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Using Community Health Workers to Support Rural Care Partners of Seriously Ill Older Veterans

NCT06963970 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 480

Last updated 2026-04-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators aim to support care partner's well-being and satisfaction with VA care and decrease their work burden by offering extra support from a trained Community Health Worker who will help connect the care partner to helpful resources in their communities and in the VA. The investigators also hope to help Veterans well-being and satisfaction with VA care by supporting their care partner more sufficiently allowing the care partner to focus on caregiving tasks.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Remote Community Health Worker support

trained/certified community health worker supporting care partner remotely

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Durham VA Medical Center

    collaborator FED

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Nathan A Boucher, DrPH · Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-06-01
Primary Completion
2027-12-31
Completion
2028-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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