NCT03173794

CommunityRx for Hunger: A Hospital-Based Intervention

CommunityRx for Hunger: A Children's Hospital-Based Intervention to Support Caregivers in an African American Community

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this research program is to reduce health disparities by deploying an information-based intervention to increase caregiver utilization of community-based food supports and satisfaction with care among food insecure caregivers of hospitalized children. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate, versus usual care, the effects of the CommunityRx-H intervention on caregiver use of food resources (primary), caregiver patient satisfaction with care (primary), caregiver mental health-related quality of life (secondary), and caregiver household food security (secondary). The proposed research will yield an understanding of how to leverage a child's hospitalization to effectively intervene on the problem of food insecurity. Findings will inform the rapidly growing field of healthcare-based interventions to address health-related social needs.

Conditions

• Food Insecurity
• Caregivers
• Clinical Trial
• Hunger
• Health-Related Quality of Life
• Patient Satisfaction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	CommunityRx-H	CommunityRx-H has two components: (1) health-information technology (HIT) e-prescribing, and (2) a Community Resource Specialist (CRS). CommunityRx functions like an e-prescribing system: a HealtheRx "prescription" is automatically generated at the point of care. The HealtheRx provides referrals to food resources and federal nutrition assistance information tailored to the caregiver's address and proactive social support in the form of SMS-text message nudges from the CRS. Caregivers in the intervention arm are able to request information on resources not limited to food, including employment support, help paying rent or mortgage, etc. Nudges will promote caregiver self- and family management by increasing knowledge of and encouraging activation of community resources.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-01
• Primary completion: 2021-09-01
• Completion: 2021-09-01
• First posted: 2017-06-02
• Last updated: 2020-04-24