NCT04028609

Community Health Worker Intervention to Improve Post-Hospital Outcomes

Community Health Worker and Certified Peer Specialist Intervention to Improve Post-Hospital Outcomes

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 55 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study tests an intervention designed to avoid 30-day readmissions following a medical hospitalization by patients who have co-occurring mental illness. The Intervention is delivered by community health workers in the inpatient setting and 30 days following hospital discharge to the community.

Detailed description

This study will test the efficacy of a brief intervention delivered to adults with co-occurring medical and mental health conditions by community health workers designed to avoid 30-day readmissions following medical hospitalization. Adult inpatients of a university hospital will be randomly assigned to the intervention plus services as usual versus services as usual alone, and assessed at baseline and 30 days following discharge. Chi square will be used to assess the primary outcome of admission within 30 days of discharge and changes in patient activation, mental health symptoms, medication adherence, and perceived competence for health maintenance. Also examined will be study condition differences in post-discharge inpatient service utilization and cost.

Conditions

• Chronic Disease (Physical)
• Mental Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy at Home	In addition to receiving medical services as usual, subjects receive services from Community Healthy Workers during the transition from the hospital to their community residence.
OTHER	Services as Usual	Routine medical services

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-12
• Primary completion: 2020-03-09
• Completion: 2020-03-09
• First posted: 2019-07-22
• Last updated: 2023-04-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States