Behavioral Economics Incentives for Health Management

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Conditions studied: Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity

In brief

Incentives are increasingly being used to motivate health behavior in medical studies. Small cash payments conditional on certain health and welfare promoting behaviors have shown efficacy in both real world and experimental settings. Furthermore, in incentive studies, behavioral economics has been shown to amplify behavior change beyond what is possible with simple cash payments, but little is known about how varying incentive payment design may impact health behavior. The goal of the present study is to evaluate a new incentive payment instrument, lottery insurance, to determine its impact on adherence to the target health behavior, attendance at free exercise classes provided by QueensCare Family Clinics, a safety-net medical clinic.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01823458

Run by

University of Southern California

People needed

152

Starts

2012-04-01

Expected to finish

2014-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-04-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 64. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 18 to 64 years of age
• BMI between 25-40
• Receiving care in QueensCare Family Clinics

You may not qualify if…

• Failure to obtain exercise clearance from physician

Where it is running

• QueensCare Family Clinics — Los Angeles, California, United States

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