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Reminders, but not monetary incentives, increase COVID-19 booster uptake.


ABSTRACT: Despite substantially decreasing the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19, COVID-19 booster vaccination rates remain low around the world. A key question for public health agencies is how to increase booster vaccination rates, particularly among high-risk groups. We conducted a large preregistered randomized controlled trial (with 57,893 study subjects) in a county health system in northern California to test the impact of personal reminder messages and small financial incentives of $25 on booster vaccination rates. We found that reminders increased booster vaccination rates within 2 wk by 0.86 percentage points (P = 0.000) or nearly 33% off the control mean of 2.65%. Monetary incentives had no additional impact on vaccination rates. The results highlight the potential of low-cost targeted messages, but not small financial incentives, to increase booster vaccination rates.

SUBMITTER: Chang TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10400997 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Reminders, but not monetary incentives, increase COVID-19 booster uptake.

Chang Tom Y TY   Jacobson Mireille M   Shah Manisha M   Kopetsky Matthew M   Pramanik Rajiv R   Shah Samir B SB  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20230724 31


Despite substantially decreasing the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19, COVID-19 booster vaccination rates remain low around the world. A key question for public health agencies is how to increase booster vaccination rates, particularly among high-risk groups. We conducted a large preregistered randomized controlled trial (with 57,893 study subjects) in a county health system in northern California to test the impact of personal reminder messages and small financial incentives of $  ...[more]

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