NCT06607341

Community Engagement Alliance Against Disparities

Community Engagement ALliance Against Disparities - Washington District of Columbia (DC), Maryland, and Virginia (CEAL-DMV)

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 664 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The Community Engagement Alliance against Disparities - Washington District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia (CEAL DMV), is a multi-community and multi-university consortium. Through collaboration and shared leadership, the CEAL-DMV the consortium- comprising five institutions: George Washington University, Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore-has established a regional structure for bi-directional community involvement to engender trust and foster communication. Each site builds on thriving community partnerships, which have been instrumental in enhancing trust, community capacity, and readiness to reduce health disparities.

Detailed description

The investigators propose to evaluate the effect of a multi-level, community-digital health promotion intervention, compared to delayed control intervention, at improving health and social service utilization, and the prevention and management of hypertension, diabetes, overweight and obesity. The evidence-based intervention is based on substantial evidence supporting the role of Community Health Workers in health promotion and reduction of risks associated with chronic diseases. Studies have demonstrated community health worker (CHW) intervention success at improving chronic disease risks and management, including for hypertension and diabetes, through support in implementing clinical recommendations, overcoming barriers to lifestyle behavior change, achieving personal goals, and preventing complications. Additionally, there is substantial evidence supporting digital approaches for the prevention and management of cardiometabolic diseases. The proposed intervention and methods also build on almost three years of CEAL DMV collaboration with community partners. At the community level, core activities will focus on capacity building to ensure the trusted community-based organization partners are fully supported in the implementation of community-digital strategies to address hypertension, diabetes, overweight and obesity.

Conditions

• Diabetes
• Pre-diabetes
• Hypertension
• Overweight and Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Multi-level, community-digital health promotion intervention	Community level activities: 1. Capacity building for community-based organizations, and 2. Community health workers will facilitate linkage to community resources, including health/social service access referrals and client social support. Individual level activities: 1. Goal setting and self-monitoring, 2. Tailored feedback, 3. Personalized lifestyle coaching, health and social service referral support, and 4. Digital access and digital health literacy skills building Social network: 1. Social network-based activities, and 2. Digital health literacy skills building

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-12-20
• Primary completion: 2027-09-01
• Completion: 2027-09-30
• First posted: 2024-09-23
• Last updated: 2025-05-23

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States