N/A
Completed N=100
Pilot Guaranteed Income Study, Philadelphia, April 2023
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05838027 ↗Enrolled (actual)
100
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Mar 2025
Primary outcomePrimary: Change in Food Security Category — 27; 19; 16; 23 Participants
Summary
The goal of this pilot clinical trial is to learn about the effects of a short-term unconditional cash transfer (UCT) in people living with poverty and chronic disease (either prediabetes/diabetes or hypertension). The main questions it aims to answer are:
* How feasible and acceptable is the intervention?
* How are key health behaviors and outcomes affected by the intervention?
* What are reasonable effect sizes to expect in a larger trial?
Participants will complete surveys and health measurements at two timepoints 3 months apart. Half of the participants will be randomly assigned to the treatment where they will receive a UCT of $1000 over 4 months. Researchers will compare the treatment group to the control group to see if there are improvements in health risk factors directly related to insufficient resources (food and utility security, stress-levels, mental bandwidth), financial outcomes, and health behaviors.
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Change in Food Security Category |
27; 19; 16; 23; 6; 15 | — |
| PRIMARY Change in Utility Security Category |
19; 15; 17; 14; 11; 11 | — |
| PRIMARY Change in Financial Well-being Scale |
44; 44; 47; 46 | — |
| PRIMARY Change in Perceived Stress Scale |
7.2; 7.1; 7.4; 7.0 | — |
| PRIMARY Change in State Anxiety Scale |
38; 35; 40; 41 | — |
| PRIMARY Change in Mental Bandwidth |
9.0; 8.8; 11.1; 12.0 | — |
| PRIMARY Change in Health Care Expenditures on Medications |
12; 23; 10; 18 | — |
| PRIMARY Change in Adherence to Medication Refills Scale |
6.9; 6.6; 6.5; 6.9 | — |
| SECONDARY Change in Number of Emergency Department Visits |
— | — |
| SECONDARY Change in Number of Health Care Visits (Non-emergency Department) |
— | — |
| SECONDARY Change in Cigarette Dependence Scale |
14; 15; 14; 14 | — |
| SECONDARY Change in Alcohol Use Scale |
1.5; 1.6; 1.5; 1.5 | — |
| SECONDARY Change in All Health Care Expenditures |
19; 35; 12; 35 | — |
| SECONDARY Change in Time Preference (Patience) |
6.8; 8; 6.5; 6.7 | — |
| SECONDARY Change in Time Preference (Behavioral Task) |
40; 27; 33; 20; 7; 15 | — |
| SECONDARY Change in Psychological Distress Scale |
13; 12; 13; 14 | — |
| SECONDARY Change in Number of Healthy Days |
12; 15; 14; 15 | — |
| SECONDARY Change in Adherence to Taking Medications Scale |
11; 10; 11; 11 | — |
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Age 18 years or greater
- Pennsylvania Medicaid enrollee
- At least one recent clinic visit at Penn Family Care (earliest six months before start of recruitment)
- Diagnosis of pre-diabetes/diabetes and/or hypertension
- Actively prescribed a medication for diabetes or hypertension
- Regular resident of the Philadelphia metro area without plans to leave in the next 6 months
Exclusion Criteria
- Does not meet all of the inclusion criteria
- Unable to provide consent
- Non-English speaker
- Cognitive impairment, per principal investigators' discretion
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05838027). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication. Informational only — not medical advice.