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Addressing Durable Health Disparities Through Critical Time Legal Interventions in Medically Underserved Latinx and Migrant Communities

NCT06532487 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1140

Last updated 2025-02-12

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Summary

This clinical trial will examine the effects of legal services on primary care outcomes for medically underserved communities.

The aims of the study are:

1. To test the effectiveness and cost-benefits of a critical-time intervention Medical-Legal Partnership (CTI-MLP) on patient outcomes.
2. To determine the most efficient mechanisms for CTI-MLP delivery.
3. To develop innovative community engagement strategies for addressing health-harming legal needs within community health centers.

Eligible patients will be asked to complete a questionnaire 4 times, first when they join the study and then at 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months. In the survey, they will be asked to provide information about themselves, their health care, aspects of their daily life, and hardships they face. They will also allow researchers to access their electronic health record information housed in the community-based organization and attorney notes.

Patient information will be completely confidential and de-identified, meaning, the research team will not know the identity of the person who answered the questions.

Participating community health centers will be randomized (assigned by chance) to provide basic legal information and referral to legal aid; or have an attorney on-site to provide legal aid to those who screen for legal needs.

Conditions

  • Health Harming Legal Needs

Interventions

OTHER

Critical Time Medical-Legal Partnership Intervention

Utilizing a hybrid type II effectiveness-implementation trial with a cluster randomized design in six predominantly Latino-serving federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in three major urban settings, we are examining whether integrating legal services into existing health clinics that serve Latinx and recent migrant communities can improve engagement in care and improve the health of Latinx/Hispanic and recent migrants.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Central Florida

    collaborator OTHER

  • Boston University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Puerto Rico

    collaborator OTHER

  • Stony Brook University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-11-28
Primary Completion
2027-04-30
Completion
2027-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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