Non-integrated Costs Increase Effectiveness of Incentives

NCT03507231 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12531

Last updated 2018-04-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators will test the hypothesis that the control (no incentive) condition will have the lowest vaccination rate, the main task condition will have a significantly higher vaccination rate while the indirect condition will have the highest vaccination rate.

Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the three message conditions and their vaccination records obtained from the university Occupational Health Department.

Conditions

  • Control - No Incentive for Flu Vaccine
  • Direct Incentive
  • Indirect Incentive

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Email Message

Participants will randomly receive an e-mail message about the availability of free flu vaccines.

BEHAVIORAL

Incentive for Vaccination

$5 gift card offered for vaccination

BEHAVIORAL

Incentive for completing a short survey

$5 gift card offered for completing s short survey after one gets vaccinated

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • George Loewenstein, PhD · Carnegie Mellon University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-09-20
Primary Completion
2018-01-20
Completion
2018-01-20

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Entities

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT03507231 on ClinicalTrials.gov