Financial incentives to change patient behaviour

Acceptability of financial incentives for health behaviour change to public health policymakers: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND Providing financial incentives contingent on healthy behaviours is one way to encourage healthy behaviours. However, there remains substantial concerns with the acceptability of health promoting financial incentives (HPFI). Previous research has studied acceptability of HPFI to the public, recipients and practitioners. We are not aware of any previous work that has focused particular...

The Effectiveness of Financial Incentives for Health Behaviour Change: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND Financial incentive interventions have been suggested as one method of promoting healthy behaviour change. OBJECTIVES To conduct a systematic review of the effectiveness of financial incentive interventions for encouraging healthy behaviour change; to explore whether effects vary according to the type of behaviour incentivised, post-intervention follow-up time, or incentive value. ...

“Pay them if it works”: Discrete choice experiments on the acceptability of financial incentives to change health related behaviour

The use of financial incentives to change health-related behaviour is often opposed by members of the public. We investigated whether the acceptability of incentives is influenced by their effectiveness, the form the incentive takes, and the particular behaviour targeted. We conducted discrete choice experiments, in 2010 with two samples (n = 81 and n = 101) from a self-selected online panel, a...

Financial Incentives to Postpone Retirement

Should we pay the patient? Review of financial incentives to enhance patient compliance.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether financial incentives increase patients' compliance with healthcare treatments. DATA SOURCES Systematic literature review of computer databases--Medline, Embase, PsychLit, EconLit, and the Cochrane Database of Clinical Trials. In addition, the reference list of each retrieved article was reviewed and relevant citations retrieved. STUDY SELECTION Only randomised...