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2025-12-25 @ 2:48 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-26 @ 1:29 AM
Study NCT ID:
NCT01047033
Status:
COMPLETED
Last Update Posted:
2010-01-12
First Post:
2010-01-08
Is NOT Gene Therapy:
False
Has Adverse Events:
False
Brief Title:
Evaluation of Impacts of Health Education for Children of Microcredit Clients in Peru
Sponsor:
Organization:
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Health education for microcredit clients in Peru: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2011 Jan 24;11(1):51. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-51.'}]}, 'descriptionModule': {'briefSummary': 'This purpose of this study is to determine whether a health education intervention for clients of a microcredit organization in Peru will improve health outcomes among clients and their children.', 'detailedDescription': 'An increasingly popular scheme for poverty alleviation is microcredit, the awarding of small loans to individuals too poor or too remote to take advantage of traditional lending services. Studies have repeatedly shown that income is one of the factors strongly associated with physical and mental wellbeing. Yet economic growth alone doesn\'t necessarily lead to healthier families, especially if basic health knowledge or health services are absent in the community. Microcredit institutions have recently tried to address this issue by supplementing banking-only microcredit programs with programs that include "tie-ins" or "add-ons" such as health education or health services. A rigorous evaluation of such "banking-plus" endeavors has not yet been conducted, leaving a gap in the knowledge base regarding whether these organizations are meeting their stated goals in catering to both economic and social needs. This study attempts to address this research question using a randomized controlled trial of a health education intervention to clients of a microcredit organization in Peru.'}, 'eligibilityModule': {'sex': 'ALL', 'stdAges': ['ADULT', 'OLDER_ADULT'], 'minimumAge': '18 Years', 'eligibilityCriteria': 'Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Subjects must be current clients of the collaborating microcredit organization\n* Clients must be at least 18 years of age\n* Children of clients must be less than 5 years of age\n* Study participants must be able to speak and understand Spanish\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Only one client from any particular household may participate'}, 'identificationModule': {'nctId': 'NCT01047033', 'briefTitle': 'Evaluation of Impacts of Health Education for Children of Microcredit Clients in Peru', 'organization': {'class': 'OTHER', 'fullName': 'Innovations for Poverty Action'}, 'orgStudyIdInfo': {'id': 'IPA-2007-PE'}}, 'armsInterventionsModule': {'armGroups': [{'type': 'ACTIVE_COMPARATOR', 'label': 'Microcredit only', 'interventionNames': ['Other: Microcredit']}, {'type': 'EXPERIMENTAL', 'label': 'Microcredit plus health education', 'description': 'Thirty minutes of a health education module administered to clients by loan officer at their monthly group meetings over the course of 8 months.', 'interventionNames': ['Behavioral: Health education', 'Other: Microcredit']}], 'interventions': [{'name': 'Health education', 'type': 'BEHAVIORAL', 'description': '30 minutes of a health education module delivered to clients by loan officers during monthly repayment meetings, over the course of 8 months.', 'armGroupLabels': ['Microcredit plus health education']}, {'name': 'Microcredit', 'type': 'OTHER', 'description': 'Small loans administered to clients through the collaborating microcredit organization, to be repaid monthly over the course of six months in the context of monthly loan group meetings.', 'armGroupLabels': ['Microcredit only', 'Microcredit plus health education']}]}, 'contactsLocationsModule': {'locations': [{'city': 'Pucallpa', 'country': 'Peru', 'facility': 'Innovations for Poverty Action', 'geoPoint': {'lat': -8.37915, 'lon': -74.55387}}], 'overallOfficials': [{'name': 'Lia Fernald, PhD MBA', 'role': 'PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR', 'affiliation': 'University of California, Berkeley'}, {'name': 'Dean Karlan, PhD MBA MPP', 'role': 'PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR', 'affiliation': 'Yale University'}]}, 'sponsorCollaboratorsModule': {'leadSponsor': {'name': 'Innovations for Poverty Action', 'class': 'OTHER'}, 'collaborators': [{'name': "American Medical Women's Association", 'class': 'OTHER'}, {'name': 'University of California, Berkeley', 'class': 'OTHER'}, {'name': 'Center for Latin American Studies at UCB', 'class': 'UNKNOWN'}, {'name': 'University of California, San Francisco', 'class': 'OTHER'}, {'name': 'Interdisciplinary MPH Program at the UCB School of Public Health', 'class': 'UNKNOWN'}, {'name': 'Rainer Fund', 'class': 'UNKNOWN'}], 'responsibleParty': {'oldNameTitle': 'Rita Hamad', 'oldOrganization': 'University of California San Francisco'}}}}