Pilot Randomized Control Trial of Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation
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Official title
Financial Incentive Structures for Smoking Cessation: A Pilot Randomized Trial
Brief summary
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Financial incentives may be more effective than other approaches to smoking cessation, but research is needed to identify the optimal structures of incentives. The investigators will conduct a pilot randomized trial comparing different incentive structures for smoking cessation. Collaborating with Walgreens leadership, the investigators will enroll their employees in this RCT using the investigators new web-based research infrastructure (called the Way to Health platform, and approved as a Prime protocol by the IRB as reference # 811860). Hypothesis: providing patients with financial incentives can promote healthier behaviors (e.g.: quit smoking).
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01303081
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 63 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Individual Rewards Behavioral
- Fixed Deposits Behavioral
- Chosen Deposits Behavioral
- Competitive Deposits (Pari-Mutuel) Behavioral
- Usual Care Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 2011 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Jun 2012 (Actual)
- Completion
- Jun 2012 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Aug 2, 2012
2011 – 2012
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
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- Last update posted Aug 2, 2012 · Synced Oct 17, 2026
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