The investigator plans to assess enrollment rates among two different enrollment methods, while providing a behavioral economic intervention to enhance the uptake of home-health monitoring devices to lower hemoglobin A1C among patients with uncontrolled diabetes. The study is focusing on enrollment methods since the standard randomized control trial only reaches 15% of the population. The study is seeking to understand the effectiveness of a behavioral intervention, when rolled out in a larger population.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
136
Every day of the 91 day intervention period participants will be asked to use each of their biometric devices. A daily lottery will be conducted automatically by the study website. Participants must use each of their two devices daily to be eligible for the lottery the following day. Winning lottery numbers will be identified by a fixed-position match between the automatically generated winning number and a participant ID number, which each participant will pick at enrollment.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Enrollment and participation rates
The primary objective is to obtain preliminary evidence regarding whether or not patients opt-into a research study, as opposed to enrolling by default, will affect participation in the program and the effectiveness of the intervention, among high-risk patients. The primary outcome is to measure enrollment rates. The investigators will also measure participation in the program through device usage.
Time frame: End of study- 6 months after enrollment
Uptake of Device Usage
Assess the effect of financial incentives on the use of home health monitoring devices among high-risk patients
Time frame: End of study- 6 months after enrollment
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