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Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2014 Mar 19;7:103-14. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S59792. eCollection 2014.

The ABCs of incentive-based treatment in health care: a behavior analytic framework to inform research and practice.

Psychology research and behavior management

Steven E Meredith, Brantley P Jarvis, Bethany R Raiff, Alana M Rojewski, Allison Kurti, Rachel N Cassidy, Philip Erb, Jolene R Sy, Jesse Dallery

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  2. Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
  3. Department of Psychology, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA.
  4. Saint Louis University School of Social work, St Louis, MO, USA.

PMID: 24672264 PMCID: PMC3964160 DOI: 10.2147/PRBM.S59792

Abstract

Behavior plays an important role in health promotion. Exercise, smoking cessation, medication adherence, and other healthy behavior can help prevent, or even treat, some diseases. Consequently, interventions that promote healthy behavior have become increasingly common in health care settings. Many of these interventions award incentives contingent upon preventive health-related behavior. Incentive-based interventions vary considerably along several dimensions, including who is targeted in the intervention, which behavior is targeted, and what type of incentive is used. More research on the quantitative and qualitative features of many of these variables is still needed to inform treatment. However, extensive literature on basic and applied behavior analytic research is currently available to help guide the study and practice of incentive-based treatment in health care. In this integrated review, we discuss how behavior analytic research and theory can help treatment providers design and implement incentive-based interventions that promote healthy behavior.

Keywords: conditional cash transfer; contingency management; incentives; pay-for-performance; wellness

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