Pilot Games and Participant Survey - FitGAME: HEALTHY HABITS - Finding Revealed
FitGAMES is the inspired result of Kansas City-based wellness firm, HealthyFit’s effort to address the wellness industry challenge: Employee Engagement. FitGAMES, the web-based wellness gaming platform went live last year and hosted a successful pilot launch the first game to be released, FitGAME: HEALTHY HABITS. HEALTHY HABITS premiered January 1st 2015 after the campaign to Unleash Your Employees’ Potential! Start the New Year Off With FitGAMES: HEALTHY HABITS. Groups have since completed the 8-week, 8 level game on forming healthy habits around four key Health Risk Factors: Nutrition, Physical Activity, Stress Management and Sleep, providing employers a fast ROI and turnaround of substantial risk stratification reports and an evaluation of their population’s perceived health. Participant pre and post game assessments and end of game survey, reveal further insight.
Whereas traditional “corporate challenges,” such as field day competitions, Biggest Loser-inspired weight loss challenges and counting steps-based walking challenges, the team with the most or best or first to finish, wins, HEALTHY HABITS is a holistic and non-exclusive. FitGAMES combines 3 motivational techniques: Intrinsic Motivation, Social/Peer Connectivity and Gamification…. To something, engagement, everybody wins, collect meaningful outcomes..
Intrinsic Motivation: By design, game components were built on the following foundations of intrinsic motivation: Autonomy, Competence and Support. FitGAMES:
Encourages Autonomy. Participants create a personal vision statement, set and score custom goals. Teams advance when all teammates participate.Cultivates Competence. Participants are educated through FitGAMES all original multi-media content library of articles, quizzes, informational and applicational videos. Participants gain knowledge necessary to bridge the gap between knowing and doing. “A few years ago my husband suffered a heart attack. I had read about healthy eating and was told by the hospital dietician what to avoid. FitGAMES articles have given me a much needed boost. Everyday I read an article, I have found something to take home for my next meal planning or trip to the grocery store. ~Healthy Habits FitGAME participant on Knowledge game component
64% of Healthy Habits FitGAME participants surveyed, ranked reading articles as the best component of the game.Provides Support. FitGAMES has a strong health coaching influence. Participants engage regular group coaching sessions lead by FitGAMES professional health coaches. One-on-one health coaching as well as peer coaching are optional. “My monthly coaching session is just one more way to hold myself accountable for my actions. FitGAMES coaching sessions and Wendy’s advice has helped me to look at my actions and to think about the underlying causes of my actions/reactions which trigger overeating or get me off my workout routine. With her encouragement I have added additional exercises to my regimen and have found ways to deal with stress which do not include overeating. I’ve found these sessions to be very beneficial.” ~Healthy Habits FitGAME participant on Group Coaching
28% of Healthy Habits FitGAME participants surveyed, ranked ranked group health coaching as the best component of the game.
Gamification is the idea of taking an undesirable activity and making it fun by adding game-like features. Incentives and points presented in game-design can add an “addictive” element keeping players engaged. Gamification compliments the social media components built into the FitGAMES platform to tap into Social/Peer Connectivity, motivating players through healthy competition, teamwork and accountability.
FitGAME:HEALTHY HABITS is the FitGAME which covering habits for overall improved health. All FitGAMES will follow the model of HEALTHY HABITS, however the projected scope is to develop a menu of games which one specific health risk factors. The first in the series is set to release next month and the FitGAMES platform will continuously enhance as features tailored to the health focus of each new game are created, offering more outcomes data. FitGAMES looks forward to revealing integrate wearable devices and tracking features to reveal outcomes data.
About FitGAMES is a trademark product of HealthFit, LLC.
Development began in 2010 based on gaming trend insights, HealthyFit worked with gaming app experts to build the FitGAMES web-based platform. HealthyFit’s team of wellness experts are in-house to for product development, content writing, health coaching, reporting, marketing and communications. FitGAMES is not only a solution to employee engagement, FitGAMES are a standalone, original easy-to-implement and virtually turn-key wellness initiative. FitGAMES provides employers a tangible, easy-to-implement and virtually turn-key wellness initiative. Each FitGAME is a 6 to 8 week commitment, providing fast turnaround outcomes reports.
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