Healthy Clinical Trial
Official title:
Revising Employee Benefits for the Sake of Health
Verified date | April 18, 2017 |
Source | National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Observational |
This study will explore ways in which employee benefits may be designed to improve people's
health, through examining the viewpoints and preferences of low-income people. A person's
health is affected not only by being able to receive health care but also by several factors
such as income and education. People with lower incomes have been found to be not as healthy
as those with higher incomes. While the governments of many countries in the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development are currently working on public policy to address this
topic, the likelihood is small that the United States, given its market-based economy, will
do the same. However, owing to the heavy reliance in the United States on employer-sponsored
health insurance, it would be useful to explore the possibility of insuring some of the
measures that people can take to improve their health, and to do that through employee
benefit packages. Solutions might include extended unemployment insurance, more education,
job training, exercise programs, help for housing, disability insurance, and extra retirement
benefits.
Adults who have a minimum of a sixth-grade reading level, have low incomes, are English
speaking may be eligible for this study. For recruitment, 400 people who live and work in the
Washington, D.C, area will be invited to participate, and about12 people will take part in
each session. Unless people in the study participate during working hours, they will each be
paid $75 at the conclusion of the session.
The study consists of one phase, in which participants will engage in a group exercise that
lasts for approximately 2-1/2 hours. During that time, participants will have the chance to
say what employee benefits they would choose, if the opportunity arose, to improve their
health. They will first make those choices by themselves and then make choices along with
other people in the group. While group members talk, the discussion will be recorded on a
tape recorder. Participants will be asked to give information about themselves and their
opinions but will not be asked for any information that identifies them personally, except
for data needed to pay participants with a paycheck. They will also get to use a computer and
will be shown how to use it, if necessary. If videotaping or photographs are done during the
exercise, the investigators of the study will ask for separate signed permission to do so.
Participants will be asked to respect the privacy of others in the group and to not discuss
the opinions of others after leaving the session.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 408 |
Est. completion date | April 18, 2017 |
Est. primary completion date | |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years to 65 Years |
Eligibility |
- INCLUSION CRITERIA: - Men and women who are between the ages of 18-65, and are employed with an income of up to three times the federal poverty level will be included in this study so that information can be learned about the employee benefit preferences of low-income employees. - Minority individuals, particularly African Americans and English speaking Hispanics will be included, and will be recruited to represent one third of the study sample because of the high prevalence of minorities among the low-income population in the US. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: - Non-English speakers will be excluded because they will be unable to participate in the discussion that participants engage in about the reasons for their benefit choices. - Individuals who cannot read at a 6th grade level, will be excluded because they will have difficulty reading information provided on the computer screen during the exercise. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike | Bethesda | Maryland |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) |
United States,
Danis M, Biddle AK, Dorr Goold S. Insurance benefit preferences of the low-income uninsured. J Gen Intern Med. 2002 Feb;17(2):125-33. — View Citation
Danis M, Biddle AK, Goold SD. Enrollees choose priorities for Medicare. Gerontologist. 2004 Feb;44(1):58-67. — View Citation
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