An examination of incentive strategies to increase participation in outcomes research for an adolescent inpatient unity.

Ha, C., Madan, A., Long, T. A., & Sharp, C. (2016). An examination of incentive strategies to increase participation in outcomes research for an adolescent inpatient unity. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 22(3), pp. 250-256.

In this paper the authors wanted to track the progress of young people discharged from in-patient psychiatric treatment. Maintaining young people’s commitment to such research over many months can be a challenge. It was found that relational incentives (such as on-going contact with a member of the clinical team / and or social worker) were a useful strategy for maintaining participation in the research. This highlights that incentives for participants with the highest value may not always be monetary.

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