Clinical trialNCT05554601Active, not recruitingInterventional

A Randomized Trial of Behaviorally Designed Gamification and Social Incentives to Increase Physical Activity Among Overweight and Obese Veterans

SponsorVA Office of Research and DevelopmentEnrollment725HypertensionObesity

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Summary

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Despite the many associated health benefits, more than half of Veterans do not achieve enough regular physical activity. The investigators' prior work has demonstrated that gamification, a method commonly used for health promotion, can lead to sustained increases in physical activity if it is designed using insights from behavioral economics to enhance social incentives. In this study, the investigators will compare the effectiveness of behaviorally designed gamification that encourages Veterans to collaborate or compete on physical activity levels and examine clinical outcomes as well as costs, barriers and facilitators to implementation of the program within Veterans Affairs.

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Investigators

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Amol S. Navathe, MD PhD
Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Principal Investigator
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Scott R Greysen, MD
Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Va Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pa
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 17 Jul 2023
Primary completion: 1 Jul 2026
Completion: 1 Jul 2027
Last update posted: 12 Aug 2026
Registered enrollment: 725
Registry id: NCT05554601

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 11 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.