NCT05211869

T1DTechCHW: Enhancing the Community Health Worker Model to Promote Diabetes Technology Use in Young Adults From Underrepresented Minority Groups

T1DTechCHW: Enhancing the Community Health Worker (CHW) Model to Promote Diabetes Technology Use in Young Adults From Underrepresented Minority Groups (YA-URMs) With Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 119 (actual)
• Sponsor: Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to test the early effects and implementation of an enhanced community health worker (CHW) model (T1D-CATCH) that encourages and supports diabetes technology use in young adults from underrepresented minority groups (YA-URMs) with type 1 diabetes (T1D). The investigators will conduct a 9-month randomized controlled trial in which YA-URMs will be randomized to T1D-CATCH or usual care. The investigators will recruit from adult and pediatric endocrinology and primary care practices in a large safety-net health system in the Bronx, New York. Our specific aims are to 1) evaluate T1D-CATCH effects on technology initiation and continued use over 6 months and 2) evaluate T1D-CATCH implementation using Proctor's Taxonomy of Implementation Outcomes: feasibility, adoption, fidelity, and cost.

Detailed description

The study will involve a 9-month randomized control trial of usual care versus T1D-CATCH, an intervention that enhances core community health worker (CHW) service roles to support increased use of T1D technology in young adults (underrepresented minorities) (YA-URM's). Participants will be recruited from primary and specialty care practices at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, which is a large safety-net hospital system in one of the poorest counties in the U.S. Two young adult-aged CHWs from the Montefiore CHW program will be trained extensively per our Supporting Emerging Adults with Diabetes (SEAD) program manuals. For YA-URMs, CHWs will conduct hands-on diabetes technology education, goal-setting, peer support, and social service linkage. CHWs will also help shift insurance approval tasks away from busy providers and better align patient-provider priorities through close communication between the YA-URM and provider. Group sessions will be optional and will follow the YA-centric education curriculum developed in Dr. Agarwal's Supporting Emerging Adults with Diabetes (SEAD) program.

Conditions

• Diabetes
• Type 1 Diabetes
• Young Adult
• Diabetes Mellitus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	T1D-CATCH	As defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a CHW is "a frontline public health worker who is a trusted member of a community or who has a thorough understanding of the community being served, and leverages this unique position to link health systems, social services, and communities". CHWs engender trust with patients by having direct community and lived experience, offering specific support and empathy that may be difficult for other diabetes care professionals to provide. In addition, CHWs have firsthand understanding of cultural barriers to traditional western healthcare and can promote patient-centered culturally-relevant care. They enhance team-based care by helping providers with extra outreach, social needs management, time-consuming tasks, and aligning patient-provider priorities. CHWs in this project will provide social needs assessment and management, introduction to diabetes technologies, and support for onboarding to technology.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-07
• Primary completion: 2025-09-08
• Completion: 2025-12-08
• First posted: 2022-01-27
• Last updated: 2026-01-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States