Personal financial incentives can change habitual health-related behaviors and help reduce health inequalities .
However , their role in reducing disease burden is potentially limited given current evidence that effects dissipate beyond three months post-incentive removal
OBJECTIVES Uncertainty remains about whether personal financial incentives could achieve sustained changes in health-related behaviors that would reduce the fast-growing global non-communicable disease burden .
This review aims to estimate whether : i. financial incentives achieve sustained changes in smoking , eating , alcohol consumption and physical activity ; ii .
effectiveness is modified by ( a ) the target behavior , ( b ) incentive value and attainment certainty , ( c ) recipients ' deprivation level .
Effects of a personal trainer and financial incentives on exercise adherence in overweight women in a behavioral weight loss program.
Exercise is important for long-term weight loss , but few studies have examined ways to improve exercise adherence in overweight subjects participating in a behavioral weight loss program . This paper presents two studies , one conducted at the University of Pittsburgh and one at the University of Minnesota , that sought to improve exercise adherence by exerting more direct control over the environmental antecedents and consequences controlling exercise . Study 1 investigated the use of a personal trainer who called participants regularly and met them at their home or office at scheduled times for a walk . Study 2 investigated the effect of a lottery incentive for exercise adherence . In both studies , the effect of these manipulations was examined in the context of a 24-week st and ard behavioral weight control program with three supervised exercise sessions per week . Neither intervention achieved statistically significant improvements in exercise adherence compared to control conditions , perhaps due in part to the limited statistical power of the studies . Future studies should focus on better underst and ing the barriers to exercise and design ing behavioral interventions that address these barriers
Personal financial incentives can change habitual health-related behaviors and help reduce health inequalities .
However , their role in reducing disease burden is potentially limited given current evidence that effects dissipate beyond three months post-incentive removal
OBJECTIVES Uncertainty remains about whether personal financial incentives could achieve sustained changes in health-related behaviors that would reduce the fast-growing global non-communicable disease burden .
This review aims to estimate whether : i. financial incentives achieve sustained changes in smoking , eating , alcohol consumption and physical activity ; ii .
effectiveness is modified by ( a ) the target behavior , ( b ) incentive value and attainment certainty , ( c ) recipients ' deprivation level .