Effect of Cash Benefits on Health Care Utilization
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 3,615
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Emergency department use
研究概览
简要总结
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Triple (Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Resident of Chelsea, Massachusetts
- •Household income at or below 30% of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Area Median Income
排除标准
- •See inclusion criteria
研究组 & 干预措施
Treatment Group
Participants in the treatment group received up to $400 per month.
干预措施: Cash Benefit (Other)
Control Group
Participants in the control group did not receive monthly cash benefits.
干预措施: No Cash Benefit (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Emergency department use
时间窗: 10 months
Count of visits to the emergency department (ED) using the electronic health record
次要结局
- Blood pressure(10 months)
- Behavioral health-related ED visit(10 months)
- ED visit resulting in admission to the hospital(10 months)
- Potentially avoidable ED visit(10 months)
- Outpatient service use(10 months)
- Cholesterol(10 months)
- COVID vaccination(10 months)
- Hemoglobin A1c(10 months)
- Weight(10 months)
- Substance use disorder-related ED visit(10 months)
研究者
Sumit Agarwal
Instructor
Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)
