ArticleInternational journal of behavioral medicine2014
The goose is (half) cooked: a consideration of the mechanisms and interpersonal context is needed to elucidate the effects of personal financial incentives on health behaviour.
Article in International journal of behavioral medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Behavioral Economic Incentive Programs for Goal Achievement on Healthy Diet, Weight Control and Physical Activity: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Healthcare providers' views on the acceptability of financial incentives for breastfeeding: a qualitative study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2014Trial
- Financial motivation undermines potential enjoyment in an intensive diet and activity intervention.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2014Trial
- Secondary data analysis from a randomized trial examining the effects of small financial incentives on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for weight loss.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- Auditing the socio-environmental determinants of motivation towards physical activity or sedentariness in work-aged adults: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2016Article
- A Simulation Modeling Framework to Optimize Programs Using Financial Incentives to Motivate Health Behavior Change.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2016Article
- What keeps a body moving? The brain-derived neurotrophic factor val66met polymorphism and intrinsic motivation to exercise in humans.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2014Article
- Addressing sleep disturbances: an opportunity to prevent cardiometabolic disease?International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) · 2014Review
- Keeping the 'Goose' on the Menu: Response to Commentaries on Financial Incentives in Health Behaviour Change.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2014Article
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Abstract
While we agree that personal financial incentives (PFIs) may have some utility in public health interventions to motivate people in the uptake and persistence of health behaviour, we disagree with some of the sentiments outlined by Lynagh et al. (Int J Behav Med 20:114-120, 2012). Specifically, we feel that the article gives a much stronger impression that PFIs will likely lead to long-term behaviour change once the incentive has been removed than is warranted by current research. This claim has not received strong empirical support nor is it grounded in psychological theory on the role of incentives and motivation. We also feel that the presentation of some of the tenets of self-determination theory by the authors is misleading. Based on self-determination theory, we propose that PFIs, without sufficient consideration of the mechanisms by which external incentives affect motivation and the interpersonal context in which they are presented, are unlikely to lead to persistence in health behaviour once the incentive is removed. We argue that interventions that adopt PFIs as a strategy to promote health-behaviour change should incorporate strategies in the interpersonal context to minimise the undermining effect of the incentives on intrinsic motivation. Interventions should present incentives as informational regarding individuals' competence rather than as purely contingent on behavioural engagement and emphasise self-determined reasons for pursuing the behaviour.
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