Smoking Cessation: Financial Incentives
Financial Incentive of Abstinence From Smoking as a Means of Recruiting Smokers With Low Socioeconomic Status to Smoking Cessation Programs in Municipalities
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Brief Summary
The aim of this intervention is to test if the investigator, by offering a financial incentive to smokers who abstinence from smoking, can:
- 1.recruit more smokers with low socioeconomic status to municipal smoking cessation programs
- 2.achieve higher abstinence rates at municipal smoking cessation programs among citizens with low economic status - Rather than by use of campaigns (=usual strategy) informing citizens about their options for support at municipal smoking cessation programs?
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Jan 2018
Typical duration for not_applicable
1 active site
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
January 1, 2018
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
February 22, 2018
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
February 21, 2019
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
December 31, 2019
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
July 30, 2020
CompletedAugust 26, 2020
August 1, 2020
2 years
February 22, 2018
August 24, 2020
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (2)
Recruitment
Can we by offering financial incentives or by running a stop-smoking campaign recruit more smokers to municipal smoking cessation programs?
12 months
Smoking cessation rates
Can we by offering financial incentives or by running a stop-smoking campaign achieve higher smoking cessation rates at municipal smoking cessation programs?
6 months and 12 months
Secondary Outcomes (2)
Recruitment of smokers with low socioeconomic status
6 weeks, 6 months and 12 months after quit date
Smoking cessation rates among citizens with low economic status
6 weeks, 6 months and 12 months after quit date
Study Arms (3)
Financial incentive
EXPERIMENTAL3 municipalities will receive 120.000 DKK for financial incentives.
Campaigns
EXPERIMENTAL3 municipalities will receive 120.000 DKK for campaigns.
Control
NO INTERVENTION6 "clean" control municipalities perform their smoking cessation activities as usual. They wont receive any financial resources. These muncipalities have not been randomly selected but have been matched (by number of smokers attending the smoking cessation groups in the municipality in 2017, the year before the intervention). 3 of them are Campaing Control group and 3 are Finacial Incentives Control group.
Interventions
Cessation programs in municipalities will offer a financial incentive of 1200 DKK to smokers who achieve continuous abstinence from smoking when attending a group-based smoking cessation program. Aimed at smokers with low socioeconomic status but other smokers are also included.
Municipalities will design anti-smoking campaigns targeting smokers, recommending to use a municipal free group-based smoking cessation program. Aimed at smokers with low socioeconomic status but other smokers are also included.
Eligibility Criteria
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Center for Clinical Research and Prevention
Frederiksberg, 2000, Denmark
Related Publications (1)
Pisinger C, Toxvaerd CG, Rasmussen M. Are financial incentives more effective than health campaigns to quit smoking? A community-randomised smoking cessation trial in Denmark. Prev Med. 2022 Jan;154:106865. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106865. Epub 2021 Nov 3.
PMID: 34740676DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Charlotta Pisinger, Professor, MD, PhD, MPH
Centre for Clinical Research and Prevention
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- PREVENTION
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Consultant Senior researcher Ass Prof
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
February 22, 2018
First Posted
February 21, 2019
Study Start
January 1, 2018
Primary Completion
December 31, 2019
Study Completion
July 30, 2020
Last Updated
August 26, 2020
Record last verified: 2020-08