Incentivizing health care behaviors in emerging adults: a systematic review.

Purpose: For emerging adults with chronic medical diseases, the transition from pediatric to adult health care is often a time of great upheaval, commonly associated with unhealthy self-management choices, loss to follow-up, and adverse outcomes. We conducted a systematic review to examine the use of incentive strategies to promote positive health-related behaviors in young adults with chronic medical diseases.

Methods: The Medline, CINAHL, Embase, PsycInfo, and Cochrane databases were searched through June 2014.