Cash Benefits and Reproductive/Perinatal Health
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interventional
3,615
1 country
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Brief Summary
During the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Chelsea, Massachusetts held a lottery to allocate cash benefits to its residents for ten months. Using data from the Chelsea Eats program, the investigators propose to study the impact of the cash benefit on reproductive and perinatal health.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Jul 2020
Longer than P75 for not_applicable
1 active site
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
Trial Relationships
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
July 27, 2020
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
December 31, 2021
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
March 11, 2023
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
March 23, 2023
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
August 31, 2025
CompletedJuly 12, 2024
July 1, 2024
1.4 years
March 11, 2023
July 11, 2024
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Pregnancy
Pregnancies will be identified using the electronic health record, documented with a positive urine or blood pregnancy test, ultrasound, and/or diagnosis codes over the 10 months of the trial; because pregnancy without delivery is the primary outcome for our main analysis, the investigators will then determine whether each pregnancy did or did not result in a live childbirth delivered vaginally or via Cesarean section, which can occur after the 10 months of the trial
20 months
Secondary Outcomes (6)
Miscarriage
20 months
Abortion
20 months
Prenatal vitamin prescriptions prior to pregnancy
10 months
Contraception
10 months
Number and timing of prenatal visits before delivery
20 months
- +1 more secondary outcomes
Study Arms (2)
Treatment Group
EXPERIMENTALParticipants in the treatment group received up to $400 per month.
Control Group
ACTIVE COMPARATORParticipants in the control group did not receive monthly cash benefits.
Interventions
Spending from the cards was not restricted to food but could be spent on anything and anywhere Visa was accepted. The debit cards were credited with the first payment on November 18th, 2020 and the second payment on December 18th, 2020. The program continued with monthly credits through August 2021.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Resident of Chelsea, Massachusetts
- Household income at or below 30% of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Area Median Income
- Childbearing age
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Sumit D Agarwal, MD, MPH
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- TRIPLE
- Who Masked
- CARE PROVIDER, INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Instructor
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
March 11, 2023
First Posted
March 23, 2023
Study Start
July 27, 2020
Primary Completion
December 31, 2021
Study Completion
August 31, 2025
Last Updated
July 12, 2024
Record last verified: 2024-07
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will not share