Deren S, Stephens R, Davis W R, Feucht T E, Tortu S
Institute for AIDS Research, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York City.
Public Health Rep. 1994 Jul-Aug;109(4):548-54.
The research literature on AIDS prevention efforts contains many reports on the impact of intervention sessions. Little information is available, however, on the success of various strategies to recruit clients to attend these sessions. An assessment of the comparative impact of money and other types of incentives on group attendance in two AIDS risk reduction projects, in the Harlem area of New York City and in Cleveland, OH, was undertaken. In both projects, injecting drug users and the sex partners of injecting drug users were recruited to participate in group sessions that focused on the reduction of AIDS risk behaviors. Data on group attendance were analyzed for 838 people in the New York project and 1,168 in the Ohio project. After the projects were underway, attendance incentives at both were changed from money to food coupons or gift certificates. Results indicated that a nonmonetary incentive was associated with a significant decline in group attendance. Concerns regarding paying monetary incentives to injecting drug users are discussed.
关于艾滋病预防工作的研究文献中有许多关于干预课程影响的报告。然而，关于招募客户参加这些课程的各种策略的成效，可用信息却很少。我们对纽约市哈莱姆区和俄亥俄州克利夫兰的两个降低艾滋病风险项目中，金钱和其他类型激励措施对团体参与度的比较影响进行了评估。在这两个项目中，招募了注射吸毒者及其性伴侣参加专注于减少艾滋病风险行为的团体课程。对纽约项目中的838人和俄亥俄项目中的1168人进行了团体参与度数据分析。项目开展后，两个项目的参与激励措施都从金钱改为食品券或礼品券。结果表明，非货币激励与团体参与度的显著下降有关。文中还讨论了向注射吸毒者支付货币激励的相关问题。
