Willingness to Participate in a Daily Smartphone Well-being Study

NCT06862999 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2023-17042-30162
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 324
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This clinical trial aims to compare the effectiveness of financial and social incentives in motivating urban populations to participate in Experience Sampling Method (ESM) wellbeing studies and explore alternative incentive preferences to increase participation.

Conditions

Willingness to Participate

Keywords

Experience Sampling Method; Willingness to Participate; Neighbourhood studies

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Willingness to participate

  Measure the proportion of participants in each arm who agree to participate in the experience sampling study.

  From enrollment to the end of treatment at 7 weeks

Other Outcomes (2)

• Reasons for non-participation

  From enrollment to the end of treatment at 7 weeks

• Alternative Incentive Preferences

  From enrollment to the end of treatment at 7 weeks

Study Arms (3)

Control Group

PLACEBO COMPARATOR

Participants in this group will receive no incentive for participating in the future experience sampling study.

Behavioral: No Incentive Email

Financial Incentive Group

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants in this group will receive a financial incentive for participating in the future experience sampling study.

Behavioral: Financial Incentive Email

Non-Financial Incentive Group

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants in this group will receive a non-financial incentive for participating in the future experience sampling study.

Behavioral: Social Incentive Email

Interventions

No Incentive Email BEHAVIORAL

Participant will receive an email describing a hypothetical experience sampling study that will happen in King's Cross where he or she is an inhabitant as a worker, resident, or visitor. However, this email will not include any promised compensation for future participation in the hypothetical wellbeing study in the neighbourhood. This group serves as the control group to compare the effects of incentives on participation rates.

Control Group

Financial Incentive Email BEHAVIORAL

Participant will receive an email describing a hypothetical experience sampling study that will happen in King\'s Cross where he or she is an inhabitant as a worker, resident, or visitor. This email will include a paragraph that describes a compensation for participation in the future study. The type of compensation that will be offered is a financial compensation, which is a chance of enter a prize draw to win a 4 X £100 voucher which can be used to purchase goods and services within the King\'s Cross neighbourhood in London.

Financial Incentive Group

Social Incentive Email BEHAVIORAL

Participant will receive an email describing a hypothetical experience sampling study that will happen in King\'s Cross where he or she is an inhabitant as a worker, resident, or visitor. This email will include a paragraph that describes a compensation for participation in the future study. The type of compensation that will be offered is a non-financial compensation, which is an invitation to participate in a social event that will be organised by the researchers and the neighbourhood asset manager team at the end of the research project. This event will be exclusive and it will be an opportunity for participants to socialize with other study participants in the neighbourhood. It will also be an opportunity for the study participants to feel they are contributing a change to the neighbourhood and will be able to articulate their views about the wellbeing research findings which is expected to be used to inform future interventions in the neighbourhood.

Non-Financial Incentive Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Registered on the King's Cross community smartphone application.
• App users living, working, or have previously visited King\'s Cross
• Given consent to receive email communications during their smartphone app sign-up.

You may not qualify if:

• Users of the King's Cross community smartphone app who have not given consent to receive email communication about the neighbourhood

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Manchester: lead
• Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Related Argent

London, Greater London, N1C 4AB, United Kingdom

Location

Study Officials

• Lesley-Anne Carter

  University of Manchester

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Jack Benton

  University of Manchester

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Jamie Anderson

  University of Manchester

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: TRIPLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 5, 2025
• First Posted: March 7, 2025
• Study Start: September 12, 2024
• Primary Completion: November 30, 2024
• Study Completion: November 30, 2024
• Last Updated: March 11, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ANALYTIC CODE
• Time Frame: Data requests can be submitted starting 12 months after article publication and the duration the data will be made accessible for is based on the terms and conditions attached to the ReShare platform where the data will be archived.
• Access Criteria: Access to trial IPD can be requested by qualified researchers engaging in independent scientific research

Locations

GB (1)