Impact and Costs of Incentives to Reduce Attrition in Online Trials: Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Impact and Costs of Incentives to Reduce Attrition in Online Trials: Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Impact and Costs of Incentives to Reduce Attrition in Online Trials: Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Zarnie Khadjesari   1 ;   Elizabeth Murray   1 ;   Eleftheria Kalaitzaki   2 ;   Ian R. White   3 ;   Jim McCambridge   4 ;   Simon G. Thompson   3 ;   Paul Wallace   1 ;   Christine Godfrey   5

1 E-health Unit, Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

2 MRC General Practice Research Framework, London, United Kingdom

3 MRC Biostatistics Unit,, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom

4 Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

5 Department of Health Sciences and HYMS, University of York, York, United Kingdom

†deceased

Corresponding Author:

  • Zarnie Khadjesari
  • E-health Unit
  • Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health
  • University College London
  • Royal Free Hospital
  • Rowland Hill Street
  • London, NW3 2PF
  • United Kingdom
  • Phone: 44 20 7794 0500 ext 3882
  • Fax: 44 20 7794 1224
  • Email: z.khadjesari@ucl.ac.uk