NCT03736590

Clinic-Based Financial Coaching and Family Health and Development

The Effect of a Clinic-Based Financial Coaching on Health and Development

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 400 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will examine the impact of clinic-based financial coaching on parent health-related quality of life and child development measures, as well as family social needs for families with young children receiving pediatric care at a primary care practice in the Los Angeles County safety net.

Detailed description

With an expert group of researchers, financial coaches, and implementation scientists, we will study the impact of clinic-based financial coaching on parent health-related quality of life, child developmental risk, and social needs.We will conduct a clinical randomized controlled trial of financial coaching for low-income families. Parents of infants in a large pediatric primary care safety-net clinic will receive either 1) financial coaching from trained coaches plus social needs screening and resource navigation at all well child visits (intervention) or 2) social needs screening and navigation alone (active control) and will be followed for five years. Aims include: 1a) Examine parent outcomes of overall health-related quality of life (primary parent outcome); 1b) Examine child outcomes of developmental risk scores (primary child outcome) and well-child visit adherence; 1c) Examine family social needs outcomes, including incidence of any food insecurity, housing instability, transportation or utilities interruptions (primary family outcome any one or more) and resource use; and financial metrics.

Conditions

• Economic Problems
• Development, Child
• Quality of Life

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Financial coaching and services	The intervention will consist of clinic-based financial coaching that focuses on improving financial stability through longitudinal visits with financial services professionals to address financial goals.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-07
• Primary completion: 2029-12-31
• Completion: 2030-07-31
• First posted: 2018-11-09
• Last updated: 2025-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States