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Table 1 Award and scoring rules for ranking both teams and individuals

From: Effects of group communication norms on daily steps in a team-based financial incentive mobile phone intervention in Shanghai, China

Subjects

Award category

Scoring rule

Award rule

Intervention group only

Weekly team award

Based on the mean score across the individuals within the team

Top 50% of teams receive 200 RMB (US$28.6) weekly

Final team award

Mean of individual scores within the team

Top 50% of teams receive 3,000 RMB (US$429) per team after 13 weeks

Individual award

The sum of daily points from recording their attendance (10 points) and meeting the daily goal (90 points)

The top 50 individual participants receive 200 RMB (US$28.6)

Both intervention group and control group

Daily attendance award

Daily points from recording their attendance (10 points)

0.1 RMB per day (US$0.014)