Clinical trial NCT02723357: The Impact of Family Financial Support on Parental Mental Health
Official title: The Impact of Family Financial Support on Parental Mental Health
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Financial Coaching
Mental Disorders
Social Determinants
Medical-Financial Partnership
Toxic Stress
Keywords: Financial Coaching
Mental Health
Social Determinants
Medical-Financial Partnership
Toxic Stress
Lead sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-03-30
Enrollment: 150
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief 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 mental health using the Kessler-6 emotional distress scale.

Detailed 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 mental health using the Kessler-6 emotional distress scale as the outcome variable.

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 mental health using the Kessler-6 emotional distress scale.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Caregivers/Parents with one or more child dependents, income of any sort, and a tax identification number.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Inability to partake in financial coaching due to physical limitations or primary language other than Spanish or English.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Mental Health
timeFrame: Up to one year (if possible)
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Los Angeles
country: United States
facility: LIFT-LA in Affiliation with UCLA
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles
name: Adam Schickedanz, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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