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Philly Family Trust Study: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Unconditional Cash Transfer to Improve Health Behaviors Among Adults With Chronic Diseases
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Cash Transfer for Cardiovascular Diseases. Completed, enrolled 100 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The goal of this pilot clinical trial is to learn about the effects of a short-term unconditional cash transfer (UCT) in people living with poverty and chronic disease (either prediabetes/diabetes or hypertension). The main questions it aims to answer are: * How feasible and acceptable is the intervention? * How are key health behaviors and outcomes affected by the intervention? * What are reasonable effect sizes to expect in a larger trial? Participants will complete surveys and health measurements at two timepoints 3 months apart. Half of the participants will be randomly assigned to the treatment where they will receive a UCT of $1000 over 4 months. Researchers will compare the treatment group to the control group to see if there are improvements in health risk factors directly related to insufficient resources (food and utility security, stress-levels, mental bandwidth), financial outcomes, and health behaviors.
Study Details
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Interventions
Participants will receive $125 every 2 weeks for 8 payments via ClinCard, for a total of $1000.