Incentives & Motivation for Behavior Change: Survey-embedded Experiments

University of Pennsylvania2 个研究点分布在 1 个国家目标入组 4,000 人开始时间: 2021年2月7日最近更新: 2024年2月15日

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试验速览

阶段: 不适用
状态: 已完成
发起方: University of Pennsylvania
入组人数: 4,000
试验地点: 2
主要终点: measure of whether they are interested in RCT enrollment (for sleep or exercise)

研究概览研究设计入排标准研究组 & 干预措施结局指标研究者研究点记录与标识符相似试验

研究概览

简要总结

In a series of controlled, randomized experiments, we will systematically manipulate exposure to health-related messages and/or survey methods to examine the effects on behavioral intention.

There are various strategies used to influence health-related decision making and the effects of health behavior have had mixed results. In particular, incentive-based interventions have often failed to increase healthy behavior. We will examine 1) the role of behavioral motivation to increase sleep or exercise and 2) current levels of sleep or exercise when predicting who is interested in a mock RCT invitation to increase each behavior using financial or social incentives.

In addition to the above focus on sleep and exercise, we will also examine another important health behavior: vaccination. Embedded within experiments studying effects of incentives on vaccination decisions, will conduct methodological tests. In particular, we will estimate the effects of using different methods of measuring the study outcome (vaccine intention).

详细描述

Incentives for Sleep and Exercise:

This experiment will estimate enrollment bias for randomized clinical trials offering to incentivize behavior change. In this experiment, we will test whether those who are most motivated to change behavior are also most likely to enroll in a (hypothetical) RCT when offering financial or social incentives for behavior change.

We hypothesize that those most likely to enroll are already motivated to change their behavior prior to enrollment, which could be bias trials towards the null. We will test this hypothesis by estimating if motivation to change a behavior predicts interest in joining RCT targeting that behavior. We will also test if baseline behavior predicts interest in joining these RCT.

We will conduct this experiment using mock invitations to learn about and potentially join a RCT. The study outcome will be responses to this invitation. We will not offer invitations to an actual trial, but the stimuli (mock invitations to a "ghost" trial) and task (response to the invitation) fundamentally resemble a trial's counterparts. The invitations will specify an opportunity to earn financial or social incentives for improving a healthy behavior.

We will invite participants to earn financial or non-financial incentives for increasing their sleep or exercise. In this study, the primary outcome will measure if they were "not interested," "slightly interested," or "very interested" in participating.

研究设计

研究类型: Interventional
分配方式: Randomized
干预模型: Parallel
主要目的: Other
盲法: Single (Participant)

盲法说明

The participant will not know the s/he has been randomized to a particular condition. S/he will not know about the other conditions, or the differences between them.

入排标准

年龄范围: 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
性别: All
接受健康志愿者: 是

入选标准

•Adults (18 years or older)
•residing in the US
•unvaccinated for COVID-19

排除标准

•those living outside the US
•vaccination