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Improving Representative Payeeship for People With Psychiatric Disabilities and Their Families

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Collaborator:
U.S. Department of Education
Information provided by:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00924976
First received: June 17, 2009
Last updated: May 10, 2011
Last verified: May 2011
History of Changes
  Purpose

Representative payees, mostly family members, manage Social Security Administration funds of more than one million people with psychiatric disabilities. Although studies show payeeship can be used coercively, foster dependency, reduce work incentives, lead to family conflict and even violence, there has been little systematic research on how to lower these significant barriers to community integration.

The investigators' long term goal is to promote recovery among adults with psychiatric disabilities who have payees by reducing downsides associated with what has been called "the nation's largest guardianship system." The investigators' objective in the current application is to evaluate a pilot-tested, stakeholder-informed intervention that is grounded in principles of psychiatric rehabilitation and encourages consumers with psychiatric disabilities and their family members to collaborate within the representative payee arrangement.


Condition Intervention
Schizophrenia
Bipolar Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
 Behavioral: Steps for Achieving Financial Empowerment (SAFE)

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Official Title: Improving Representative Payeeship for People With Psychiatric Disabilities and Their Families

Resource links provided by NLM:

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • employment [ Time Frame: six months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • empowerment [ Time Frame: six months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • family support [ Time Frame: six months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Enrollment: 303
Study Start Date: May 2008
Study Completion Date: April 2011
Primary Completion Date: April 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
Subjects will be offered the Steps for Achieving Financial Empowerment (SAFE) which helps facilitate a cooperative consumer-payee relationship, increase accurate knowledge about representative payeeship, promote collaborative money management and effective budgeting, and prepare mutually developed plans for carrying out the payeeship in the future.
 Behavioral: Steps for Achieving Financial Empowerment (SAFE)
The SAFE is a brief, 5-component intervention that aims to facilitate a cooperative consumer-payee relationship, increase accurate knowledge about representative payeeship, promote collaborative money management and effective budgeting, and prepare mutually developed plans for carrying out the payeeship in the future.
No Intervention: 2
Representative payeeship as usual

Detailed Description:

To do this, we will test the Steps for Achieving Financial Empowerment (SAFE) intervention by randomly assigning N=200 consumer-family payee dyads into one of two groups: (a) the SAFE intervention (n=100); or (b) a "usual care" control (n=100). The SAFE is a brief, 5 component educational intervention that aims to facilitate a cooperative consumer-payee relationship, increase accurate knowledge about representative payeeship, promote collaborative money management and effective budgeting, and prepare mutually developed plans for carrying out the payeeship in the future.

We will interview people with psychiatric disabilities and their family payees at baseline and six-months. This study aims to examine the effects of the SAFE intervention on community participation, employment, and family support of adults with psychiatric disabilities who have family representative payees. Our central hypothesis, based on strong preliminary data, is that the SAFE will benefit consumers by enhancing autonomy, boosting motivation to work, and reducing family conflict.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years to 65 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • For disability recipients:

    1. Meets DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or depressive disorder with psychotic features;
    2. age 18-65;
    3. Has a family member (parent or sibling) as a representative payee.

  • For payees:

    1. Has family member (child or sibling) with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or depressive disorder with psychotic features; and
    2. Is the family member's representative payee.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • None.
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00924976

Locations
United States, North Carolina
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
U.S. Department of Education
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Eric B Elbogen, Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill
  More Information

Publications:

Responsible Party: Eric Elbogen, UNC-Chapel Hill
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00924976     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: H133G070058
Study First Received: June 17, 2009
Last Updated: May 10, 2011
Health Authority: United States: Institutional Review Board

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Bipolar Disorder
Depressive Disorder
Depression
Schizophrenia
Depressive Disorder, Major
 Affective Disorders, Psychotic
Mood Disorders
Mental Disorders
Behavioral Symptoms
Schizophrenia and Disorders with Psychotic Features

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