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 .
A Comparison of Smoking Cessation Treatments for Persons with Schizophrenia and Other Serious Mental Illnesses
Abstract Adults with any DSM-IV diagnosed mental illness smoke nearly half of the cigarettes consumed in the U.S. ( Lasser et al. 2000 ) . This study compared two smoking cessation interventions for persons with schizophrenia or other serious mental illness because national data suggests that : ( 1 ) they smoke at two to three times the rate of the general population ; ( 2 ) cessation interventions for this population are understudied ; ( 3 ) most cessation studies exclude persons with serious mental illness ; and ( 4 ) cessation results in public health care savings and disposable income savings for clients . This study included a large number of persons with serious mental illness ( N = 181 ) who were r and omly assigned to one of three groups : contingent reinforcement ( CR ) , CR plus nicotine patch ( 21 mg , CR+NRT ) for 16 weeks , and a minimal intervention , self-quit control group . These participants were followed for 36 weeks . CR was accomplished with escalating financial compensation for achieving and maintaining abstinence as verified by expired carbon monoxide ( CO ) . Quit rates , as measured by expired CO , were higher and discordant with saliva cotinine quit rates . Cotinine showed lower quit rates and small differences between intervention and control partici pants at weeks 20 and 36 . There was , however , evidence of reduced smoking and importantly , no evidence of psychiatric exacerbation
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 .