Testing Financial Incentive Interventions in Dyadic-Smoker Couples

University of Georgia (UGA)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nicotine Dependence

Treatments: Behavioral: Financial Incentives

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04832360

RCA241570A

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study investigates the feasibility and efficacy of FITs in dual-smoker couples [DSCs]. The core design is a three-group mixed repeated measures design, in which participants are randomized into one of three conditions (control [CTL], dyadic target [DT] FIT or single target [ST] FIT) and tracked across 3 months. The FIT involves monetary incentives for online psychoeducation completion and smoking abstinence at follow-up.

Full description

The proposed study investigates the feasibility and efficacy of FITs in dual-smoker couples [DSCs]. The core design is a three-group mixed repeated measures design, in which participants are randomized into one of three conditions (control [CTL], dyadic target [DT] FIT or single target [ST] FIT) and tracked across 3 months. During this time, participants will complete a baseline session and a follow-up. Between these visits, all participants will have access to a voluntary brief cessation program (i.e., online psychoeducation created for this study using Beat the Pack materials and resources from NCI, NIH + Nicotine Replacement Therapy [NRT]). The FIT involves monetary incentives for online psychoeducation completion and smoking abstinence at follow-up. In the ST condition, one member of each couple (i.e., the target) will receive monetary incentives; in the DT condition, both members of the couple will receive monetary incentives. This design allows for preliminary consideration of FITs in DSCs and tests whether FITs for both members of the dyad synergistically enhances outcomes.

Enrollment: 190 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

both members:

• age of 18+
• smoke 5+ combustible cigarettes/day
• may not have participated in pilot study

Exclusion criteria

• < 8th grade capacity to read/write in English
• hospitalization in recent 6 months
• current drug or alcohol use disorder
• psychotic symptoms
• medical exclusion for use of NRT

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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190 participants in 3 patient groups

Control (CTL)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants do not receive financial incentive intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial Incentives

Single Target (ST)

Experimental group

Description:

One member of each dyadic-smoking couple will receive financial incentive intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial Incentives

Dyadic Target (DT)

Experimental group

Description:

Both members of each dyadic-smoking couple will receive financial incentive intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial Incentives