Reduction of Financial Health Incentives and Changes in Physical Activity.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Governments and others continue to use financial incentives to influence citizen health behaviors like physical activity. However, when delivered on a population scale they can be prohibitively costly, suggesting more sustainable models are needed.

Objectives

To evaluate the association of incomplete financial incentive withdrawal ("schedule thinning") with physical activity after more than a year of incentive intervention and to explore whether participant characteristics (eg, app engagement and physical activity) are associated with withdrawal outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

This case-control study with a pre-post quasi-experimental design included users of a government-funded health app focused on financial incentives. Eligible participants w

SUBMITTER: Spilsbury S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10632955 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature