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Providing Incentives on a Smartphone-Based Mood Relapse Warning Application among Patients with Bipolar Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2023

Y.-H. Lin ,
F.-H. Cheng  and
E. C.-L. Lin
Y.-H. Lin*
Affiliation:
Nursing, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Province of China
F.-H. Cheng
Affiliation:
Nursing, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Province of China
E. C.-L. Lin
Affiliation:
Nursing, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Province of China
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Most of the research explored the attrition rate and predictive factors for the smartphone application of emotion monitoring in bipolar disorder patients. However, there is less focus on the efficacy of maintaining the retention rate if the incentive system is employed.

Objectives

The aim of our research is to evaluate the efficacy of two different kinds of incentive systems on improving frequency of using the Smartphone Mood Relapse Warning application (MRW-APP) (Su et al., 2021) in bipolar patients.

Methods

A one-group pretest-posttest pilot study was conducted. Participants with bipolar disorder (n = 63) recorded their moods and symptoms through MRW-APP for 29 weeks with the attrition rate of 44%. Two different kinds of incentive systems, reward and lottery, were implemented. To know whether incentive implementation could play a role in motivating the participants to better adhere to the app, we used Friedman’s test and paired sample t-test to analyze the participants’ app-using frequency in the corresponding weeks.

Results

There was no significant difference in the participants’ app-using frequency (p>.05) before and after we implemented the first incentive system, reward (n=63). For the second incentive system, lottery (n=41), a significant difference in app-using frequency was still not observed (p>.05) after the intervention. But, for those who both had experienced two kinds of incentive systems (n=35), there were significant changes in their app-using frequency (p<.05).Table 1.Demographics (n=63)

VariablesAll (n=63)
MeanSD
Age (n=55)36.4025.2711.10
Onset age (n=48)9.35
n%
Gender (n=54)
Female3361.1
Educational level (n=54)
Above undergraduates4074.1

SD= Standard deviation

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Conclusions

This research found the two incentive systems, award and lottery, may help increase the using frequency of the smartphone monitoring app for participants with bipolar disorder. The results from our study can be a reference for mood monitoring apps development in the future, and it also suggested that incentive system has its potential on encouraging patients’ adherence to e-healthcare.

Disclosure of Interest

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European Psychiatry , Volume 66 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 31st European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2023 , pp. S276 - S277
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