash incentives or charitable donations, lead to increases in physical activity and improvements in health outcomes.Methods In this randomised controlled trial, employees from 13 organisations in Singapore were randomly assigned (1:1:1:1) with a computer generated assignment schedule to control (no tracker or incentives), Fitbit Zip activity tracker, tracker plus charity incentives, or tracker plus cash incentives. Participants had to be English speaking, full-time employees, aged 21-65 years, able to walk at least ten steps continuously, and non-pregnant. Incentives were tied to weekly steps, and the primary outcome, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) bout min per week, was measured via a sealed accelerometer and assessed on an intention-to-treat basis at 6 months (end of intervention) and 12 months (after a 6 month post-intervention follow-up period). Other outcome measures included steps, participants meeting 70 000 steps per week target, and health-related outcomes including weight, blood pressure, and quality-of-life measures. This trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT01855776.Findings Between June 13, 2013, and Aug 15, 2014, 800 participants were recruited and randomly assigned to the control (n=201), Fitbit (n=203), charity (n=199), and cash (n=197) groups. At 6 months, compared with control, the cash group logged an additional 29 MVPA bout min per week (95% CI 10-47; p=0·0024) and the charity group an additional 21 MVPA bout min per week (2-39; p=0·0310); the difference between Fitbit only and control was not significant (16 MVPA bout min per week [-2 to 35; p=0·0854]). Increases in MVPA bout min per week in the cash and charity groups were not significantly greater than that of the Fitbit group. At 12 months, the Fitbit group logged an additional 37 MVPA bout min per week (19-56; p=0·0001) and the charity group an additional 32 MVPA bout min per week (12-51; p=0·0013) compared with control; the difference between cash and control was not significant (15 MVPA bout min per week [-5 to 34; p=0·1363]). A decrease in physical activity of -23 MVPA bout min per week (95% CI -42 to -4; p=0·0184) was seen when comparing the cash group with the Fitbit group. There were no improvements in any health outcomes (weight, blood pressure, etc) at either assessment.Interpretation The cash incentive was most effective at increasing MVPA bout min per week at 6 months, but this effect was not sustained 6 months after the incentives were discontinued. At 12 months, the activity tracker with or without charity incentives were effective at stemming the reduction in MVPA bout min per week seen in the control group, but we identified no evidence of improvements in health outcomes, either with or without incentives, calling into question the value of these devices for health promotion. Although other incentive strategies might generate greater increases in step activity and improvements in health outcomes, incentives would probably need to be in place long term to avoid any potential decrease in physical activity resulting from discontinuation.Funding Ministry of Health, Singapore.
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“Moreover, 17 studies reported activity tracker adherence data [21,22,30,32,34,35, 37,38,40,41,43-45,50-52,54], with 13 of these studies [21,22,30,34,35,40,41,43,44,50-52,54] reporting activity tracker wear on at least 50% of the study intervention days.”
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“In addition, 4 studies included either an unstructured follow-up phase [34,42] or additional intervention phase utilizing a nonblinded activity tracker for all participants [41,50].”
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“A total of 26 studies were included across all meta-analyses [21,22,29-48,50-53].”
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“Thirteen studies included young adults (≤39.9 years) [30-34,37,38,42,44,46-48,50], 15 included middle-aged adults (40-64.9 years) [21,22,29,35,36,39-41, 43,45,51-54], and 1 study included adults aged over 65 years [49].”
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“Two of the included studies [34,44] reported a significant increase in daily steps, 4 studies [30,34,36,53] reported a significant increase in MVPA, and 2 studies [45,47] reported a significant increase in energy expenditure for the intervention group compared with control.”
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“PA interventions did not show long-term behavioural changes or did not improve clinical outcomes”
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“Moreover, despite the improvement in MVPA at 12 months with activity tracking, with or without incentives, these findings did not translate into an improvement in health outcomes, such as weight and BP reduction, at 12 months.”
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“The trial showed that a cash incentive was most effective at increasing MVPA at 6 months, but this effect was not sustained 6 months after the removal of incentives.”
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“Therefore, the use of behavioural economics and cognitive psychology to develop novel social and financial incentives can potentially sustain good habits, especially when initiated at a very young age44.”
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“As mentioned previously, a trial with 800 participants questioned the value of wearables in sustaining long-term behavioural changes and improving clinical outcomes44.”
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“Sedentary behavior was measured objectively, except in two studies [82,104] that utilized a self-reported questionnaire to obtain daily sitting time or sedentary behavior.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Finkelstein, E. A., Haaland, B. A., Bilger, M., Sahasranaman, A., Sloan, R. A., Nang, E. E. K., & Evenson, K. R.
- Affiliations
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Duke-NUS Medical School (SG)
- Kagoshima University (JP)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Finkelstein, Eric A
- Venue
- The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-12
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 983-995
- ISSN
- 2213-8587 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2528113844
- Cited by
- 402
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 62 · 2020: 102 · 2019: 53 · 2018: 43 · 2017: 30 · 2016: 4
- FWCI
- 34.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- WU Research (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Health Services Research Competitive Research Grant (HSRG/0022/2012)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Keywords
- wearable activity trackers, Fitbit, physical activity, cash incentives, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, step count, workplace health promotion, employee health, blood pressure, body weight, quality of life, accelerometer-measured activity, gamification
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Charities, Female, Habits, Humans, Male, Motivation, Exercise, Occupational Health, Accelerometry
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