Trial reportClinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association2021
Effect of Behavioral Economic Incentives for Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Randomized Trial.
Trial report in Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03068052 (Behavioral Economic Incentives and Cancer Health Risk Assessment), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Behavioral Economic Incentives and Cancer Health Risk Assessment
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Video Interventions for Reducing Health Inequity in Cancer Screening Programmes: a Systematic Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Pooled it
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- Addition of Financial Incentives to Mailed Outreach for Promoting Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2021Pooled it
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- Effect of Patient Portal Messaging Before Mailing Fecal Immunochemical Test Kit on Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Access or Engagement: The Potential Role of Financial Incentives in Colorectal Cancer Screening.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2026Article
- A global scoping review of interventions to increase participation in screening programmes for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer between 2016 and 2025.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Protocol for a type 3 hybrid implementation cluster randomized clinical trial to evaluate the effect of patient and clinician nudges to advance the use of genomic medicine across a diverse health system.Implementation science : IS · 2024Article
- Testing an insurance-based monetary incentive program for exercise: RCT design and rationale.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
- Interventions to reduce cancer screening inequities: the perspective and role of patients, advocacy groups, and empowerment organizations.International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of behavioural economics-based interventions to improve colorectal cancer screening participation: A rapid systematic review of randomised controlled trials.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND &
aimsFinancial incentives might increase participation in prevention such as screening colonoscopy. We studied whether incentives informed by behavioral economics increase participation in risk assessment for colorectal cancer (CRC) and completion of colonoscopy for eligible adults.
methodsEmployees of a large academic health system (50-64 y old; n = 1977) were randomly assigned to groups that underwent risk assessment for CRC screening and direct access colonoscopy scheduling (control), or risk assessment, direct access colonoscopy scheduling, a $10 loss-framed incentive to complete risk assessment, and a $25 unconditional incentive for colonoscopy completion (incentive). The primary outcome was the percentage of participants who completed screening colonoscopy within 3 months of initial outreach. Secondary outcomes included the percentage of participants who scheduled colonoscopy and the percentage who completed the risk assessment.
resultsAt 3 months, risk assessment was completed by 19.5% of participants in the control group (95% CI, 17.0-21.9%) and 31.9% of participants in the incentive group (95% CI, 29.0-34.8%) (P < .001). At 3 months, 0.7% of controls had completed a colonoscopy (95% CI, .2%-1.2%) compared with 1.2% of subjects in the incentive group (95% CI, .5%-1.9%) (P = .25).
conclusionsIn a randomized trial of participants who underwent risk assessment for CRC with vs without financial incentive, the financial incentive increased CRC risk assessment completion but did not result in a greater completion of screening colonoscopy. Clinicaltrials.gov no: NCT03068052.
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