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Reinforcement interventions can also be applied successfully to other health areas:<\/p>\n

1. Weight Loss<\/h3>\n

a. Petry, N.M., Barry, D., Pescatello, L., and White, W.B. (2011). A low-cost reinforcement procedure improves short-term weight loss outcomes. American Journal of Medicine, 124(11), 1082-1085. PMCID: PMC3200484. doi: 10.1016\/j.amjmed.2011.04.016.<\/p>\n

b. Byrne, S., Barry, D., Petry, N. M. (2012). Predictors of weight loss success. Exercise vs. dietary self-efficacy and treatment attendance. Appetite, 58(2), 695-698. PMCID: PCM3726181. doi:10.1016\/j.appet.2012.01.005.<\/p>\n

c. Weinstock, J., and Petry, N. M. (2016). Framing financial incentives to increase physical activity among overweight and obese adults. Annals of Internal Medicine, 165(8), 599. PMCID: PMC - Journal in process. doi: 10.7326\/L16-0281.<\/p>\n

2. Enhancing Exercise<\/h3>\n

a. Andrade, L. F., Barry, D., Litt, M. D. and Petry N. M. (2014). Maintaining high activity levels in sedentary adults with a reinforcement-thinning schedule. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 47, 523-536. PMCID: PMC4778539. doi: 10.1002\/jaba.147.<\/p>\n

b. Petry, N. M., Andrade, L. F., Barry, D., and Byrne, S. (2013). A randomized study of reinforcing ambulatory exercise in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 28, 1164-1173. PMCID: PMC3966185. doi: 10.1037\/a0032563.<\/p>\n

c. Weinstock, J., Capizzi, J., Weber, S. M., Pescatello, L. S., and Petry, N. M. (2014). Exercise as an intervention for sedentary hazardous drinking college students: A pilot study. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 7, 55-62. PMCID: PMC4058428. doi:10.1016\/j.mhpa.2014.02.002.<\/p>\n

3. Medication Adherence<\/h3>\n

a. Petry, N.M., Rash, C.J., Byrne, S., Ashraf, S., and White, W.B. (2012). Financial reinforcers for improving medication adherence: Findings from a Meta-analysis. American Journal of Medicine, (9), 888-896. doi:\/10.1016.j.amjmed.2012.01.003 PMCID: PMC3432682.<\/p>\n

b. Petry, N. M., Alessi, S. M., Byrne, S., and White, W. B. (2015). Reinforcing adherence to antihypertensive medications. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 17(1), 33-8. PMCID: PMC4293311. doi: 10.1111\/jch.12441.<\/p>\n

We also currently have one grant investigating the use of reinforcement procedures to enhance medication adherence in patients with HIV: ART adherence and secondary prevention of HIV. R01DA022739 (Petry; a request to change PI status to Rash is in progress).<\/p>\n

4. Diabetes<\/h3>\n

a. Petry, N. M., Cengiz, E., Wagner, J. A., Hood, K. K., Carria, L., and Tamborlane, W. V. (2013). Incentivizing behaviour change to improve diabetes care. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 15, 1071-1076. PMCID: PMC3737360. doi: 10.1111\/dom.12111.<\/p>\n

b. Walter, K. N., and Petry, N. M. (2015). Patients with diabetes respond well to contingency management treatment targeting alcohol and substance use. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 20, 916-926. PMCID: PMC4668112. doi: 10.1080\/13548506.2014.991334.<\/p>\n

c. Petry, N. M., Cengiz, E., Wager, J., Weyman, K., Tichy, E., and Tamborlane, W. V. (2015). Testing for Rewards: A pilot study to improve Type 1 Diabetes management in adolescents. Diabetes Care, 38, 1952-1954. PMCID: PMC4580608. doi: 10.2337\/dc15-0765.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reinforcement interventions can also be applied successfully to other health areas: 1. Weight Loss a. Petry, N.M., Barry, D., Pescatello, L., and White, W.B. (2011). A low-cost reinforcement procedure improves short-term weight loss outcomes. American Journal of Medicine, 124(11), 1082-1085. PMCID: PMC3200484. doi: 10.1016\/j.amjmed.2011.04.016. b. Byrne, S., Barry, D., Petry, N. M. (2012). Predictors of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 10:30:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/contingency-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/contingency-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/contingency-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/contingency-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/contingency-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/contingency-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/contingency-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/contingency-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}