The UTHealth Medical-Legal Partnership: Improving Health by Addressing Health-Harming Legal Needs

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston911 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this study is to assess the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effectiveness of the UTHealth medical-legal partnerships (MLP) against usual care.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

911

Conditions

Social Determinants of Health

Interventions

Access to the Medical-Legal Partnership GroupOTHER

The Medical-Legal Partnership Group are lawyers in clinics who address health-harming legal needs.

Access to social worker and a community workerOTHER

Access to social worker and a community worker, but no systematic process for addressing health-harming legal needs.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * English- or Spanish- speaking * screen positive for health-harming legal needs (HHLNs) Exclusion Criteria: * Those unable or unwilling to consent to legal services

Locations (2)

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Houston, Texas, United States

UTHealth Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center

Houston, Texas, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Number of participants who had an emergency department visit

Time frame: 6 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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