I Can Earn What?!: Using Incentive Programs to Empower Patients with Chronic Illness

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Patients with chronic illness often struggle with adhering to their treatment regimens. This presentation will introduce two incentive programs used to empower patients to adhere to dietary restrictions and medications. It will include how the programs were designed and implemented, data management, interdisciplinary collaboration, and patient involvement. Ideas for using incentive programs with other patient populations will be introduced.

Objectives:

Understand the difference between adherence and compliance and be able to list three reasons why chronic pediatric patients may not adhere to their medical regimens.
Understand the premise of each incentive program used by the authors and identify the steps taken to initiate and maintain each one.
Define key behavioral analysis terms presented and describe how they are applicable to child life practice and incentive programs in particular.
List potential applications for incentive programs in other chronic patient populations.

DOMAIN: Intervention; 1 PDU

Robyn Snyder

MS, CCLS

Robyn has a Bachelor's degree in Special Education from Boston University, and a Master's degree in Behavioral Education (Applied Behavior Analysis) from Simmons College. Before ever hearing about child life, Robyn was a special education teacher and a behavior specialist in school settings. Robyn has been a child life specialist for 16 years, and has worked at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) for the past 12 years. She has worked with patients in intensive care, the emergency department, the dialysis unit, and the cleft lip/palate and craniofacial clinics while at BCH. Prior to that, she completed her internship and then worked on a neuroscience unit and an endocrinology/clinical research unit at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. In her free time, Robyn enjoys spending time with her family and friends, taking walks, playing board/card/tile games, and traveling.

LaKeisha Garcia

MS, CCLS

LaKeisha Garcia is a Certified Child Life Specialist at Boston Children's Hospital. She received her Bachelor's degree in Child Development from Tufts University and her Master's Degree in Child Life and Family-Centered Care from Wheelock College. She has worked at Boston Children's for the past 14 years in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, the Infant/Toddler Surgical Unit and most recently, for the past 8 years, on the Dialysis Unit. In her free time, LaKeisha enjoys spending time with her husband and three children. She also loves connecting with friends, serving in her church community, reading/listening to a good book, taking cruises and watching reality dance shows, HGTV, and the Food Network.