Phone app aims to trick your brain into loving exercise
NCT ID NCT07044570
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether a smartphone app that sets daily exercise goals and helps you plan around barriers can change your automatic feelings about physical activity. Researchers will enroll 120 inactive adults who are overweight or obese. Participants wear a Fitbit and answer quick surveys on their phone to measure how fast they associate exercise with positive feelings.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only — not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Behavioural intervention: smartphone-based goal-setting and planning for physical activity
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could point toward better ways to help people stick with exercise programs by targeting their automatic feelings about being active.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-phase study with only 120 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The intervention is behavioural and may not produce lasting changes in physical activity.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Univeristy of Southern California
RECRUITINGLos Angeles, California, 90032, United States
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