Chronically ill patients' preferences for a financial incentive in a lifestyle intervention. Results of a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The preferences of diabetes type 2 patients and cardiovascular disease patients for a financial incentive added to a specified combined lifestyle intervention were investigated.

Methods

A discrete choice experiment questionnaire was filled out by 290 diabetes type 2 patients (response rate 29.9%). Panel-mixed-logit models were used to estimate the preferences for a financial incentive. Potential uptake rates of different financial incentives and relative importance scores of the included attributes were estimated. Included attributes and levels were: form of the incentive (cash money and different types of vouchers), value of the incentive (ranging from 15 to 100 euros), moment the incentive is received (start, halfway, after finishing the intervention) and prereq

SUBMITTER: Molema C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6657823 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature