NCT06908590

Community Health Worker-Led Intervention to Increase Cardiac Rehabilitation Participation

Heart-to-Heart: A Community Health Worker-Led Intervention to Increase Cardiac Rehabilitation Participation Among Patients With Low Socioeconomic Status

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is being done to evaluate whether a program called Heart to Heart, that helps patients make a more informed decision about cardiac rehab (CR), is interesting, acceptable to participants, and whether participants would recommend it to others.

Detailed description

This is a prospective, single-institution pilot study to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a tailored Community Health Worker (CHW) led intervention to increase CR participation called H2H. Individuals hospitalized with Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) events (aged 21 and older) will be identified and screened for eligibility from two Johns Hopkins acute care sites into the pilot study. The duration of participation for each participant is up to 6 months from baseline assessments. All participants will complete a survey at baseline, 3-, and 6-months and will have medical record abstraction conducted performed by the Johns Hopkins (JH) research study team. For the intervention, participants enrolled in the H2H program will complete between 4 to 8 coaching sessions with the CHW (delivered by telephone and/or video chat) who will provide tailored education, improve or engage the participant's existing social support network, and assistance with health system navigation over a 3-month period.

Conditions

• CVD - Cardiovascular Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Education, Providing and Engaging Social Support and Assistance with Health System Navigation	1. Introduction to Program and Cardiac Rehab Needs Assessment Education about Cardiac Rehab 2. Education about CVD and how Cardiac Rehab can help in the participants recovery 3. Social Support Module 4. Health System Navigation Module

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-02-19
• Primary completion: 2026-11-01
• Completion: 2027-07-01
• First posted: 2025-04-03
• Last updated: 2026-02-27

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States