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Choosing Healthful Interventions

NCT00537706 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 442

Last updated 2017-07-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will identify what programs, along with traditional healthcare, low-income urban residents would choose to improve their health. The information is intended as a step toward designing public policies aimed at improving the health of low-income populations in the United States.

Residents of Washington, D.C., who are between 18 and 64 years of age and are in a specified income bracket may be eligible for this study.

Participants take part in audio-taped group discussions led by a trained facilitator. During a 3 hour session, participants engage in 4 cycles of choosing benefits. Participants select benefits as follows:

* For themselves individually.
* For their neighborhood.
* For an entire city.
* Once again individually.

Conditions

  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Low-Income Population
  • Health Status

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Nancy Ames, R.N. · National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-09-21
Completion
2011-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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