Clinical trialNCT03441399CompletedInterventional

Comparing Differing Financial Incentive Structures for Increasing Antidepressant Adherence Among Adults

SponsorUniversity of PennsylvaniaEnrollment120Depression

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Summary

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The investigators will test using financial incentives by leveraging decision-making biases to improve adherence to antidepressants among adults newly prescribed antidepressants. This study will compare the effects of usual care, increasing financial incentives, and decreasing financial incentives on daily antidepressant medication adherence and depression symptom control of non-elderly adults with Major Depressive Disorder.

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Investigators

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Steven Marcus, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

University of Pennsylvania Health System
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 1 Mar 2018
Primary completion: 26 Sept 2019
Completion: 26 Sept 2019
Last update posted: 15 Oct 2019
Registered enrollment: 120
Registry id: NCT03441399

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