Enhancing Follow-up Rates through a Rechargable Incentive Card (RIC) System

通过可充值激励卡 (RIC) 系统提高后续率

• 批准号: 8451355
• 负责人: DAVID J FARABEE
• 金额: $ 25.9万
• 依托单位: CALANCE CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-02-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8451355
• 关键词: Accounting; Achievement; Addictive Behavior; Affect; Area; Biological; Budgets; Businesses; Chronic; Client; Collaborations; Collection; Computer software; Consensus; Crime; Criminal Justice; Data; Databases; Development; Drug abuse; Drug usage; Education; Employment; Enrollment; Feasibility Studies; Funding; Gifts; Goals; Grant; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; Incentives; Industry; Institution; Interview; Laundering; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Los Angeles; Mails; Meta-Analysis; Methods; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Nature; Outcome; Outpatients; Pattern; Persons; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Pilot Projects; Population; Procedures; Public Health; Randomized; Recording of previous events; Regulation; Relapse; Research; Research Personnel; Sampling; Services; Site; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Spottings; Substance abuse problem; Surveys; System; Technology; Technology Transfer; Telephone; Testing; Time; Treatment outcome; base; commercialization; cost; design; experience; field study; follow-up; human subject; improved; innovation; payment; programs; prospective; substance abuser; treatment program; trend

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For longitudinal field studies involving substance abusers, successfully tracking, locating, and following up with a representative sample of subjects is a challenge. One meta-analysis of 85 longitudinal studies of substance abuse clients found that nearly one-third of subjects were lost to attrition within 36 months (Hansen, Tobler, & Graham, 1990). This poses a significant threat to the validity of findings in the substance abuse (and related) fields, as follow-up rates below 80% have been shown to produce dramatically biased estimates of drug use and crime (Nemes et al., 2002). The purpose of this Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) proposal is to conduct a randomized field test of the rechargeable incentive card (RIC) system developed in Phase I, and to execute a detailed plan to commercialize the finalized set of products and services. The RIC System involves an on-the-spot issued debit card linked to an account in which researchers can immediately transfer funds following a follow-up contact (whether this involves telephone or in-person interviews, mail-in surveys, or provision of biological samples). The card also contains a toll-free number that subjects can use to call (as often as once a month) to notify the researchers of changes in their locator/contact information. This, too, results in an automatic transfer of funds to the subjects' RIC System account. This technology was developed though a close collaboration between the Calance Corporation and the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP). In Phase II, this same collaborative will finalize the RIC System, commercialize it, and test its impact on follow-up rates and staff time devoted to tracking and locating subjects, using a sample of substance abusers (N=300) enrolled in three outpatient treatment programs in the Los Angeles area. The RIC System could be employed in studies involving medication, education, employment, and panel studies in many research areas, but the application holds particular promise in the field of substance abuse research which often involves itinerant, hard-to-track subjects-many of whom have criminal justice histories.

描述（由申请人提供）：对于涉及药物滥用者的纵向实地研究，成功跟踪、定位和跟踪具有代表性的受试者样本是一项挑战。一项对 85 项药物滥用客户纵向研究的荟萃分析发现，近三分之一的受试者在 36 个月内因自然减员而流失（Hansen、Tobler 和 Graham，1990）。这对药物滥用（及相关）领域调查结果的有效性构成了重大威胁，因为事实证明，低于 80% 的随访率会产生对药物使用和犯罪的严重偏差估计（Nemes 等人，2002 年）。第二阶段小型企业技术转让（STTR）提案的目的是对第一阶段开发的可充值奖励卡（RIC）系统进行随机现场测试，并执行详细计划以将最终的产品和服务商业化。 RIC 系统涉及一张现场发行的借记卡，该借记卡与一个账户相连，研究人员可以在后续联系后立即转移资金（无论这涉及电话或面对面访谈、邮寄调查还是提供生物信息）。样品）。该卡还包含一个免费电话号码，受试者可以拨打该号码（最多每月一次），以通知研究人员其定位/联系信息的变化。这也会导致资金自动转入受试者的 RIC 系统帐户。这项技术是通过 Calance 公司和加州大学洛杉矶分校综合药物滥用计划 (ISAP) 之间的密切合作开发的。在第二阶段，该合作将最终确定 RIC 系统，将其商业化，并使用三个门诊中登记的药物滥用者样本（N = 300）来测试其对随访率和工作人员用于跟踪和定位受试者的时间的影响。洛杉矶地区的治疗计划。 RIC 系统可用于涉及许多研究领域的药物、教育、就业和小组研究的研究，但该应用在药物滥用研究领域具有特别的前景，该领域通常涉及流动的、难以跟踪的主题——许多有刑事司法历史的人。