Leveraging incentives to increase HIV testing uptake among men: qualitative insights from rural Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have explored how economic incentives influence behavioral outcomes. This study aimed to identify pathways of action of an incentives-based intervention to increase men's participation in HIV testing.

Methods

The qualitative study was embedded in a randomized-controlled trial that compared effectiveness of gain-framed, loss-framed and lottery-based incentives to increase HIV testing among men. Following testing at a community health campaign, 60 in-depth interviews were conducted with men systematically sampled on the basis of age, incentive group, and campaign attendance. Data were coded deductively and inductively for thematic content analysis.

Results

Incentives addressed men's structural, interpersonal and individual-level barriers to testin

SUBMITTER: Ndyabakira A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6937741 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature