Cash for compliance: can money keep mentally ill patients out of the hospital?
NCT ID NCT07130500
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether offering financial rewards can help people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or substance use disorder stick to their long-acting injectable medication after being forced into the hospital. About 1,000 participants will be randomly assigned to receive money for staying on their meds or to a control group. The goal is to see if this approach reduces the chance of being hospitalized again.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 1,000 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Mar 2026
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2030
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 65 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and/or bipolar disorder * Recent (within 12 months) involuntary hospitalization or high risk of future hospitalization * Eligible for medication (antipsychotic or SUD-related) with an LAI formulation * Allegheny County, PA resident * Receiving or assigned to treatment at clinics participating in this study Exclusion Criteria: * Lack of injectable formulation for prescribed medication * Aged under 18 or 65 or older
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
5 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Pittsburgh Mercy
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15203, United States
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UPMC Bellefield Towers
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States
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UPMC Franklin Building
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15203, United States
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UPMC Oxford Building
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States
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UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States
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