Willingness to Participate in a Daily Smartphone Well-being Study

University of Manchester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Willingness to Participate

Treatments: Behavioral: Social Incentive Email; Behavioral: No Incentive Email; Behavioral: Financial Incentive Email

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06862999

2023-17042-30162

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

The goal of this clinical trial is to investigate the comparison of two incentives to determine their effectiveness for motivating an urban population to participate in a Experience Sampling Method wellbeing studies. It will also investigate alternative incentive preferences that can motivate the population. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does the provision of a financial incentive or social incentive to neighbourhood research participants increase the willingness of individuals to participate in ESM research compared to offering no incentive?
• What are the reasons for unwillingness to participate in ESM studies?
• What are the alternative incentive preference that could increase willingness to participate in ESM studies?

Researchers will compare monetary incentive (4 x £100 prize draw qualification) to a non-monetary incentive (invitation to end of project social event to engage research findings) to how they influence willingness to participate compared to offering no incentive.

Participants will:

• Receive receive an email describing a future experience sampling study in the neighbourhood for at least two times.
• Complete a survey to indicate their positive or negative interest in the hypothetical study.

Enrollment: 324 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 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.

Exclusion criteria

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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324 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Control Group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

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

Treatment:

Behavioral: No Incentive Email

Financial Incentive Group

Experimental group

Description:

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

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial Incentive Email

Non-Financial Incentive Group

Experimental group

Description:

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

Treatment:

Behavioral: Social Incentive Email