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Table 2 Outcomes

From: Does a monetary incentive improve the response to a postal questionnaire in a randomised controlled trial? The MINT incentive study

 

Incentive

n = 1070 (%)

No incentive

n = 1074 (%)

Risk ratio

Questionnaire returned

810 (75.7)

738 (68.7)

1.10 (1.05, 1.16)

Questionnaire returned without chasing

560 (52.3)

493 (45.9)

1.14 (1.05, 1.24)

Non-responder (after all follow-up efforts including outcome data collection by telephone)

96 (9.0)

142 (13.2)

0.68 (0.53, 0.87)