{"540351":{"#nid":"540351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Exercise Incentive","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022x_story-body-text\u0022\u003EPeople will exercise more if you give them money \u2014 but only if they are paid in the right way. For a 13-week study, researchers randomly assigned 281 people to one of four groups. The goal for each person was to achieve 7,000 steps a day, recorded on a smartphone accelerometer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022x_story-body-text\u0022\u003EThose in the first group got $1.40 for each day they reached the goal. In the second group, the reward for success was entry into a lottery with a possible payoff of $100. Those in the third were given $42 the first day of every month, deposited in an online account, and had $1.40 automatically deducted each day they failed to achieve 7,000 steps. A control group received only daily feedback about their performance. The study is in Annals of Internal Medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022x_story-body-text\u0022\u003EThe control group achieved their goal 30 percent of the time, and the lottery and paid-every-day groups performed statistically no better, at 35 percent. But the group paid upfront, risking a loss every day, succeeded 45 percent of the time.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Study suggests that paying people to exercise can yield results, but not in every circumstance."}],"uid":"30687","created_gmt":"2016-05-26 11:21:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:46","author":"Nathaniel Barnwell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-02-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-02-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"542121":{"id":"542121","type":"image","title":"Stamps placeholder image","body":null,"created":"1465333200","gmt_created":"2016-06-07 21:00:00","changed":"1475895329","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:29","alt":"Stamps placeholder image","file":{"fid":"90679","name":"logo_gt_shs.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/logo_gt_shs.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/logo_gt_shs.png","mime":"image\/png","size":29036,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/logo_gt_shs.png?itok=e75JTDvr"}}},"media_ids":["542121"],"groups":[{"id":"428961","name":"Health and Well-Being"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172060","name":"health blog"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}