NCT05369507

Eliminating HCV in Rural South Carolina Utilizing NP Led Mobile Clinics and Virtual Care Coordination

Eliminating HCV in Rural South Carolina With Smart Phone Virtual Care Coordination Deployed in NP Led Mobile Clinics

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 146 (actual)
• Sponsor: Prisma Health-Upstate · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Up to 150 individuals with current hepatitis C (HCV) will be recruited from mobile health clinics in rural South Carolina - sites will be selected based on HCV prevalence rates and lack of current HCV screening/treatment resources. NPs will provide HCV care through mobile health units. Participants will be randomized (1:1) to either mobile health clinic treatment as usual or virtual care coordination. Virtual care coordination designed to move people along HCV care cascade will be conducted by the Emocha smartphone platform - an adaptable platform designed by emocha to link patients to care. Using quantitative methods, associations between psychosocial factors such as homelessness, mental illness, provider mistrust, poor social support, high levels of shame and stigma with HCV outcomes including SVR will be examined. Investigators hypothesize that SVR rate among the HCV-infected individuals treated (and with follow-up SVR determination) will be 90% with the Clopper-Pearson 95% CI having a width of 13%.

Conditions

• Hepatitis C
• Substance Use Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Virtual Care Coordination	Participants randomly assigned to the virtual care coordination group will use a mobile app to assist in HCV treatment care coordination.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-09-01
• Primary completion: 2023-09-16
• Completion: 2023-09-16
• First posted: 2022-05-11
• Last updated: 2024-04-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States