Changing health behaviors using financial incentives: a review from behavioral economics

I Vlaev, D King, A Darzi, P Dolan - BMC public health, 2019 - Springer
Background Incentives are central to economics and are used across the public and private
sectors to influence behavior. Recent interest has been shown in using financial incentives …

The effectiveness of financial incentives for health behaviour change: systematic review and meta-analysis

EL Giles, S Robalino, E McColl, FF Sniehotta, J Adams - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Financial incentive interventions have been suggested as one method of
promoting healthy behaviour change. Objectives To conduct a systematic review of the …

[HTML][HTML] Personal financial incentives for changing habitual health-related behaviors: a systematic review and meta-analysis

E Mantzari, F Vogt, I Shemilt, Y Wei, JPT Higgins… - Preventive …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objectives Uncertainty remains about whether personal financial incentives could achieve
sustained changes in health-related behaviors that would reduce the fast-growing global …

[HTML][HTML] When do financial incentives reduce intrinsic motivation? comparing behaviors studied in psychological and economic literatures.

M Promberger, TM Marteau - Health Psychology, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: To review existing evidence on the potential of incentives to undermine or “crowd
out” intrinsic motivation, in order to establish whether and when it predicts financial …

Effectiveness of financial incentives to improve adherence to maintenance treatment with antipsychotics: cluster randomised controlled trial

S Priebe, K Yeeles, S Bremner, C Lauber, S Eldridge… - Bmj, 2013 - bmj.com
Objective To test whether offering financial incentives to patients with psychotic disorders is
effective in improving adherence to maintenance treatment with antipsychotics. Design …

Effectiveness and acceptability of parental financial incentives and quasi-mandatory schemes for increasing uptake of vaccinations in preschool children: systematic …

J Adams, B Bateman, F Becker… - Health technology …, 2015 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Effectiveness and acceptability of parental financial incentives and quasi-mandatory schemes
for increasing uptake of vaccinatio Page 1 HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT VOLUME …

[HTML][HTML] “Pay them if it works”: discrete choice experiments on the acceptability of financial incentives to change health related behaviour

M Promberger, P Dolan, TM Marteau - Social science & medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
The use of financial incentives to change health-related behaviour is often opposed by
members of the public. We investigated whether the acceptability of incentives is influenced …

Financial reinforcers for improving medication adherence: findings from a meta-analysis

NM Petry, CJ Rash, S Byrne, S Ashraf… - The American journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Increasingly, financial reinforcement interventions based on behavioral
economic principles are being applied in health care settings, and this study examined the …

Acceptability of financial incentives for encouraging uptake of healthy behaviours: A critical review using systematic methods

EL Giles, S Robalino, FF Sniehotta, J Adams… - Preventive …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective Financial incentives are effective in encouraging healthy behaviours, yet concerns
about acceptability remain. We conducted a systematic review exploring acceptability of …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the carrot rewards app, a population-level incentive-based intervention promoting step counts across two Canadian provinces: quasi-experimental …

M Mitchell, L White, E Lau, T Leahey… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2018 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background: The Carrot Rewards app was developed as part of an innovative public-private
partnership to reward Canadians with loyalty points, exchangeable for retail goods, travel …