Transforming Households with Refraction and Innovative Financial Technology (THRIFT): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of vision interventions and online banking among the elderly in Kurigram.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Presbyopia, difficulty in seeing close-ups, affects a billion people globally. Mobile financial services (MFS) have been mandated since January 2021 for Bangladesh government social safety net payments, including old age allowance (OAA) and widow allowance (WA). We report the protocol for the Transforming Households with Refraction and Innovative Financial Technology randomised trial assessing the impact on the use of online banking of providing presbyopic safety net beneficiaries with reading glasses, and brief smartphone and mobile banking app training.

Methods and analyses

Eligible participants (n=484) are OAA (men aged 65-70 years; women aged 62-70) or WA recipients (women aged 48-60) with presbyopia as their only vision problem, passing a smartphone-based t

SUBMITTER: Shitol SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11667281 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature