Personal financial incentives for changing habitual health-related behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

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.

Methods

Multiple sources were searched for trials offering adults financial incentives and assessing outcomes relating to pre-specified behaviors at a minimum of six months from baseline. Analyses included random-effects meta-analyses and meta-regressions grouped by timed endpoints.

SUBMITTER: Mantzari E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4728181 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature