Can cash transfers protect mental health? Evidence from an observational cohort of children and adolescents living in adverse contexts in Brazil
Cristiane Silvestre Paula e outros, 2025 · European Psychiatry
Bolsa Família participation moderated the effect of adversity on youth mental health, reducing total emotional and behavioral problem score changes by 0.124 SD per 1 SD of adversity exposure.
Estimativa · Latent change in CBCL total problem T-score per 1 SD increase in adversity, standardized beta
-0,124 [-0,191; -0,0574]
standardized beta coefficient (SD change in CBCL T-score per SD adversity) · calculado a partir do erro-padrão
p: <0.001
- Desenho
- Pareamento. Propensity score matching with latent change score modeling in a two-wave longitudinal cohort
- População
- Children and adolescents aged 6–15 years at baseline in low-income neighborhoods of Itaboraí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, assessed in 2014 and 2015
- Amostra
- 660 · children and adolescents (330 matched pairs of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries)
Onde está o número
Results > Moderation effect of BFP on the association between adversity exposure and changes in CBCL T-scores; Table 6, row 'Bolsa Família × adversity scores interaction', column 'Latent change score total CBCL-T scores'
Specifically, the interaction was associated with reductions in total problems (β = −0.124, SE = 0.034, p < 0.001)
Contexto
What changed: Families received monthly Bolsa Família cash transfers for at least 12 months. Comparison: Matched non-recipient peers with similar propensity scores across baseline socioeconomic covariates, evaluated along an adversity exposure gradient. Limits: Observational sample drawn from a single municipality, reliance on maternal reporting, and unobserved confounding cannot be ruled out.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaTransferências, subsídios e financiamento
- TipoTransferências de renda
- MecanismoIncidência direta de transferências e impostos diretos
- ResultadoSaúde infantil
- EixoSaúde
MAGI só cita evidência deste instrumento
Lugares do estudo
- Itaboraí · Município · BR
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23