Feasibility of a Mobile Group Financial-Incentives Intervention Among Pairs of Smokers With a Prior Social Relationship.
Smoking is associated with a number of chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease and various types of cancer. The decision to smoke can be conceptualized as preference for small, immediate rewards (e.g., relief from withdrawal) over larger, delayed rewards (e.g., good health). Cont...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Record Vol. 67; no. 2; pp. 231 - 240 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=122919051&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 122919051 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00332933 PSD jtl: Psychological Record issn: 00332933 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2017 vid: 67 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 122919051 10.1007/s40732-017-0238-z ppf: 231 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 495KB tig: atl: Feasibility of a Mobile Group Financial-Incentives Intervention Among Pairs of Smokers With a Prior Social Relationship. aug: au: Raiff, Bethany Arena, Amy Meredith, Steven Grabinksi, Michael affil: Department of Psychology , Rowan University , 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro 08028 USA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Baltimore USA Red 5 Group, LLC , New York USA su: Health Smoking Chronic diseases Monetary incentives Smoking cessation sug: subj: Health Smoking Chronic diseases All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services All other ambulatory health care services Monetary incentives Smoking cessation keyword: Contingency management Delay discounting Financial incentives Smartphones Social support Contingency management Delay discounting Financial incentives Smartphones Social support ab: Smoking is associated with a number of chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease and various types of cancer. The decision to smoke can be conceptualized as preference for small, immediate rewards (e.g., relief from withdrawal) over larger, delayed rewards (e.g., good health). Contingency management (CM) takes advantage of this preference for immediate outcomes by delivering incentives, usually financial, for making the healthier choice to abstain from smoking. The current study tested the feasibility of harnessing naturally occurring social contingencies associated with smoking cessation to increase the promise of CM in initiating and sustaining long-term abstinence. Pairs of smokers with an existing relationship (i.e., friends, roommates, family, significant others) were recruited to quit together in the context of a smartphone-delivered, group CM intervention. Approximately 50% of interested participants identified a partner who also met criteria to participate, and five pairs ( N = 10) completed the study. Using a within-subject design, participants could earn individual financial incentives for submitting breath carbon monoxide (CO) samples twice daily that met targeted goals for abstinence, and they could earn bonus incentives when both members of the pair met their targets together. Nine participants (90%) successfully reduced their mean breath CO during the intervention relative to baseline conditions. Individuals within a pair performed similarly to one another, for better or worse (i.e., both participants abstained, smoked, or missed samples at the same time). The social contingencies of quitting with someone with whom the smoker has an existing relationship may be helpful, but may also introduce unique challenges, particularly with regard to recruitment and treatment retention. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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