Adolescent and parent perspectives on the acceptability of financial incentives to promote self-care in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An understanding of acceptability among potential intervention participants is critical to the design of successful real-world financial incentive (FI) programs. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore adolescent and parent perspectives on the acceptability of using FI to promote engagement in diabetes self-care in adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Methods

Focus groups with 46 adolescents with T1D (12-17 years old) and 39 parents of adolescents with T1D were conducted in the Seattle metropolitan area. Semistructured questions addressed participants' current use of incentives to promote change in diabetes self-care and receptivity to a theoretical incentive program administered by a third-party. Qualitative data were analyzed and emergent themes

SUBMITTER: Malik FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7663046 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature