Coordinating Access to Care for People Experiencing Homelessness (CATCH-FI)

NCT03770221 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 176

Last updated 2022-05-18

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Summary

Coordinating Access to Care for the Homeless (CATCH) initiative is a multidisciplinary brief intervention for homeless adults with mental health needs discharged from hospital in Toronto, Canada. The study aims to evaluate the effect of financial incentives in facilitating treatment engagement of homeless people with mental illness, as well as in improving health, health service use and housing outcomes, compared to usual CATCH care, over 6 months, a critical time of transition from hospital to community care.

Conditions

  • Mental Health Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

CATCH

Brief, intensive case management service.

OTHER

Financial Incentive

Financial incentive for maintaining contact with CATCH service providers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

    collaborator OTHER_GOV
  • Unity Health Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Vicky Stergiopoulos, MD, MHSc · Unity Health Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-11-19
Primary Completion
2021-05-31
Completion
2021-05-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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