The Impact of Family Financial Support on Health Related Quality of Life

Quality of Life Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Impact of Family Financial Support on Health Related Quality of Life

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02722005
• Other study ID #: UCLASchickedanzFCHRQOL
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 24, 2016
• Last updated: October 24, 2017
• Start date: March 2016
• Est. completion date: October 2017

Study information

• Verified date: October 2017
• Source: University of California, Los Angeles
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The investigators have partnered with financial coaching organizations to establish what the investigators have termed a "Medical-Financial Partnership (MFP)" that offers financial coaching to improve financial and mental health. The investigators will evaluate the MFP's impact on health related quality of life using the Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) 10 Global Short Form.

Description:

Financial coaching is a new tool in the field of community development, but it has already demonstrated significant financial impact in a number of studies, including one randomized trial conducted by the Urban Institute. Financial coaching improves participant financial literacy, budgeting, saving for financial emergencies, and debt level. The investigators' project will help clinicians and the field of community economic development understand health and well-being through a new economic lens and assess the health-related impacts of the emerging field of financial coaching. The investigators have partnered with financial coaching organizations to establish what they have termed a "Medical-Financial Partnership (MFP)" that offers financial coaching to improve financial and mental health. The investigators will evaluate the MFP's impact on health related quality of life using the Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS)10 Global Short Form.

Community-based participants will be recruited from South Los Angeles and randomized to receive either monthly financial coaching plus access to referral for social services (intervention) or access to referral for social services alone (control). Inclusion criteria include having dependents under age 18, having some form of income, and having a tax identification number (social security number or Individual Tax Identification Number). Participants will be surveyed quarterly regarding their health related quality of life using the PROMIS-10 Global Short Form.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 150
• Est. completion date: October 2017
• Est. primary completion date: October 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants must be caregivers/parents with one or more child dependents, some form of income, and a tax identification number.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to participate in financial coaching due to activity/cognitive limitations or primary language other than English or Spanish.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Quality of Life
• Socioeconomic Status

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Financial Coaching
One-to-one financial coaching focused on credit, debt, savings, and income supports.
• Access to referral to social services
Access to referral to a host of social services.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	LIFT-LA in Affiliation with UCLA	Los Angeles	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, Los Angeles

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Health-Related Quality of Life	We will assess differences between the groups and over time in terms of health-related quality of life	Up to one year (if possible)