Willingness to Participate in a Daily Smartphone Well-being Study

Summary

This clinical trial aims to compare the effectiveness of financial and social incentives in motivating urban populations to participate in Experience Sampling Method (ESM) wellbeing studies and explore alternative incentive preferences to increase participation.

Conditions

• Willingness to Participate

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

No Incentive Email

Participant will receive an email describing a hypothetical experience sampling study that will happen in King's Cross where he or she is an inhabitant as a worker, resident, or visitor. However, this email will not include any promised compensation for future participation in the hypothetical wellbeing study in the neighbourhood. This group serves as the control group to compare the effects of incentives on participation rates.

BEHAVIORAL

Financial Incentive Email

Participant will receive an email describing a hypothetical experience sampling study that will happen in King\'s Cross where he or she is an inhabitant as a worker, resident, or visitor. This email will include a paragraph that describes a compensation for participation in the future study. The type of compensation that will be offered is a financial compensation, which is a chance of enter a prize draw to win a 4 X £100 voucher which can be used to purchase goods and services within the King\'s Cross neighbourhood in London.

BEHAVIORAL

Social Incentive Email

Participant will receive an email describing a hypothetical experience sampling study that will happen in King\'s Cross where he or she is an inhabitant as a worker, resident, or visitor. This email will include a paragraph that describes a compensation for participation in the future study. The type of compensation that will be offered is a non-financial compensation, which is an invitation to participate in a social event that will be organised by the researchers and the neighbourhood asset manager team at the end of the research project. This event will be exclusive and it will be an opportunity for participants to socialize with other study participants in the neighbourhood. It will also be an opportunity for the study participants to feel they are contributing a change to the neighbourhood and will be able to articulate their views about the wellbeing research findings which is expected to be used to inform future interventions in the neighbourhood.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Manchester

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Lesley-Anne Carter · University of Manchester

• Jack Benton · University of Manchester

• Jamie Anderson · University of Manchester

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

TRIPLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-09-12

Primary Completion

2024-11-30

Completion

2024-11-30

Countries

• United Kingdom

Study Locations