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Families First Edmonton (FFE)

NCT00705328 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2400

Last updated 2016-04-21

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Summary

This study is designed to provide clear evidence for health and social policymakers about the influence of alternate service-delivery models and practices on enhancing and sustaining low-income family linkages to available services. A challenge faced by Canadian health and social service providers is to promote health for low-income families in a proactive and cost-effective manner. Families with low incomes experience an array of health and social barriers that compromise their resilience, lead to negative family outcomes, and act as barriers to available services. Family barriers are compounded by service delivery barriers and result in reduced opportunities for effective, primary-level services and in increased use of secondary-level services (e.g., emergency room visits, emergency intervention, police involvement), with the obvious increase in costs. Randomized-controlled trials are rare in community-based intervention research.

This Families First Edmonton randomized-controlled trial (RCT) will enable testing of innovative service-delivery models and provide an opportunity for evidence-based decision making for Canadian policy makers. Critical information will be provided about

1. optimizing cost effectiveness for public systems
2. the long-term effects on the health of low-income family members
3. mechanisms that intervene between the interventions and their effect on the health of low-income family members
4. building on previous research and on community-based initiatives
5. promoting knowledge transfer

Conditions

  • Low-Income Population

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Primary Health Care Model (PRMHLTH)

Primary health care service delivery

BEHAVIORAL

Recreation Coordination Model (REC)

Recreation coordination service delivery

BEHAVIORAL

Comprehensive Model (COMP)

a comprehensive service delivery model consisting of PRMHLTH plus REC.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alberta

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jane Drummond, PhD · University of Alberta

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-12-31
Primary Completion
2011-06-30
Completion
2011-06-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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