Financial Incentives to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Longitudinal Randomized Control Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Financial incentives may improve health behaviors. We tested the impact of offering financial incentives for mailed fecal immunochemical test (FIT) completion annually for 3 years.

Methods

Patients, ages 50 to 64 years, not up-to-date with screening were randomized to receive either a mailed FIT outreach (n = 6,565), outreach plus $5 (n = 1,000), or $10 (n = 1,000) incentive for completion. Patients who completed the test were reinvited using the same incentive the following year, for 3 years. In year 4, patients who returned the kit in all preceding 3 years were reinvited without incentives. Primary outcome was FIT completion among patients offered any incentive versus outreach alone each year. Secondary outcomes were FIT completion for group

SUBMITTER: Lieberman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7008465 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature