NCT04874415Completed
Behavioral Economics for Activity Motivation in Adolescents (BEAM)
Behavioral Economics for Activity Motivation in Adolescents and Young Adults With Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 28 Oct 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
There is an urgent need to engineer targeted physical activity interventions that are effective and scalable for obese adolescents and young adults (AYA) with type 2 diabetes (T2D), who often have very low levels of physical activity. The BEAM Trial is a mobile health (mHealth) intervention that uses behavioral economic-informed financial incentives and text messaging to promote physical activity in AYA with T2D and prediabetes.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 75 (actual)
- First submitted
- 30 Apr 2021
- Start date
- 16 Nov 2021
- Primary completion date
- 4 Oct 2024
- Lead sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
- Diseases
- Type 2 diabetes
- NCT number
- NCT04874415
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 75
- From 16 Nov 2021 to the primary completion date, 4 Oct 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- 5\) Previously-diagnosed or current restrictive or purging eating disorder
Other illness
- 2\) Severe cognitive impairment
Other
- 1\) Potential subject unable to speak or read in English
- 3\) Permanent or temporary physical disability that impairs ambulation or precludes engagement in MVPA
- 4\) Current pregnancy
- 6\) Moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) \>30 minutes per day or Fitbit wear \< 4 days during second week of 2-week run-in period
Who the study is looking for
- 1\) Males or females age 13 to 22 years.
- 2\) Overweight or obese (BMI ≥85th percentile for age/sex, or ≥25 kg/m2 for participants ≥18 years)
- 3\) Diagnosis with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes
- 4\) Consent (subjects 18 and older), Parental/guardian permission (subjects 13-17), assent (subjects 13-17)
- 5\) Willingness to wear Fitbit during waking hours daily for duration of run-in and intervention.
- 6\) Possession of a smartphone.
Age in the registry: 13 years to 22 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pittsburgh | United States | Unknown status |
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