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The Impact of Alternative Social Assistance Disbursement on Drug-related Harm

NCT02457949 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 194

Last updated 2020-11-17

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Summary

This study evaluates whether altering the timing and frequency of social assistance disbursement reduces drug related-harms that increase on the days surrounding monthly synchronized government social assistance cheque issue.

Conditions

  • Drug Use

Interventions

OTHER

Non-synchronized social assistance receipt

Social assistance disbursement outside government cheque issue week

OTHER

cheque divided into two equal disbursements

Social assistance disbursement divided into two equal payments

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • BC Centre on Substance Use

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of British Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lindsey Richardson, DPhil · University of British Columbia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-27
Primary Completion
2019-01-02
Completion
2019-09-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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