An Adaptive Optimization Approach to Personalized Financial Incentives in Mobile Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00444v2
• Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:25:17 GMT
• Title: An Adaptive Optimization Approach to Personalized Financial Incentives in Mobile Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions
• Authors: Qiaomei Li, Kara L. Gavin, Corrine I. Voils, Yonatan Mintz
• Abstract summary: We create a machine learning approach that is able to predict how individuals may react to different incentive schedules. We use this predictive model in an adaptive framework that computes what incentives to disburse to participants and remain within the study budget.
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• Abstract: Obesity is a critical healthcare issue affecting the United States. The least risky treatments available for obesity are behavioral interventions meant to promote diet and exercise. Often these interventions contain a mobile component that allows interventionists to collect participants level data and provide participants with incentives and goals to promote long term behavioral change. Recently, there has been interest in using direct financial incentives to promote behavior change. However, adherence is challenging in these interventions, as each participant will react differently to different incentive structure and amounts, leading researchers to consider personalized interventions. The key challenge for personalization, is that the clinicians do not know a priori how best to administer incentives to participants, and given finite intervention budgets how to disburse costly resources efficiently. In this paper, we consider this challenge of designing personalized weight loss interventions that use direct financial incentives to motivate weight loss while remaining within a budget. We create a machine learning approach that is able to predict how individuals may react to different incentive schedules within the context of a behavioral intervention. We use this predictive model in an adaptive framework that over the course of the intervention computes what incentives to disburse to participants and remain within the study budget. We provide both theoretical guarantees for our modeling and optimization approaches as well as demonstrate their performance in a simulated weight loss study. Our results highlight the cost efficiency and effectiveness of our personalized intervention design for weight loss.

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