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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2008 Winter;41(4):629-33.
doi: 10.1901/jaba.2008.41-629.

The relative contribution of economic valence to contingency management efficacy: a pilot study

John M Roll  1 , Joni T Howard
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Randomized Controlled Trial

The relative contribution of economic valence to contingency management efficacy: a pilot study

John M Roll et al. J Appl Behav Anal. 2008 Winter.

Abstract

We investigated the extent to which a contingency management (CM) procedure that deducted money from a grand total available at the end of the study compared to a procedure in which money accumulated with continued abstinence from cigarette smoking. Results suggested that the procedure in which money increased contingent on abstinence resulted in a significantly greater likelihood of obtaining a clinically relevant (i.e., 48-hr) period of abstinence. In terms of attendance, participants in the condition in which monetary reinforcement accrued with consecutive instances of abstinence were significantly less likely to miss consecutive appointments than those in which money was deducted for failure to abstain.

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Cumulative records of abstinence (CO ≤ 8 ppm) for each participant in the gain and loss conditions over 15 trials.
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