Community Health Workers and mHealth for Sickle Cell Disease Care

Summary

This study will compare the effectiveness of two self-management support interventions-Community Health Workers (CHW) and mobile health (mHealth)-versus enhanced usual care to improve health-related quality of life and acute care use for transitioning youth with sickle cell disease (SCD), and identify and quantify mediators and moderators of intervention treatment effects.

Conditions

• Sickle Cell Disease

Interventions

OTHER

Peer Community Health Worker

Participants will be communicating with their CHWs on a weekly basis, which is consistent with other successful community health worker protocols with published efficacy. Community Health Workers will be peers with sickle cell disease, who have successfully transitioned and are under 30 years of age.

OTHER

Mobile Health

A mobile health application created as a resource for young adults transitioning.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• St. Christopher's Hospital for Children

  collaborator OTHER

• Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

  collaborator OTHER

• Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center

  collaborator INDIV

• Connecticut Children's Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• David Rubin, MD · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

• Sophia Jan, MD · Cohen's Children Medical Center/Northwell Health

• Kim Smith-Whitley, MD · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

17 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-01-15

Primary Completion

2024-08-31

Completion

2024-08-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations