The Impact of Family Financial Support on Child Health
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Financial coaching is a new tool in the field of community development, but it has already demonstrated significant financial impact in a number of studies, including one randomized trial conducted by the Urban Institute. Financial coaching improves participant financial literacy, budgeting, saving for financial emergencies, and debt level. The investigators' project will help clinicians and the field of community economic development understand health and well-being through a new economic lens and assess the health-related impacts of the emerging field of financial coaching. The investigators have partnered with financial coaching organizations to establish what they have termed a "Medical-Financial Partnership (MFP)" that offers financial coaching to improve financial and mental health. The investigators will evaluate the MFP's impact on parent-rated child overall health on a 5 point likert scale (Excellent to Poor).
Community-based participants will be recruited from South Los Angeles and randomized to receive either monthly financial coaching plus access to referral for social services (intervention) or access to referral for social services alone (control). Inclusion criteria include having dependents under age 18, having some form of income, and having a tax identification number (social security number or Individual Tax Identification Number). Participants will be surveyed quarterly regarding their parent-rated child overall health on a 5 point likert scale (Excellent to Poor).
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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California
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Los Angeles, California, United States, 90007
- LIFT-LA
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Child
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Participants will include caregivers and parents with one or more dependent children, some form of income, and a tax identification number.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Inability to take part in financial coaching or primary language other than English or Spanish.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Financial Coaching & Social Services Referral
Enrollment in one-to-one financial coaching intervention to support savings, income, and credit while reducing debt using available tools in the community development field.
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Enrollment in one-to-one financial coaching intervention to support savings, income, and credit while reducing debt using available tools in the community development field.
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Active Comparator: Access to Referrals to Social Services
Enrollment provides access to referrals to social services to meet basic needs.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Parent-Rated Child Overall Health
Time Frame: Up to One Year
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Parent-rated overall child health (Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, Poor) assessed using a single-item questionnaire.
The single item used to assess this outcome is the first item in the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System child health related quality of life questionnaire.
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Up to One Year
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Collaborators and Investigators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Adam Schickedanz, MD, University of California, Los Angeles
Study record dates
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Study Start
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Other Study ID Numbers
- UCLASchickedanzFCCH
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
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IPD Plan Description
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