NCT04171999

CommunityRx-Hunger

CommunityRx-Hunger: A Hospital-based Intervention for Primary Caregivers of Children Admitted to the Hospital

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 660 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

CommunityRx-Hunger (CRx-H) is a hospital-based intervention that addresses food insecurity and other health-related social needs such as transportation, housing, utilities, and safety. Study team members are recruiting caregivers at the time of their child's hospital admission at a large urban children's hospital. For Aim 1, the primary outcome is self-efficacy among food insecure caregivers compared to those who receive the usual standard of care. For Aim 2, the primary outcome is satisfaction with care compared between food secure and food insecure caregivers.

Detailed description

CommunityRx-Hunger (CRx-H) is a double-blinded randomized controlled trial aimed at increasing self-efficacy among caregivers with food insecurity in the household. CRx-H is recruiting primary caregivers of hospitalized children at a large urban children's hospital at the time of admission. Aim 1: Researchers are studying whether the intervention will increase self-efficacy among food insecure caregivers compared to those who receive the usual standard of care. Aim 2: Researchers will enroll and randomize caregivers with and without food insecurity to the intervention to compare satisfaction with care. Eligible, self-identified caregivers will complete a baseline survey during the child's hospital stay, followed by phone surveys at 7, 30, 90, 180 days, and 12 months. Caregivers randomized to the intervention will receive a tailored list of resources to address food insecurity and other health-related social needs, plus a brief educational component delivered by a trained member of our research team. Cases will receive a "booster" dose of the resource list prior to discharge. After discharge, cases will receive proactive text messages about those same community resources. All caregivers (regardless of research arm) will receive a series of text messages related to the study such as reminders to schedule the phone survey with a member of the research team.

Conditions

• Food Insecurity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Community Rx-Hunger (CRx-H)	The CRx-H Intervention provides "dosages" of health content that offer assistance for food insecurity and other health-related social needs. A caregiver randomized to the intervention will receive a hard-copy print-out of their tailored list of resources to address food insecurity. A member of our research team will deliver this list and provide a brief educational component which includes: a brief, structured script about the common problem of food insecurity in households with children and co-occuring HRSNs, review of the resource list which includes nearby, vetted resources to address these needs and coaching on how to activate resources on the list. Prior to discharge, the caregiver will receive a duplicate copy of the list of resources. After discharge, the caregiver will receive text messages at a frequency based on the Critical Time Intervention (CTI) Model, from baseline to 3 months post discharge, in order to receive ongoing support by a research team member.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-06
• Primary completion: 2023-09-30
• Completion: 2023-09-30
• First posted: 2019-11-21
• Last updated: 2024-12-27
• Results posted: 2024-12-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States