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Mobilizing Community Networks to Optimize Child Well-being

NCT02622399 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 98

Last updated 2017-08-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Caregiver social isolation adversely impacts child health and developmental outcomes; it also contributes to suboptimal engagement in health care services and enrichment resources, which also elevate risk for poor outcomes in childhood. The proposed pilot intervention aims to reduce social isolation and promote engagement in health promoting enrichment and activities, by embedding a community health worker assisted forum in a community-driven mobile communications (using a platform supported by the company txtwire).

The investigators propose a two-arm, pilot study enrolling 100 parents of children age 0-5 years old who reside in the Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan neighborhoods of Boston. Participants will be recruited from Boston Medical Center and community sites in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan. The investigators will use quality improvement methods to improve the utilization of the mobile communications shared through txtwire to build collective efficacy for children and social support and engagement that will optimize family resiliency and thereby promote child well-being, as well as, assess the acceptability of the intervention, and logistics of the field implementation to ultimately inform an appropriately powered RCT. Participants will receive compensation for participation at baseline and follow-up interviews.

The intent of this study is to support developement of mobile social communications to reduce social isolation.

Conditions

  • Social Isolation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Project NOW

This intervention aims to reduce social isolation and promote engagement in health promoting enrichment and activities, by embedding a community health worker-assisted forum in a community-driven mobile communications through a private, secure, and confidential platform supported by txtwire. The principal innovation is harnessing both the behavioral change utility of a mobile health application and the social support potential of an online social network the investigators can deliver more timely and dynamic reinforcement to caregivers and social support more in rhythm with the pace of community events and stressors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Boston Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Renee Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD · Associate Professor

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-08-01
Primary Completion
2017-06-01
Completion
2017-06-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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