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A Pragmatic Trial Integrating Homelessness Diversion Services Into an Emergency Department Discharge System

NCT05823220 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1000

Last updated 2025-01-28

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a homelessness diversion program integrated into a hospital emergency department (ED) will lower ED use, to identify characteristics of individuals most likely to benefit from homelessness diversion and to discover opportunities to tailor Homelessness Diversion (HD) services to better meet the needs of diverse communities.

Conditions

  • Homelessness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Homeless diversion (HD)

Participants will receive services from specialty-trained community health workers and will be invited to complete monthly assessments via text and phone to assess their health and housing for 6 months and to share feedback on their experience with the intervention after completion by a text message to a link for the survey

BEHAVIORAL

Treatment-as-usual (TAU)

Participants will receive a list of community resources they can contact to receive services and will be invited to complete monthly assessments via text and phone to assess their health and housing for 6 months and to share feedback on their experience with the intervention after completion by a text message to a link for the survey

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jack Tsai, PhD · The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-09-14
Primary Completion
2025-09-01
Completion
2025-09-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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