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: 7611612
• 负责人: DAVID J FARABEE
• 金额: $ 9.99万
• 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 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7611612
• 关键词: Accounting; Addictive Behavior; Address; Affect; Area; Biological; Budgets; Businesses; Chronic; Client; Collaborations; Computer software; Consensus; Crime; Criminal Justice; Drug abuse; Drug usage; Education; Employment; Feasibility Studies; Follow-Up Studies; Funding; Incentives; Institution; Interview; Learning; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Mails; Manuals; Meta-Analysis; Methods; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Nature; Outcome; Pattern; Persons; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Pilot Projects; Population; Public Health; Randomized; Recording of previous events; Relapse; Relative (related person); Research; Research Personnel; Sampling; Schedule; Site; Substance abuse problem; Surveys; System; Technology; Technology Transfer; Telephone; Testing; Treatment outcome; Work; addiction; base; cost; design; field study; follow-up; improved; interest; payment; programs; prospective; public health relevance; substance abuser; trend; voucher

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 I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) proposal is to develop a national network that supports a rechargeable incentive card (RIC) system designed to enhance follow-up rates. Specifically, the RIC System will involve a 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 will also contain 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, will result in an automatic transfer of funds to the subjects' RIC System account. Developing this technology will require collaboration between the Calance Corporation and the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP). Together, we propose to conduct a feasibility study of the RIC System, a survey comprised of a national sample of NIH-funded substance abuse researchers, and a pilot version of the accounting/tracking software and on-site card-generating machines. The proposed project will have strong commercial potential, as it will address the common problem of low follow-up rates in field studies, and there is evidence that this approach could yield rates 30 percentage points higher than those currently typical in studies of itinerant populations (Des Jarlais et al., 2005). PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: With a current annual budget of over $1 billion, NIDA supports approximately 85% of the drug abuse research conducted worldwide. It is critical that these studies of long-term drug use patterns and treatment outcome achieve follow-up rates of at least 80%. Estimates of trends or outcomes based on studies with lower follow-up rates can be invalid and misleading. Therefore, this project directly affects public health by creating a product that improves the validity and generalizability of longitudinal substance abuse research, leading to a better understanding of the nature of drug use and how best to treat it.

描述（由申请人提供）：对于涉及药物滥用者的纵向现场研究，成功跟踪，定位和跟进代表性的受试者样本是一个挑战。一项对85项对药物滥用客户的纵向研究的荟萃分析发现，在36个月内，将近三分之一的受试者因损耗而失去了损耗（Hansen，Tobler和Graham，1990年）。这对发现药物滥用（和相关）领域的发现有效性构成了重大威胁，因为已证明低于80％的随访率会产生对药物使用和犯罪的巨大偏见估计（Nemes等，2002）。 I阶段小型企业技术转移（STTR）建议的目的是开发一个国家网络，该网络支持可充电奖励卡（RIC）系统，旨在提高随访率。具体而言，RIC系统将涉及与帐户相关的借记卡，研究人员可以在后续联系后立即转移资金（无论是电话还是面对面访谈，邮寄调查或提供生物样本的提供）。该卡还将包含一个免费电话号码，受试者可以使用该数字（每月一次一次），以通知研究人员的定位器/联系人信息。这也将导致将资金自动转移到受试者的RIC系统帐户中。开发这项技术将需要Calance Corporation与UCLA综合药物滥用计划（ISAP）之间的合作。我们共同提议对RIC系统进行可行性研究，该调查由NIH资助的滥用药物滥用研究人员组成，以及会计/跟踪软件和现场卡生成机器的试点版。拟议的项目将具有强大的商业潜力，因为它将解决现场研究中较低随访率的常见问题，并且有证据表明，这种方法可以产生比静态人群研究中当前典型的比率高30个百分点（des Jarlais等，2005）。公共卫生相关性：当前的年度预算超过10亿美元，NIDA支持了全球进行的药物滥用研究的85％。至关重要的是，这些长期使用药物使用模式和治疗结果的研究至少达到80％。基于随访率较低的研究的趋势或结果的估计可能是无效和误导性的。因此，该项目直接通过创建提高纵向药物滥用研究的有效性和普遍性的产品来直接影响公共卫生，从而更好地了解吸毒的性质以及如何最好地治疗。