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Connecting Families

NCT05091957 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2026-01-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Living in poverty has a profound negative impact on parenting stress and children's health. When poverty occurs early in childhood and continues for a long time, the impact on child health can be lifelong. Child poverty is common, affecting about 20% of Canadian children. Many low income families may not be receiving all the social benefits for which they are eligible. There are calls for primary care providers to ask patients if they have difficulty making ends meet at the end of the month and to intervene if poverty is identified, but it is not known if intervening can improve parent's and children's health. This study will test whether a Community Support Worker who helps families with young children navigate the social service system by reviewing social needs (like food, housing or energy insecurity) and income supports can lead to increased family income, reduced parenting stress and an improvement in their child's health. The Community Support Worker will help families complete income tax, apply for benefits and community supports for which they are eligible. The investigators will also study the effect of this intervention on health care utilization. Our study will be conducted in Toronto and Kingston in primary care practices participating in the TARGet Kids! primary care research network. Results from this study will help health care providers and policy makers understand whether Community Support Workers are an effective way to integrate the health and social service systems to improve parent and child health.

Conditions

  • Poverty
  • Primary Care
  • Intervention

Interventions

OTHER

Community Support Worker

structured review of participant income supports with a trained CSW, to identify financial needs and benefits for which the family is eligible, including assessment of income and food security, affordability of medications, housing and energy insecurity, and dental care. The visits will be conducted in person, by telephone or by videoconferencing, according to participant preference and to ensure adherence to COVID-19 pandemic-related criteria.

OTHER

Usual Care

Participants in both groups will receive a written summary of available resources

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Queen's University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Day
Max Age
3 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-05-17
Primary Completion
2026-04-30
Completion
2026-04-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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