Recovery Legal Care Clinical Trial

Summary

Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs (HVIPs) affiliated with trauma centers in the US often focus on individual behavior modification for reduction in re-victimization. There is a lack of reproducible evidence that has demonstrated effectiveness, given the exclusion of addressing inequities in the Social and Structural Determinants of Health (SSDOH), often the root causes of violent injury and preventable homicide. The study investigators created a Medical Legal Partnership (MLP) to partner with an existing HVIP. This novel program offers beside legal assistance to address the SSDOH. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the HVIP-MLP program in improving violence-related outcomes, legal needs, health-related quality of life, PTSD symptoms, and perceived stress.

Conditions

• Firearm Injury
• Economic Problems
• Injury Traumatic
• Racism, Systemic

Interventions

OTHER

Recovery Legal Care

These patients will receive support from our HVIP standard of care (Violence Recovery Program) plus our Medical Legal Partnership (Recovery Legal Care) for additional legal support to address health-harming legal needs and public benefits.

OTHER

HVIP Standard of Care

These patients will receive HVIP standard of care (Violence Recovery Program Support)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

  collaborator NIH

• U.S. Department of Justice

  collaborator FED

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

  collaborator NIH

• University of Chicago

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• TANYA L ZAKRISON, MD, MPH · University of Chicago

• ELIZABETH L TUNG, MD, MS · University of Chicago

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

14 Years

Max Age

64 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-02-10

Primary Completion

2026-08-31

Completion

2027-08-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations