The Study is Intended to Increase Take-up of EITC
Conditions
Brief summary
The EITC Access Study an intervention study provided to families in 7 counties in Michigan.The intervention involves appending a concentrated benefits advocacy intervention onto an existing home visiting program. There are 5 treatment counties and 2 control counties that will survey families in the home visiting program to compare the relative benefits of the added benefits advocacy intervention on the outcomes of parent mental health, intimate partner violence, economic hardship, earned income tax credit take-up, and child maltreatment.
Interventions
OTHEREducation
Parents will be provided with information about Earned Income Tax Credits and budgeting
OTHERHome visiting
Parents as Teachers home visiting program
Sponsors
University of Michigan
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* 18 years of age, has a child in their home
Exclusion criteria
* Does not speak or read English, Spanish, Burmese, or Arabic
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Earned Income Tax Credit receipt | Within 2 years of receiving the intervention | Self-report |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Child maltreatment behaviors | Within 2 years of receiving the intervention | Self-report on the Brief Child Abuse Potential Inventory. 34 Yes/No questions. E.g. A child needs very strict rules. |
| Intimate partner violence | Within 2 years of receiving the intervention | Self-report from Women's Experiences of Battering Scale. 10 items relating to how they would describe their life with their partner. Scale ranges from Strongly agree to strongly disagree. E.g. 1. He makes me feel unsafe even in my own home. |
| Depression | Within 2 years of receiving the intervention | Self-report from the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). 20 questions on a scale from rarely to most or all of the time relating to things experienced within the past week. E.g. I was bothered by things that usually don't bother me. |
| Anxiety | Within 2 years of receiving the intervention | Self-report from the General Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7). 7 questions relating to feelings experienced over the past 2 weeks, with response options ranging from not at all to nearly every day. E.g. Not being able to stop or control worrying. |
| Economic hardship | Within 2 years of receiving the intervention | Self-report on 11 yes or no items indicating whether individual hardships were experienced in the past year. E.g. Was there anyone in your household who needed to see a doctor or go to the hospital but could not go because of the cost? |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed