The purpose of the study is learn more about ways to help people with non-medical issues that can affect participant health. The study team will examine if Community Health Workers, members of a community who provide basic health and medical care within communities, are more helpful to people with non-medical issues than simple reading materials on how participants can do it themselves.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
900
Participants will meet with a Community Health Worker (CHW) who will help facilitate and provide personalized navigation to existing resources for addressing health challenges such as food insecurity and access to care. CHW will meet with participants in person or virtually at least three times for approximately 15-60 minutes for over the six month period
Participants will receive one time educational materials including information of existing health resources. Participants will be able to review materials at participant discretion.
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, United States
RECRUITINGMayo Clinic Florida Comprehensive Cancer Center
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
RECRUITINGHealthy Little Havana
Miami, Florida, United States
Change in General well-being (GWB), measured by the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI)
In the PWI, each item is rated on a 0-to-10 scale (0 = No satisfaction at all; 10 = Very satisfied).
Time frame: Baseline, 6 months
Change in number of participants health insurance status as measured by CEAL Common Survey 4 (CS4)
Health insurance status will measured by the number of participants who answered yes to the health insurance status
Time frame: Baseline, 6 months
Change in number of participants having a usual source of care as measured by CEAL Common Survey 4 (CS4)
Having a usual source of care will measured by the number of participants who answered yes to having usual source of care
Time frame: Baseline, 6 months
Change in number of participants delayed medical care as measured by CEAL Common Survey 4 (CS4)
Delayed medical care will measured by the number of participants who answered yes to having delayed medical care due the cost.
Time frame: Baseline, 6 months
Food Insecurity as measured by U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service Questionnaire
Food security status is assigned as follows: Raw score 0-1-High or marginal food security (raw score 1 may be considered marginal food security, but a large proportion of households that would be measured as having marginal food security using the household or adult scale will have raw score zero on the six-item scale) Raw score 2-4-Low food security Raw score 5-6-Very low food security
Time frame: Baseline, 6 months
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Florida International University
Miami, Florida, United States
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGUniversity of Miami
Miami, Florida, United States
RECRUITINGHealth Choice Network
Miami, Florida, United States
RECRUITINGFlorida A&M University
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
NOT_YET_RECRUITING