Healthy Communities Through CHW Initiatives

NCT ID: NCT05965869

Last Updated: 2025-11-21

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

400 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-08-01

Study Completion Date

2028-07-31

Brief Summary

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Latino(a)s suffer from poor social determinants of health (SODH) conditions more than non-minority populations, and being a minority is risk factor alone for diabetes. In the proposed study, investigators will assist church members in becoming Community Health Workers (CHWs), train them in diabetes, and to track the ability to address healthcare access and quality barriers using an online platform.

Detailed Description

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Social determinants of health (SODH) are environmental variables that determine quality-of-life outcomes and risks that are delineated into five domains. Inequities in SODH are directly associated with diabetes. Latino(a)s suffer from poor SODH conditions more than non-minority populations, and being a minority is risk factor alone for diabetes. To quantify progress in SODH, Healthy People 2030 has provided specific objectives to measure each domain (economic stability, education access and quality, healthcare access and quality, neighborhood and build environment, and social and community context); this application focuses on the healthcare access and quality domain. While there are numerous screening mechanisms to identify SODH conditions, there is a critical need to implement interventions that are translatable into real-world practices.

A successful intervention requires several components. For the community, sites are needed that can bring individuals together, making collaboration with faith-based establishments of particular interest. Religious institutions provide an infrastructure that will persist beyond funding periods and a framework for the community to share a responsibility of health promotion. Churches also provide an accessible and familiar setting to provide health outreach programs but often lack trained personnel to conduct initiatives. In addition, training leaders within these settings who can reach the community is essential. Community Health Workers (CHWs) are trusted leaders within their community. Training church members to become CHWs potentially establishes a site familiar to the surrounding communities led by trusted individuals who understand the population at hand. Finally, secure avenues to collect and transmit data are needed. Utilizing secure HIPAA-approved technology reduces risks of loss of confidentiality while allowing collection of valuable information that may not have been collected otherwise. Since COVID-19, investigators have increased the use of online platforms, but these modalities must be translatable to personnel with potentially little to no technological experience.

To address gaps in SDOH, the investigators propose a 6-month church-based intervention for Latino(a)s with and at risk for diabetes (n=460) in a two phase study, pilot followed by main study. We will assist church members in becoming CHWs, train them in diabetes, and use an online platform to track the ability to address healthcare access and quality barriers. The research team will provide telementoring to local community teams (church leadership and CHWs) to initiate the intervention. We will test the feasibility of the program using three pre-established areas of focus: acceptability, integration, limited efficacy testing.

Conditions

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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Risk

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Diabetes program and education

Receive diabetes program and education

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

diabetes program

Intervention Type OTHER

CHWs will contact participants weekly via phone or text, send bimonthly diabetes education videos, and provide optional monthly seminars.

Interventions

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diabetes program

CHWs will contact participants weekly via phone or text, send bimonthly diabetes education videos, and provide optional monthly seminars.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Spanish-speaking Latino(a)s adults

Exclusion Criteria

* pregnant state or anticipated state in the next 6 months
* Type 1 diabetes diagnosis
* Not geographically located to reach church site/attend classes
* Not Spanish-speaking, and
* Self-disclosed diagnosis of schizophrenia, psychotic/delusional disorder, or severe Alzheimer's disease.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Baylor College of Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Houston

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Elizabeth Vaughan, DO

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

Locations

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University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Galveston, Texas, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Elizabeth Vaughan, DO

Role: CONTACT

1-409-772-4182

Valeria Lescano

Role: CONTACT

Facility Contacts

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Erika LeGross

Role: primary

409-266-9400

References

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Provided Documents

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Document Type: Informed Consent Form

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Other Identifiers

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23-0169

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

23-0169

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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