Assured , or " sure thing , " incentives and objective behavioral assessment in particular appear to moderate incentive effectiveness .
The effect estimate from the meta- analysis suggests that financial incentives increase exercise session attendance for interventions up to 6 months in duration .
CONTEXT Less than 5 % of U.S. adults accumulate the required dose of exercise to maintain health .
Behavioral economics has stimulated renewed interest in economic-based , population -level health interventions to address this issue .
Despite widespread implementation of financial incentive-based public health and workplace wellness policies , the effects of financial incentives on exercise initiation and maintenance in adults remain unclear .
Work-site cardiovascular risk reduction: a randomized trial of health risk assessment, education, counseling, and incentives.
OBJECTIVES This study reports an efficacy trial of four work-site health promotion programs . It was predicted that strategies making use of behavioral counseling would produce a greater reduction in cardiovascular disease risk factors than screening and educational strategies . METHODS Twenty-eight work sites were r and omly allocated to a health risk assessment , risk factor education , behavioral counseling , or behavioral counseling plus incentives intervention . Participants were assessed before the intervention and at 3 , 6 , and 12 months . RESULTS Compared with the average of the health risk assessment and risk factor education conditions , there were significantly higher vali date d continuous smoking cessation rates and smaller increases in body mass index and estimated percentage of body fat in the two behavioral counseling conditions . The behavioral counseling condition was associated with a greater reduction in mean blood pressure than was the behavioral counseling plus incentives condition . On average among all groups , there was a short-term increase in aerobic capacity followed by a return to baseline levels . CONCLUSIONS Work-site interventions that use behavioral approaches can produce lasting changes in some cardiovascular risk factors and , if implemented routinely , can have a significant public health impact
Assured , or " sure thing , " incentives and objective behavioral assessment in particular appear to moderate incentive effectiveness .
The effect estimate from the meta- analysis suggests that financial incentives increase exercise session attendance for interventions up to 6 months in duration .
CONTEXT Less than 5 % of U.S. adults accumulate the required dose of exercise to maintain health .
Behavioral economics has stimulated renewed interest in economic-based , population -level health interventions to address this issue .
Despite widespread implementation of financial incentive-based public health and workplace wellness policies , the effects of financial incentives on exercise initiation and maintenance in adults remain unclear .