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Homelessness Prevention: Psychiatric Care With Representative Payeeship

Sponsor
US Department of Veterans Affairs (U.S. Fed)
Overall Status
Completed
CT.gov ID
NCT00057161
Collaborator
(none)
240
Enrollment
1
Location
1
Arm

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Money management is a neglected issue in maintaining persons with mental illness in the community. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) assessed whether a community-based representative payee program, i.e., money management of Social Security and/or VA benefits, coordinated with VA psychiatric care (CO-RP) could be more effective than customary treatment for veterans who had no representative payee.

Condition or Disease Intervention/Treatment Phase
  • Behavioral: Coordinated Representative Payeeship with Case Management
 N/A

Detailed Description

Background:

Money management is a neglected issue in maintaining persons with mental illness in the community. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) assessed whether a community-based representative payee program, i.e., money management of Social Security and/or VA benefits, coordinated with VA psychiatric care (CO-RP) could be more effective than customary treatment for veterans who had no representative payee.

Objectives:

After 184 subjects were randomly assigned to CO-RP experimental group or customary care control group, hypotheses were that the CO-RP group would experience: 1) more frequent enrollment in the representative payee program, 2) improved residential status, 3) improved health-related quality of life, including less mental illness symptomatology, 4) less substance abuse, 5) improved money management.

Methods:

Six-month interviews were completed on 152 of 184 possible subjects (83%) and 12-month interviews were completed on 149 of 184 possible subjects (81%). The six and twelve-month outcomes were analyzed with analysis of covariance using data from the baseline pretest.

Status:

Completed.

Study Design

Study Type:
Interventional
Anticipated Enrollment :
240 participants
Allocation:
Randomized
Intervention Model:
Parallel Assignment
Masking:
None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose:
Treatment
Official Title:
Homelessness Prevention: Psychiatric Care With Representative Payeeship
Actual Study Completion Date :
Jun 1, 2004

Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/Treatment
Other: Arm 1

Behavioral: Coordinated Representative Payeeship with Case Management

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

    Eligibility Criteria

    Criteria

    Ages Eligible for Study:
    N/A and Older
    Sexes Eligible for Study:
    All
    Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
    Yes
    Inclusion Criteria:

    Severe mental illness; Inability to manage money; VA patient

    Exclusion Criteria:

    Contacts and Locations

    Locations

    Site City State Country Postal Code
    1 Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL Hines Illinois United States 60141-5000

    Sponsors and Collaborators

    • US Department of Veterans Affairs

    Investigators

    • Principal Investigator: Kendon J. Conrad, MA PhD MSPH, Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL

    Study Documents (Full-Text)

    None provided.

    More Information

    Publications

    None provided.
    Responsible Party:
    US Department of Veterans Affairs
    ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
    NCT00057161
    Other Study ID Numbers:
    • IIR 98-154
    First Posted:
    Mar 28, 2003
    Last Update Posted:
    Apr 7, 2015
    Last Verified:
    Feb 1, 2007
    Additional relevant MeSH terms:
    Mental Disorders

    Study Results

    No Results Posted as of Apr 7, 2015