NCT03834441

Optimized Health-Related Social Needs Screening and Community Linkages

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 236 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to to understand the most effective method for health-related social need (HRSN) screening in the challenging environment of an emergency department by randomizing patients to oral or written HRSN screening in the ED.

Detailed description

Bilingual research assistants (RA) will screen patients for eligibility based on the predetermined criteria and approach eligible patients with a brief description of the study and opportunity for participation. Interested participants will complete a verbal consent process to reduce the barriers to participation, a brief demographic questionnaire, and an assessment of health literacy (Newest Vital Sign) followed by the Partners Healthcare HRSN screener randomized to an oral v. iPad screening strategy. After completion of the screening tool, participants will complete a secondary questionnaire asking about satisfaction with the process, the presence of additional HRSN not recorded by the Partners HealthCare screener, and their perspectives on screening. At the conclusion, all participants will be provided with standardized, bilingual list of community resources to address each of the screening domains.

Conditions

• Emergencies

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Oral HRSN screening	Verbal screening delivered by an RA
OTHER	Written HRSN screening	Patient completes written screen on iPad.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-05-07
• Primary completion: 2019-09-01
• Completion: 2020-02-20
• First posted: 2019-02-08
• Last updated: 2023-02-09
• Results posted: 2023-02-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States