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Financial Hardship clinical trials

3 of 6 indexed Financial Hardship trials are currently recruiting.

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6 US clinical trials · 3 currently recruiting · #2,866 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Financial Hardship: 6 US clinical trials tracked, 3 recruiting.

Financial Hardship is the subject of 6 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 3 of them currently open to new participants. The most active sponsor is Meredith Doherty, PhD, LCSW, running 1 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition financial-hardship

OPEN 3 | RECR 50% | LATE 0 | EARLY 0 | RANK #2866 | SPON 1

Volume-matched condition peers

Nearest open-share peer: Achalasia (50% recruiting · 8 trials)

Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory 66.7%Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms50%Acupuncture50%Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia50%Financial Hardship (this)50%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Financial Hardship

Financial Hardship lists 3 open slots (50% of 6 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Financial Hardship on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Financial Hardship is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    3 of 6 indexed trials (50%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. One sponsor concentrates Financial Hardship research.

    Meredith Doherty, PhD, LCSW accounts for 1 of 6 trials (16.7%). 6 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Financial Hardship enrolment sits around 250 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 250 among the 6 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 2 of those (33.3%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Financial Hardship research is mostly interventional.

    5 interventional and 1 observational studies make up this index (83.3% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase Distribution

Phase data not available

Top Sponsors

Meredith Doherty, PhD, LCSW 1 trials
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 1 trials
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center 1 trials
University of California, Irvine 1 trials
Yale University 1 trials
University of California, San Francisco 1 trials

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Financial Hardship records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Financial coaching Behavioral
1 trials
Peer learning circles Behavioral
1 trials
Guaranteed Income Other
1 trials
Screening for financial and social needs Other
1 trials
Financial Education Behavioral
1 trials
Provision of local and national resources to address financial and social needs Behavioral
1 trials
CostCOM (Cost Communication, Financial navigation and counseling) Behavioral
1 trials
Contact information for social worker and financial counselor Other
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Financial Hardship trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

California 3 trials
New York 2 trials
Washington 1 trials
Pennsylvania 1 trials
Massachusetts 1 trials
Connecticut 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

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What to do with this Financial Hardship page

6 registered trials, 3 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Financial Hardship condition card totals 6 registered trials; most-linked intervention Financial coaching; top US site state California. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.