NCT04426305

Community Health Workers Against COVID19

Community Health Workers Against COVID19 Tackling Psychosocial Suffering Due to Physical Distancing

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 140 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Ghent · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Randomized controlled trial among patients from family practices at risk of psychosocial suffering due to social distancing measures. Patients from the intervention group receive support from community health workers. contacted at least 8 times by community health workers. Evolution of psychosocial wellbeing is evaluated by questionnaires at time 0 and after 6 weeks of intervention. Psychosocial outcomes are compared between control and intervention groups. Process evaluation will be done through in-depth interviews.

Detailed description

Patients vulnerable for psychosocial suffering due to social distancing measures are recruited by family practitioners in the City of Ghent. The recruited patients are randomly selected into a control and intervention group. Based on the validated Promis instruments, all participants are interviewed face to face on their mental and social health at time 0 and after 6 weeks of intervention. Patients from the intervention group are contacted by Community health workers after the first interview. Community health workers offer emotional support to the patients through at least 8 contacts over 6 weeks. The control group receive care as usual and are offered support by community health workers after the second interview. In depth interviews (qualitative study) will be conducted among community health workers and patients after finalizing the post-intervention questionnaires. Research questions: What are the psychosocial consequences of social distancing for at-risk groups? Can community health workers reduce the psychosocial impact of physical distancing measures isolation? Relevance: Understanding community-based psychosocial support for vulnerable people during and after health crises. Keywords: Community health workers, psychosocial, health crises

Conditions

• Covid 19
• Social Isolation
• Mental Health Impairment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	community health worker support	usual care by professional primary care providers + emotional support by trained community health worker
OTHER	care as usual	care as usual is provided by professional primary care provider

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-05-21
• Primary completion: 2020-06-20
• Completion: 2020-10-30
• First posted: 2020-06-11
• Last updated: 2021-06-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium