The UTHealth Medical-Legal Partnership: Improving Health by Addressing Health-Harming Legal Needs
Completed
- Conditions
- Social Determinants of Health
- Interventions
- Other: Access to the Medical-Legal Partnership GroupOther: Access to social worker and a community worker
- Registration Number
- NCT03364543
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to assess the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effectiveness of the UTHealth medical-legal partnerships (MLP) against usual care.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 911
Inclusion Criteria
- English- or Spanish- speaking
- screen positive for health-harming legal needs (HHLNs)
Exclusion Criteria
- Those unable or unwilling to consent to legal services
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Medical-Legal Partnership Group Access to the Medical-Legal Partnership Group The Medical-Legal Partnership Group are lawyers in clinics who address health-harming legal needs. This group will also have access to access to a social worker and a community worker. Medical-Legal Partnership Group Access to social worker and a community worker The Medical-Legal Partnership Group are lawyers in clinics who address health-harming legal needs. This group will also have access to access to a social worker and a community worker. Usual Care Access to social worker and a community worker Access to a social worker and a community worker, but no systematic process for addressing health-harming legal needs.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Number of participants who had an emergency department visit 6 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (2)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
🇺🇸Houston, Texas, United States
UTHealth Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center
🇺🇸Houston, Texas, United States