NCT03770221

Coordinating Access to Care for People Experiencing Homelessness (CATCH-FI)

Coordinating Access to Care for People Experiencing Homelessness: The Role and Impact of Financial Incentives

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 176 (actual)
• Sponsor: Unity Health Toronto · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Coordinating Access to Care for the Homeless (CATCH) initiative is a multidisciplinary brief intervention for homeless adults with mental health needs discharged from hospital in Toronto, Canada. The study aims to evaluate the effect of financial incentives in facilitating treatment engagement of homeless people with mental illness, as well as in improving health, health service use and housing outcomes, compared to usual CATCH care, over 6 months, a critical time of transition from hospital to community care.

Conditions

• Mental Health Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	CATCH	Brief, intensive case management service.
OTHER	Financial Incentive	Financial incentive for maintaining contact with CATCH service providers.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-19
• Primary completion: 2021-05-31
• Completion: 2021-05-31
• First posted: 2018-12-10
• Last updated: 2022-05-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada