Passport to Freedom: Health and Housing

NCT ID: NCT04322903

Last Updated: 2020-07-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: WITHDRAWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-10-01
• Study Completion Date: 2022-12-01

Brief Summary

The purpose of the Passport to Freedom (P2F) Health and Housing is to provide formerly homeless women a supportive group to process the impact of trauma on the women's overall health and wellbeing, learn strategies to reduce the symptoms of trauma and stress, and increased ability to cope with everyday stress while maintaining permanent housing.

Detailed Description

The proposed project will use a mixed method design to examine the feasibility and effectiveness of the Passport to Freedom (P2F) Program, an intervention for formerly homeless women currently housed through a supportive permanent housing program. P2F involves: three 2-hr sessions to promote physical and emotional wellbeing through mindfulness techniques and health promotion activities; two home visits to provide individualized sessions with a nurse and a community health navigator; and a follow-up session 4 weeks after intervention to discuss the women's perception of the intervention. By the end of the program, women will have improved emotional self-regulation in response to everyday stress, positive perception of managing women's overall health, and increased confidence in maintaining stable housing.

Conditions

Trauma

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Trauma-informed mindfulness-based stress reduction program

The program includes three 2-hr sessions to promote physical and emotional wellbeing through mindfulness techniques and health promotion activities; two home visits to provide individualized sessions with a nurse and a community health navigator; and a follow-up session 4 weeks after intervention to discuss perception of the intervention.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Passport to Freedom (P2F)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

During the P2F sessions, the women learn to understand and process the impact of multiple traumas on women's lives and health and learn specific strategies to overcome the symptoms of trauma and everyday stress. Each session will begin and end with a mindfulness exercise to provide different strategies the women can use when these women are in a stressful situation. At the end of each session, the participants will complete a session evaluation. The women will also have a home visit or telephone call with a community health navigator who will conduct a social determinant of health screenings assessment to determine what identified social barriers these women may have. The community health navigator will help with linking the participant to a community agency that addresses the identified problem. Four weeks after the completion of the program, the women will be contacted for a follow-up interview to learn the effectiveness of the program sessions.

Interventions

Passport to Freedom (P2F)

During the P2F sessions, the women learn to understand and process the impact of multiple traumas on women's lives and health and learn specific strategies to overcome the symptoms of trauma and everyday stress. Each session will begin and end with a mindfulness exercise to provide different strategies the women can use when these women are in a stressful situation. At the end of each session, the participants will complete a session evaluation. The women will also have a home visit or telephone call with a community health navigator who will conduct a social determinant of health screenings assessment to determine what identified social barriers these women may have. The community health navigator will help with linking the participant to a community agency that addresses the identified problem. Four weeks after the completion of the program, the women will be contacted for a follow-up interview to learn the effectiveness of the program sessions.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Women 18 years to 55 years, may be parents
• Able to read and write English
• Formerly homeless and currently living in permanent supportive housing through the Women's Housing Coalition Program.

Exclusion Criteria

• Under 18 years of age
• Inability to speak or write English

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 55 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Urban Health Institute

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Johns Hopkins University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Kim Hill, MS

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Other Identifiers

IRB00239900

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id