# The Impact of Alternative Social Assistance Disbursement on Drug-related Harm

> **NCT02457949** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **University of British Columbia** · enrollment: 194 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Drug Use

## Interventions

- **OTHER:** Non-synchronized social assistance receipt
- **OTHER:** cheque divided into two equal disbursements

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02457949
- **Lead sponsor:** University of British Columbia
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2015-10-27
- **Primary completion:** 2019-01-02
- **Final completion:** 2019-09-30
- **Target enrollment:** 194 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Interim analyses produced signal of intervention efficacy for primary outcomes and weaker signal of increased exposure to violence. Therefore, DSMC recommended stopping recruitment in May 2018. Enrolled participants completed intervention by Aug 2018
- **Last updated:** 2020-11-17

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02457949

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02457949, "The Impact of Alternative Social Assistance Disbursement on Drug-related Harm". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02457949. Licensed CC0.

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