Improving Representative Payeeship for People With Psychiatric Disabilities and Their Families
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder
In brief
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.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00924976
- Run by
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- People needed
- 303
- Starts
- 2008-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2011-04-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-06-15
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- For disability recipients:
- Meets DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or depressive disorder with psychotic features;
- age 18-65;
- Has a family member (parent or sibling) as a representative payee.
- For payees:
- Has family member (child or sibling) with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or depressive disorder with psychotic features; and
- Is the family member's representative payee.
You may not qualify if…
- None.
Where it is running
- UNC-Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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