Cash Benefits and Reproductive/Perinatal Health

NCT ID: NCT05782660

Last Updated: 2024-07-12

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

3615 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-07-27

Study Completion Date

2025-08-31

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Maternal Care Patterns Pregnancy Related Miscarriage

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Caregivers Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Treatment Group

Participants in the treatment group received up to $400 per month.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Cash Benefit

Intervention Type OTHER

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.

Control Group

Participants in the control group did not receive monthly cash benefits.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

No Cash Benefit

Intervention Type OTHER

No monthly cash benefit.

Interventions

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Cash Benefit

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.

Intervention Type OTHER

No Cash Benefit

No monthly cash benefit.

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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Basic Income Debit Card

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 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
Minimum Eligible Age

15 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

44 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Brigham and Women's Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Sumit Agarwal

Instructor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Sumit D Agarwal, MD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Locations

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Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

View Document

Other Identifiers

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2022P000093-2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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