NCT05928026

Financial Support in an Underserved and Low-Income Population With Heart Failure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 153 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether financial support in the form of a one-time $500 stipend would improve medication adherence and quality of life in low-income, socially-needy patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in the post-discharge setting. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Will financial support improve heart failure quality of life? * Will financial support improve medication adherence? Participants will complete surveys on quality of life, social stress, and spending habits at their baseline visit. Participants will be randomly assigned to receive $500 at their baseline visit or $0 at their baseline visit. At their one month visit, quality of life and medication adherence will be assessed. These results will be compared between groups. The group that received $0 at their baseline visit will be provided $500 at their one-month visit and return for a two-month visit. At that visit, quality of life and medication adherence will be assessed. These results will be compared to their one-month results. Researchers will compare the 1-month quality of life scores and medication adherence scores between the immediate financial support vs delayed financial support. Researchers will also compare 1-month vs 2-month quality of life and adherence data for participants who were randomized to the delayed financial support group.

Conditions

• Heart Failure, Systolic
• Financial Stress
• Medication Adherence
• Quality of Life

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Financial Support	A debit card will be loaded with $500 and can be used like a typical debit card.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-09
• Primary completion: 2025-04-11
• Completion: 2025-05-01
• First posted: 2023-07-03
• Last updated: 2025-07-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States