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The Impact of Alternative Social Assistance Disbursement on Drug-related Harm (TASA)

13. november 2020 opdateret af: Lindsey Richardson, University of British Columbia

The Impact of Alternative Social Assistance Disbursement on Drug-Related Harm: a Randomized Control Trial

This study evaluates whether altering the timing and frequency of social assistance disbursement reduces drug related-harms that increase on the days surrounding monthly synchronized government social assistance cheque issue.

Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Detaljeret beskrivelse

Coordinated monthly income assistance payments, while seeking to alleviate poverty, can also have negative and unintended impacts, particularly among people who use illicit drugs (PWUD). Observational research has identified escalations in drug-related harm coinciding with monthly assistance payments, such as overdose, treatment interruption, hospital admissions and public disorder. This project varies the timing and frequency of income assistance disbursement, and evaluates whether varying income assistance disbursement reduces drug-related harm coinciding with coordinated income assistance.

Conducted among 273 PWUD, participants will be allocated for 6 income assistance cycles to a control or one of two intervention arms. Participants in the control arm will receive payments according to the existing monthly government schedule. Participants in the intervention arm will receive their income assistance: (1) monthly on a day different from government cheque issue; or (2) semi-monthly on days different from government cheque issue. The intervention will be evaluated using qualitative and quantitative methods for its impact on drug use and related harms.

Undersøgelsestype

Interventionel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

194

Fase

  • Ikke anvendelig

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

  • Canada
    • British Columbia
      • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6Z 2A9
        • British Columbia Centre on Substance Use

Deltagelseskriterier

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Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

19 år til 64 år (Voksen)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

  • be ≥19 years of age or older
  • reside in greater Vancouver, Canada
  • report regular use of illicit drugs other than cannabis
  • receive monthly provincial income assistance
  • are not currently administered (where cheque issue/money is externally managed)
  • be eligible and willing to be a client of the local credit union who will administer the intervention
  • report intensified drug use around government cheque issue days
  • provide written informed consent
  • be willing to comply with study procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

  • plan to relocate outside Vancouver
  • have plans to discontinue income assistance

Studieplan

Dette afsnit indeholder detaljer om studieplanen, herunder hvordan undersøgelsen er designet, og hvad undersøgelsen måler.

Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Primært formål: Andet
  • Tildeling: Randomiseret
  • Interventionel model: Parallel tildeling
  • Maskning: Enkelt

Våben og indgreb

Deltagergruppe / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Ingen indgriben: Treatment As Usual (TAU)
Receipt of social assistance on government cheque issue days for 6 income assistance cycles (approx 26 weeks).
Eksperimentel: Staggered Arm
Receipt of social assistance once monthly on a randomly assigned day that does not fall during the week of government cheque issue (Non-synchronized social assistance receipt), for 6 income assistance cycles (approx 26 weeks).
Andet: Non-synchronized social assistance receipt
Social assistance disbursement outside government cheque issue week
Andre navne:
  • Staggered
Eksperimentel: Staggered and Split Arm
Receipt of social assistance twice monthly on equally spaced randomly assigned days that do not fall during the week of government cheque issue (Non-synchronized social assistance receipt, cheque divided into two equal disbursements), for 6 income assistance cycles (approx 26 weeks).
Andet: Non-synchronized social assistance receipt
Social assistance disbursement outside government cheque issue week
Andre navne:
  • Staggered
Andet: cheque divided into two equal disbursements
Social assistance disbursement divided into two equal payments
Andre navne:
  • Dele

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Illicit drug use on government cheque issue days
Tidsramme: 26 weeks
Timeline Follow Back (TLFB) assessed increase of drug use defined as an increase in the frequency of drug use of at least 40% or an increase in the number of drugs used during the 3 days beginning with government cheque issue day, compared to non-cheque issue days.
26 weeks

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Illicit drug use on non-government cheque issue days
Tidsramme: 26 weeks
Timeline Follow Back (TLFB) assessed increase of drug use defined as an increase in the frequency of drug use of at least 40% or an increase in the number of drugs used during the 3 days beginning with individual cheque issue day (among intervention participants), compared to non-cheque issue days.
26 weeks
Hospital admissions on government cheque issue days
Tidsramme: 26 weeks
Emergency Department, Emergency Department Mental Health and substance use hospitalizations in the three days beginning with government cheque issue day compared to non-cheque issue days.
26 weeks
Overdose
Tidsramme: 26 weeks
Self-reported non-fatal overdose and hospital record verified fatal overdose on the three days beginning with government cheque issue day compared to non-cheque issue days.
26 weeks
Police service utilization
Tidsramme: 26 weeks
Self-reported and police record-verified interactions with police or use of police services on the three days beginning with government cheque issue day compared to non-cheque issue days.
26 weeks

Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere

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Sponsor

University of British Columbia

Samarbejdspartnere

BC Centre on Substance Use

Efterforskere

  • Ledende efterforsker: Lindsey Richardson, DPhil, University of British Columbia

Publikationer og nyttige links

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Generelle publikationer

Hjælpsomme links

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart (Faktiske)

27. oktober 2015

Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)

2. januar 2019

Studieafslutning (Faktiske)

30. september 2019

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

13. maj 2015

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

26. maj 2015

Først opslået (Skøn)

29. maj 2015

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)

17. november 2020

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

13. november 2020

Sidst verificeret

1. november 2020

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Nøgleord

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • H14-02401

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