Evaluation of a Cash Transfer Program in Low-Income Families in Guinea-Bissau

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• Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
• Main ID: NCT03455257
• Date of registration: 21/02/2018
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Ministry of Finance, Guinea-Bissau
• Public title: Evaluation of a Cash Transfer Program in Low-Income Families in Guinea-Bissau
• Scientific title: Evaluation of a Cash Transfer Program in Low-Income Families in Guinea-Bissau
• Date of first enrolment: April 25, 2017
• Target sample size: 34148
• Recruitment status: Unknown status
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03455257
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Other. Masking: None (Open Label).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Guinea-Bissau

Contacts

• Name: Alfa U Jalo, MS
• Affiliation: Ministry of Finance

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Families (defined as groups of individuals who routinely eat together) in 3 regions of
Guinea-Bissau.

- Identified by developing scale based upon household characteristics and assets per
capita. As well as access to services such as water, electricity and sanitation.

- Families having the lowest score identified as lowest income were recruited.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Families with high scores on asset scale.

- Families uninterested in participating.



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Anemia

Per Capita Food Consumption Expenditure

Childhood Cognition

Childhood Growth

Diabetes

School Registration and Attendence

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: Cash Transfer

Primary Outcome(s)

Change in per capita food expeditures [Time Frame: Baseline, year 1, year 2 and year 3]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Change in height [Time Frame: Baseline, year 1, year 2 and year 3]

Change in Literacy [Time Frame: Year 1, year 2, year 3]

Change in Grip Strength [Time Frame: Baseline, year 1, year 2 and year 3]

Change in weight [Time Frame: Baseline, year 1, year 2 and year 3]

Change in mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) [Time Frame: Baseline, year 1, year 2 and year 3]

Change in hemoglobin [Time Frame: Baseline, year 1, year 2 and year 3]

Food intake [Time Frame: Year 1, year 2 and year 3]

Change in school attendence [Time Frame: Each semester of school in year 1, 2 and 3 of study]

Cognition function [Time Frame: When children are 18th months]

Change in blood pressure [Time Frame: Baseline, year 1, year 2 and year 3]

Change in waist circumference [Time Frame: Baseline, year 1, year 2 and year 3]

Change in HbA1c [Time Frame: Baseline, year 1, year 2 and year 3]

Change in head circumference [Time Frame: After birth, year 1, year 2, year 3]

Changes in family demographics [Time Frame: Baseline, year 1, year 2 and year 3]

Secondary ID(s)

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Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors

Secondary Sponsor(s)

International Partnership for Human Development (IPHD)

National Institute of Statistics (INE)

World Bank