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Intervention Evaluation WEH (Women Who Have Experienced Homelessness)

NCT06570525 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2024-12-24

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Summary

Homelessness and associated traumas disproportionately impact women relative to men. Women who have experienced homelessness (WEH) universally face traumatic stress, often before becoming homeless and while experiencing homelessness.

For WEH who are incarcerated, additional trauma may occur while in correctional settings. Black WEH are disproportionately impacted by trauma, homelessness, and incarceration, as is related to structural and individual racism and discrimination (racial trauma).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

NurseNET

Nurse-Delivered Narrative Exposure Therapy (NurseNET). Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is a brief, low-cost, trauma-focused treatment modality that is effective in treating mobile populations with complex PTSD. In NurseNET, NET is facilitated by a clinically experienced nurse, while peers/program support specialists offer scaffolded support, fostering trust, engagement, and retention. NurseNET begins with administration of a "diagnostic battery" and psychoeducation. Then, in subsequent NurseNET sessions, using gradual imaginative exposure, the nurse guides the participant to verbally express and re-frame their personal trauma narratives to shift unhelpful beliefs/symptoms around trauma. NurseNET utilizes a racism-conscious approach to create relational spaces in which narratives of WEH are positioned to challenge dominant social narratives. Each NurseNET session offers a brief soulfulness-based stress reduction activity to prompt emotional/affective grounding.

OTHER

PAL

Peer Active Listening (PAL). In the PAL active comparator/control, peers/program support specialists meet individually with participants in "active listening sessions", along the same visit sequence as NurseNET. During PAL sessions, peers/program support specialists allow participants to set each conversational agenda while practicing the tenets of active listening, including attending to body language, paraphrasing the participant's verbal expressions, reflecting feelings, and using tactful repetition. PAL sessions are not intended to center on topics of trauma, but rather designed to offer a supportive relationship (attentional control).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rush University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kirsten A Dickins, PhD, FNP-C · Rush University Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-05-31
Primary Completion
2029-06-30
Completion
2029-12-31

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