Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors

Derksen, Laura; Kerwin, Jason; Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz; Sterck, Olivier

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2110.06876

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“…Looking closer at the group that was offered appointments, two-thirds of the men in the appointment offer arm decided to schedule an appointment, and 34% of those who made an appointment got tested. 51 A study in Thailand had similar results. Adults at a clinic who tested negative were randomized into one of three arms for a subsequent HIV test: making an appointment before they left the clinic, being sent a reminder to make an appointment, and a standard of care arm.…”

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Applications of Behavioral Economics to HIV Programs in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Scoping Review Using the EAST Framework

Long,

Devine

2023

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Despite significant gains and successes in many areas, progress in HIV prevention and treatment is uneven, highlighted in the 2022 UNAIDS reportIn Danger, and certain populations are being left behind. In particular, men and adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) are among the groups in danger of not reaching epidemic control targets. Among other calls for utilizing scientific innovations, PEPFAR’s Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy recently highlighted the need to expand the use of innovative methods from behavioral science in HIV programs. One of these innovative, but underused, approaches is behavioral economics (BE), which leverages our predictable cognitive biases and mental shortcuts to both diagnose behavioral factors and positively influence behavior. The tools used by BE to change behavior are frequently called nudges, which tend to be low-cost and easy-to-implement interventions. This scoping review identified nudges applied to select client and provider behaviors along the HIV prevention, testing, and care and treatment continuum. It maps them to the commonly used EAST Framework, a simplified way to classify nudges for program design and highlights those that shifted behavior. The EAST Framework groups nudges into Easy, Attractive, Social, and Timely categories. This scoping review identified that Easy nudges were commonly applied as changes to the structure of HIV programs, influencing individual behavior through program changes. Nudges that directly targeted individuals most commonly fell into the Attractive and Social categories. Many of the individual-focused nudges in the Attractive and Social categories changed behavior, along with Easy nudges. Additionally, the mapping highlighted the dearth of nudges applied to provider behavior in the Low and Middle Income (LMIC) HIV space. Further integration of nudges into HIV programs and their evaluation using implementation science may help move the needle to end the HIV epidemic as a public health threat by 2030.

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“…The "Timely" category of nudges includes different degrees of plan making as well as sending reminders to individuals. 9,12,16,17,40,51,[54][55][56][57][58] Plan making…”

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Applications of Behavioral Economics to HIV Programs in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Scoping Review Using the EAST Framework

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Devine

2023

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“…Results are robust to excluding P HH from regressions (Tables A.5 and A.9 in Appendix). 8 When analysing host perceptions across the three countries ( with fourth-degree polynomials along with all first-order interactions and the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation of continuous variables (Knaus & Lechner, 2020;Derksen, Kerwin, Reynoso, & Sterck, 2021). We also estimate specifications without control variables.…”

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“…Our pre-analysis plan did not specify how control variables and fixed effects would be selected and how the double LASSO procedure would be implemented. We follow the approach outlined inDerksen et al (2021) to guide our decisions. Results are qualitatively similar without control variables and enumerator fixed effects (Appendix F).…”

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With or without him? Experimental Evidence on Gender-Sensitive Cash Grants and Trainings in Tunisia

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Khan²,

Mvukiyehe³

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors

Cited by 3 publications

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Applications of Behavioral Economics to HIV Programs in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Scoping Review Using the EAST Framework

Applications of Behavioral Economics to HIV Programs in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Scoping Review Using the EAST Framework

Refugees welcome? Inter-group interaction and host community attitude formation

With or without him? Experimental Evidence on Gender-Sensitive Cash Grants and Trainings in Tunisia

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