NCT04461080

Screening for Poverty And Related Social Determinants to Improve Knowledge of and Links to Resources (SPARK)

Screening for Poverty And Related Social Determinants and Intervening to Improve Knowledge of and Links to Resources (SPARK): a Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 110 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Unity Health Toronto · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The SPARK RCT will test the impact of engagement with a Community Health Worker who is embedded in interprofessional primary care teams on change in estimated annual income at 6 months for people living in poverty.

Detailed description

Population: Patients seen by interprofessional primary care teams who are living on estimated annual incomes that are below the Canadian Low-Income Cut-Off (LICO) Intervention: A Community Health Worker who implements an intervention that addresses a number of social needs, including improving income security, access to prescription medications, access to housing, reducing social isolation, paying for utilities and access to transportation Control: Information on community resources on social needs Outcome: Change in estimated annual income between baseline and at 6 months

Conditions

• Poverty

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Community Health Worker	Trained Community Health Worker

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-08-01
• Primary completion: 2025-05-01
• Completion: 2025-12-01
• First posted: 2020-07-08
• Last updated: 2024-06-18