Trial reportJournal of health economics2021
Uncovering a behavioral strategy for establishing new habits: Evidence from incentives for medication adherence in Uganda.
Trial report in Journal of health economics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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INcentives and ReMINDers to Improve Long-term Medication Adherence
INcentives and ReMINDers to Improve Long-term Medication Adherence
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Impact of Behavioural Economics-Informed Interventions on the Care Cascade for Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Behavioural Economics Informed Interventions for the Prevention, Screening, and Antiretroviral Treatment of HIV Infection: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.AIDS and behavior · 2023Pooled it
- How do repeated financial incentives affect HIV care-seeking behaviours over time? Evidence from a cluster-randomised controlled trial.BMJ global health · 2026Trial
- Incentivizing adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention: a randomized pilot trial among male sex workers in Mexico.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025Trial
- Combining anchoring with financial incentives to increase physical activity: a randomized controlled trial among college students.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Trial
- Using Personalized Anchors to Establish Routine Meditation Practice With a Mobile App: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2021Trial
- A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the FIT Game's Efficacy in Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption.Nutrients · 2021Trial
- Qualitative Results from a Pilot Study of an Automated Directly Observed Therapy Intervention Using Artificial Intelligence with Conditional Economic Incentives among Young Adults with HIV.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Correlation Between Objective Habit Metrics and Objective Medication Adherence: Retrospective Study of 15,818 Participants From Clinical Studies.Interactive journal of medical research · 2025Article
- The association between adherence to antiretroviral therapy and viral suppression under dolutegravir-based regimens: an observational cohort study from Uganda.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2024Observational
- We must invest in behavioural economics for the HIV response.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
- Combining Behavioral Economics-Based Incentives With the Anchoring Strategy: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Barriers and facilitators of antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence habit formation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from a qualitative study in Kampala, Uganda.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Incentives and Reminders to Improve Long-term Medication Adherence (INMIND): Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Using Behavioral Economics to Support PrEP Adherence for HIV Prevention.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2022Review
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Abstract
Incentives are used to improve many health-related behaviors, but evidence is mixed for their effectiveness both during the incentivization period and, even more so, on the persistence of the behavior after incentives are withdrawn. In this paper, we present the results of a randomized controlled trial that successfully uses incentives to improve medication adherence among HIV-infected patients in Uganda over 20 months, and follows the sample for another 6 months to measure the persistence of these behavioral improvements. Our study contributes to the literature on habit formation by identifying a behavioral strategy that is associated with persistently high medication adherence after controlling for observable individual-level characteristics and the receipt of incentives. We find evidence supporting a psychological theory of habits as reflexive context-behavior associations, which suggests new ways of designing incentive-based interventions for better promoting persistent, healthier behaviors.
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