The Impact of Family Financial Support on Health Related Quality of Life

NCT02722005 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: UCLASchickedanzFCHRQOL
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 150
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The investigators have partnered with financial coaching organizations to establish what the investigators 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 health related quality of life using the Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) 10 Global Short Form.

Conditions

Quality of Life; Socioeconomic Status

Keywords

Health related quality of life; Financial Coaching; Medical Financial Partnership; Social Determinants of Health; Socioeconomic status

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Health-Related Quality of Life

  We will assess differences between the groups and over time in terms of health-related quality of life

  Up to one year (if possible)

Study Arms (2)

Financial Coaching & Access to Services

EXPERIMENTAL

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.

Behavioral: Financial Coaching; Behavioral: Access to referral to social services

Access to Services

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants will have access to a host of referrals to social services (this is the intervention for this group)

Behavioral: Access to referral to social services

Interventions

Financial Coaching BEHAVIORAL

One-to-one financial coaching focused on credit, debt, savings, and income supports.

Financial Coaching & Access to Services

Access to referral to social services BEHAVIORAL

Access to referral to a host of social services.

Access to Services; Financial Coaching & Access to Services

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Participants must be caregivers/parents with one or more child dependents, some form of income, and a tax identification number.

You may not qualify if:

• Inability to participate in financial coaching due to activity/cognitive limitations or primary language other than English or Spanish.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of California, Los Angeles: lead

Study Sites (1)

LIFT-LA in Affiliation with UCLA

Los Angeles, California, 90007, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Adam Schickedanz, MD

  University of California, Los Angeles

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics and Clinical Scholar

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 24, 2016
• First Posted: March 29, 2016
• Study Start: March 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2017
• Study Completion: October 1, 2017
• Last Updated: October 26, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)