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Effect of Cash Benefits on Health Care Utilization

NCT05622903 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3615

Last updated 2024-07-12

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Summary

Using data from the Chelsea Eats program, we propose to study a randomized controlled trial in which the City of Chelsea, Massachusetts held a lottery to allocate cash benefits to its residents for ten months during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. We will analyze the impact of the cash benefit on health care utilization and health.

Conditions

  • Health Care Utilization

Interventions

OTHER

Cash Benefit

Spending from the cards was not restricted to food but could be spent on anything and anywhere Visa was accepted. The debit cards were credited with the first payment on November 18th, 2020 and the second payment on December 18th, 2020. The program continued with monthly credits through August 2021.

OTHER

No Cash Benefit

No monthly cash benefit.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Cambridge Health Alliance

    collaborator OTHER

  • Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sumit Agarwal, MD, MPH · Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-07-27
Primary Completion
2021-12-31
Completion
2024-02-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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