Financial Health Educational Program for Increasing Financial Literacy Among Underserved Communities in Western New York

Malignant Solid Neoplasm Clinical Trial

Official title:

Money Matters 101: A Pilot Community-Based Financial Health Educational Program

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05997589
• Other study ID #: I 3445122
• Secondary ID: NCI-2023-02314I
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 17, 2023
• Est. completion date: August 28, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: August 2023
• Source: Roswell Park Cancer Institute
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This clinical trial evaluates a financial health educational program to educate and increase knowledge for financial health and well-being, and to ensure access to financial knowledge and resources among underserved community members in Western New York. Financial well-being consists of a person's ability to meet financial obligations, feelings of financial security, ability to make choices related to financial matters. Information gathered from this study may help researchers learn how a financial health educational program may increase financial literacy for financial health and well-being among underserved community members in Western New York.

Description:

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Collaborate with community organizations and leaders to leverage community-based assets to disseminate education about financial literacy.

II. Reach medically underserved, high risk community members. III. Enhance financial literacy knowledge among medically underserved, high risk community members.

OUTLINE:

Participants attend financial health educational program over 60 minutes. Patients also receive educational materials on study.

After completion of study intervention, patients are followed up to 30 days.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: August 28, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: August 28, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being over 18 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

• Adults unable to consent

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hematopoietic and Lymphoid System Neoplasm
• Malignant Solid Neoplasm
• Neoplasms

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Behavioral Intervention
Receive educational materials

Other:
• Educational Intervention
Attend financial health educational program
• Questionnaire Administration
Ancillary studies

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Roswell Park Cancer Institute	Buffalo	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Success of program dissemination (Feasibility)	Will be measured by number and demographics of attendees at each programs offered organizations to deliver financial health literacy education. Descriptive statistics will be used to summarize demographic and baseline characteristics.	Up to 1 year
Primary	Satisfaction of financial health educational program (Acceptability)	Descriptive statistics will be used to summarize demographic and baseline characteristics.	Up to 1 year
Primary	Effectiveness of community based education	Demographics of attendees at each program will determine the effectiveness of this community-based educational strategy to reach diverse, high-risk, and medically underserved community members.	Up to 1 year
Secondary	Changes in financial literacy knowledge	Will use surveys to collect questionnaire data before and after education sessions. Scores from the pre- and post-knowledge tests will be computed as the average percent correct of the responses to each question and then will be compared across all participants. Comparisons of pre-post test scores will be made using paired-samples t-tests.	Baseline to 1 year