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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Halpern, Scott D
• French, Benjamin
• Small, Dylan S
• Saulsgiver, Kathryn
• Harhay, Michael O
• Audrain-McGovern, Janet
• Loewenstein, George
• Brennan, Troyen A
• Asch, David A
• Volpp, Kevin G

Titel

Randomized Trial of Four Financial-Incentive Programs for Smoking Cessation

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2015-05, Vol.372 (22), p.2108-2117

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

Electronic Journals Library - Freely accessible e-journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this randomized trial of financial incentives in smokers, both reward-based and deposit-based incentive programs were more effective than usual care in achieving smoking cessation. Reward programs were much more commonly accepted than deposit-based programs. Financial incentives have been shown to promote a variety of health behaviors. 1 – 8 For example, in a randomized, clinical trial involving 878 General Electric employees, a bundle of incentives worth $750 for smoking cessation nearly tripled quit rates, from 5.0% to 14.7%, 8 and led to a program adapted by General Electric for its U.S. employees. 9 Although incentive programs are increasingly used by governments, employers, and insurers to motivate changes in health behavior, 10 , 11 their design is usually based on the traditional economic assumption that the size of the incentive determines its effectiveness. In contrast, behavioral economic theory suggests that incentives . . .