Effectiveness of Contingency Contracting

Contingency contracting to enhance patient compliance: a review.

Researchers and practitioners have expressed considerable interest in contingency contracting as a promising intervention strategy for enlisting patient cooperation, particularly with regard to long-term treatment regimens. After brief examination of the theoretical background, the authors summarize advantages of contracting, describe elements essential to the development of a contract, and enu...

Comparison of the Effectiveness of Hemolysis Predictors in Contracting Nozzles

Clinic variation in the cost-effectiveness of contingency management.

This study determined whether, and by how much, the cost-effectiveness of contingency management (CM) varied across the eight clinics in the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network MIEDAR trial. Incremental costs, incremental outcomes, and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) of CM compared to usual care were calculated, compared and contrasted for each of the clinics....

A contingency model of conflict and team effectiveness.

The authors develop and test theoretical extensions of the relationships of task conflict, relationship conflict, and 2 dimensions of team effectiveness (performance and team-member satisfaction) among 2 samples of work teams in Taiwan and Indonesia. Findings show that relationship conflict moderates the task conflict-team performance relationship. Specifically, the relationship is curvilinear ...

Monitoring versus contingency contracting to increase children's compliance with home fluoride mouthrinsing.

This study repeated an experimental test of the role of the parent in children’s compliance with a home fluoride mouthrinse program. One hundred and twenty suburban and 104 inner-city children were asked to use an acidulated fluoride mouthrinse daily for 14 weeks and to return at 2-week intervals to return bottles and pick up a fresh supply of mouthrinse. Children were assigned randomly to 1 of...