Treatments and supplements · Financial incentives for healthy behaviour

Would getting paid to be healthy actually work?

What we can tell you today: how thoroughly this has been studied.

Well studied

3 studies, including 2 that bring together the results of several trials in people.

5 Repeated evidence 2 studies

4 Large controlled trial 1 study

This says how thoroughly something has been studied — not whether it works for you. What each study actually found is in the study itself, and in the plain-language write-ups we are adding.

Appears under: Living longer in good health · Weight loss and GLP-1

The studies

5 Repeated evidence Behavioural incentive interventions for health behaviour change in young people (5-18 years old): A systematic review and meta-analysis.
2019 · Preventive medicine · 8,392 participants
5 Repeated evidence Financial incentives for a healthy life style and disease prevention among older people: a systematic literature review.
2017 · BMC health services research
4 Large controlled trial Randomized controlled trial of financial incentives during weight-loss induction and maintenance in online group weight control.
2022 · Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 418 participants