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Monthly Cash Gifts for Child Development (BFY Trial)

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Research Sponsored by University of California, Irvine

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Infant admitted to the newborn nursery and not requiring admittance to the intensive care unit

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up starting at child age 6 years

Awards & highlights

BFY Trial Summary

This trial will study whether monthly cash payments to low-income mothers has a causal effect on the cognitive, socio-emotional and brain development of infants and toddlers.

Who is the study for?

This trial is for mothers over 18 with newborns not needing intensive care, living in the state of recruitment, and speaking English or Spanish. They must plan to stay in the area for at least a year and have a household income below the federal poverty line.Check my eligibility

What is being tested?

The study tests if monthly cash gifts ($333 vs $20) to low-income families affect their children's brain development. It measures cognitive, language, self-regulation skills at ages 2-4 and brain activity using EEG at age 4.See study design

What are the potential side effects?

There are no direct medical side effects from participating in this trial as it involves financial interventions rather than medical treatments.

BFY Trial Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

You may be eligible if you check “Yes” for the criteria below

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My newborn is in the nursery and doesn't need intensive care.

BFY Trial Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ starting at child age 6 years

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~starting at child age 6 years

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and starting at child age 6 years for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Child Brain Function: Resting Brain Function

Child Executive Function & Behavioral Regulation: Executive Function

Child Language Development: Maternal Concern for Language Delay

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Secondary outcome measures

Any Maternal Concern for Developmental Delay: Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS)

Any Maternal Concern for Developmental Delay: Total "Predictive Concerns" in the Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS)

Chaos in the Home: Index of Chaos in the Home

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BFY Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: Monthly cash gift payments of $333Experimental Treatment1 Intervention

These subjects receive $333 each month for 76 months via debit card.

Group II: Monthly cash gift payments of $20Active Control1 Intervention

These subjects receive $20 each month for 76 months via debit card.

0 / 1Eligibility criteria met

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Who is running the clinical trial?

University of MinnesotaOTHER

1,378 Previous Clinical Trials

1,587,509 Total Patients Enrolled

University of MichiganOTHER

1,795 Previous Clinical Trials

6,372,936 Total Patients Enrolled

Duke UniversityOTHER

2,358 Previous Clinical Trials

3,419,069 Total Patients Enrolled

Media Library

Monthly cash gift payments of $333 Clinical Trial Eligibility Overview. Trial Name: NCT03593356 — N/A

Brain Development Research Study Groups: Monthly cash gift payments of $20, Monthly cash gift payments of $333

Brain Development Clinical Trial 2023: Monthly cash gift payments of $333 Highlights & Side Effects. Trial Name: NCT03593356 — N/A

Monthly cash gift payments of $333 2023 Treatment Timeline for Medical Study. Trial Name: NCT03593356 — N/A

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

What tangible results are anticipated to arise from this research?

"This 36-month clinical trial will be assessing the Socio-Emotional Processing of Maternal Concern for Behavioral and Social-Emotional Problems, as well as Child Task-Related Brain Function (as evidenced by Auditory Discrimination using mismatch negativity ERP) and Household Economic Hardship (measured through Poverty Rate thresholds by family size). Additionally, it will gauge the efficacy of Child-Focused Expenditures such as Cost of Paid Child Care. Statistical significance is to be calculated via stepdown resampling methods, with further details in the statistical analysis plan."

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Is there still availability for potential participants in this research endeavor?

"As indicated on clinicaltrials.gov, this trial is not currently seeking applicants. The initial post date was May 9th 2018 and the last update occurred October 31st 2022. However, there are 59 other studies that as of now are open to enrollees."

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Recent research and studies

PediatricsJournal

Baby’s First Years: Design of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Poverty Reduction in the United States

Noble, Kimberly G., Katherine Magnuson, Lisa A. Gennetian, Greg J. Duncan, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Nathan A. Fox, and Sarah Halpern-Meekin. 2021. “Baby’s First Years: Design of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Poverty Reduction in the United States”. Pediatrics. American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). doi:10.1542/peds.2020-049702.

Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesJournal

The Impact of a Poverty Reduction Intervention on Infant Brain Activity

Troller-Renfree, Sonya V., Molly A. Costanzo, Greg J. Duncan, Katherine Magnuson, Lisa A. Gennetian, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Nathan A. Fox, and Kimberly G. Noble. 2022. “The Impact of a Poverty Reduction Intervention on Infant Brain Activity”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.2115649119.

BMC Public HealthJournal

Unconditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Substance Use: Findings from a Randomized Control Trial of Low-income Mothers with Infants in the U.S.

Yoo, Paul Y., Greg J. Duncan, Katherine Magnuson, Nathan A. Fox, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, and Kimberly G. Noble. 2022. “Unconditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Substance Use: Findings from a Randomized Control Trial of Low-income Mothers with Infants in the U.S.”. BMC Public Health. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1186/s12889-022-12989-1.

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