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Health Equity and Rural Education (HERE!) Clinical Trial

Not Applicable
Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Social Determinants of Health
Community Health Workers
Behavioral Symptoms
Educational Problems
Interventions
Behavioral: School-Based Community Health Worker (SB-CHW) intervention
Behavioral: Enhanced Usual Care (EUC) Methods
Registration Number
NCT06460116
Lead Sponsor
University of Kansas Medical Center
Brief Summary

The goal of this community-engaged research is two-fold. The first goal is to gather stakeholder feedback to inform a school-based community health worker intervention with youth with poor school attendance and an enhanced usual care condition. The second goal is to evaluate the feasibility of implementing the school-based community health worker intervention and enhanced usual care approach within rural schools.

The main question it aims to answer is whether it is feasibile to recruit children with poor school attendance and their families to the intervention, to complete the trauma-informed intervention, and to complete the associated study measures of meeting social determinants of health/mental health needs, school-based health center utilization, and behavioral helath symptoms. At least 38 rural students in grades 6-12 with poor school attendance and their parents/guardians will meet with the school-based community health worker for support around social determinants of health needs that may be barriers to attendance. Researchers will also assess the feasibility of recruiting at least 10 rural students and their parents/guardians to complete the study measures in an enhanced usual care condition in which the school-based health center without a school-based community health worker is reminded of the availability of an online social services directory.

Detailed Description

The HERE pilot study will consist of two phases to strengthen and finalize the HERE school-based community health worker (SB-CHW) intervention. The 6-month Phase I will provide broad stakeholder feedback on the proposed model and rationale, the SB-CHW intervention, the associated domains and measures, and the evaluation. The following 18-month Phase II will align with the school year and provide a feasibility test of the training, intervention, data collection, and analyses.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
126
Inclusion Criteria
  • A member of the program's Community Advisory Board, including community health workers;
  • Caregiver of a child ages 12-18 from the Southeast Kansas region; or
  • Student at least 12 years in age.

Phase II Feasibility Pilot- SB-CHW Intervention and Enhanced Usual Care Conditions

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Children in grades 6-12 (ages 12-18) and their parents/guardians from the Southeast Kansas region
  • Student with or at risk for chronic poor attendance (missing 10% or more of the days that school has been in session at any point in the school year)
Exclusion Criteria
  • Parents/guardians or youth with profound intellectual/cognitive disability will be excluded.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Study Phase II: School-based Community Health Worker InterventionSchool-Based Community Health Worker (SB-CHW) interventionThe School-Based Community Health Worker (SB-CHW) intervention is the active intervention in the Phase II feasibility trial.
Study Phase II: Enhanced Usual CareEnhanced Usual Care (EUC) MethodsEnhanced usual care (EUC) is the comparator in the Phase II feasibility trial.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
School Based Health Services UtilizationAt study completion (an average of 10 months/1 school year)

The number of visits to School Based Health Centers (SBHC)

School AttendanceAt study completion (an average of 10 months/1 school year)

The number of school days in attendance, collected by ½ day increments

1(b) determination whether the student continues to meet the definition of chronic poor attendance (Yes/No)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
School-Based Community Health Worker InteractionsAt study completion (an average of 10 months/1 school year)

Number of CHW interactions with the student, parent/guardian, and/or both

Parent & Child Self-Sufficiency and NeedsAt enrollment, at study completion (an average of 10 months/1 school year)

Arizona Self-Sufficiency Matrix. An 18-item self-report measure assessing needs on a 5-point Likert scale, including Housing, Employment, Income, Food, Childcare, Children's Education, Adult Education, Health Care Coverage, Life Skills, Family/Social Relations, Mobility, Community Involvement, Parenting Skills, Legal, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Safety, and Disabilities.

Process for Enhanced Usual CareAt enrollment, at study completion (an average of 10 months/1 school year)

Use of resources from the online social services directory (yes/no)

Child and Adolescent Needs and StrengthsAt enrollment, at study completion (an average of 10 months/1 school year)

Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) is a validated semi-structured interview that assesses children's exposure to potentially traumatic experiences \& level of traumatic stress symptoms, as well as considering strengths (Kisiel \& Fehrenbach, 2015).

Family EngagementAt enrollment, at study completion (an average of 10 months/1 school year)

The Family Engagement Survey -- Version 2 (FES), a validated measure of family and school engagement consisting of 20 items rated on a Likert-type scale from 1 (Strongly Disagree) to 5 (Strongly Agree).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Kansas Medical Center

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Kansas City, Kansas, United States

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