The Impact of Family Financial Support on Parental Stress

NCT02723227 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: UCLASchickedanzFCS
• 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 family economic strain and parental stress.

Conditions

Stress

Keywords

Parenting Stress; Stress; Social Determinants; Socioeconomic status; Financial Coaching

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Family Economic Strain

  Parents will be asked to assess the degree to which their economic circumstances impact their family functioning using the Family Economic Strain Scale

  Up to one year (if possible)

• Parenting Stress

  Parents will be asked to quantify their parenting stress using the Parenting Stress Index

  Up to one year (if possible)

Study Arms (2)

Financial Coaching & Social Service Referral

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: Referral to Social Services

Social Services Referral

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Enrollment provides for access to referrals to social services.

Behavioral: Referral to Social Services

Interventions

Financial Coaching BEHAVIORAL

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.

Financial Coaching & Social Service Referral

Referral to Social Services BEHAVIORAL

Financial Coaching & Social Service Referral; Social Services Referral

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Participants will include caregivers and parents with one or more dependents, some form of income, and a tax identification number.

You may not qualify if:

• Inability to partake in the financial coaching or primary language other than English or Spanish.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of California, Los Angeles: lead

Study Sites (1)

LIFT-LA

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 25, 2016
• First Posted: March 30, 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)