Non-integrated Costs Increase Effectiveness of Incentives

Control - No Incentive for Flu Vaccine Clinical Trial

Official title:

Non-integrated Costs Increase Effectiveness of Incentives

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03507231
• Other study ID #: P30AG0345462017
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 24, 2018
• Last updated: April 23, 2018
• Start date: September 20, 2017
• Est. completion date: January 20, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: April 2018
• Source: Carnegie Mellon University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Description:

The investigators will send e-mails to a complete mailing list of faculty and staff at a university. Each recipient will be randomly assigned to one of three conditions: control, main task incentive or indirect incentive. Our main dependent variable will be whether or not participants decide to get vaccinated. The investigators will obtain their actual vaccination records from the university Occupational Health Department.

Within the e-mail message, participants will indicate whether or not they intend to get vaccinated. Intention serves as an indirect dependent outcome. Upon clicking to indicate their intention, participants are redirected to a page which gives further instructions on how to proceed.

Participants who vaccinate will be asked to complete a brief follow-up questionnaire to evaluate their experience with vaccination and (for those offered and incentive) to provide contact information to receive their payment.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 12531
• Est. completion date: January 20, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: January 20, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 100 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must be faculty or staff at Rutgers University.

Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

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

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Email Message
Participants will randomly receive an e-mail message about the availability of free flu vaccines.
• Incentive for Vaccination
$5 gift card offered for vaccination
• Incentive for completing a short survey
$5 gift card offered for completing s short survey after one gets vaccinated

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Rutgers University	New Brunswick	New Jersey

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Carnegie Mellon University	Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (2)

Chapman GB, Li M, Colby H, Yoon H. Opting in vs opting out of influenza vaccination. JAMA. 2010 Jul 7;304(1):43-4. doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.892. — View Citation

Halpern SD, French B, Small DS, Saulsgiver K, Harhay MO, Audrain-McGovern J, Loewenstein G, Brennan TA, Asch DA, Volpp KG. Randomized trial of four financial-incentive programs for smoking cessation. N Engl J Med. 2015 May 28;372(22):2108-17. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1414293. Epub 2015 May 13. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of people vaccinated	Measure the number of people who got vaccinated in the Fall 2017 semester at a large state university. We will collect vaccination records from the university Occupational Health Department	Up to 5 months
Secondary	Intention to get vaccinated	Participants will receive an e-mail with our main treatment manipulations. In each e-mail they will be able to indicate whether or not they want to get vaccinated. We will use this measure as a second dependent variable.	Up to 5 months