Exploring Why Financial Incentives Fail to Affect At-home Colorectal Cancer Screening: a Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite success in increasing other health behaviors, financial incentives have shown limited to no effect on colorectal cancer (CRC screening. Little is known about the factors shaping why and for whom incentives improve screening.

Objective

To explore the perspective of participants enrolled in a larger, four-arm pragmatic trial at urban family medicine practices which assessed and failed to detect significant effects of financial incentives on at-home CRC screening completion.

Design

We performed a mixed methods study with a subset of randomly selected patients, stratified by study arm, following completion of the pragmatic trial.

Participants

Sixty patients (46.9% enrollment rate) who were eligible and overdue for colorectal cancer screening at t

SUBMITTER: Clifton ABW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9411475 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature