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| ID | Type | Description | Link |
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| R01MD018213 | U.S. NIH Grant/Contract | View source |
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| National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) | NIH |
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether a homelessness diversion program integrated into a hospital emergency department (ED) will lower ED use, to identify characteristics of individuals most likely to benefit from homelessness diversion and to discover opportunities to tailor Homelessness Diversion (HD) services to better meet the needs of diverse communities.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Homeless diversion (HD) group | Experimental |
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| Treatment-as-usual (TAU) group | Active Comparator |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Homeless diversion (HD) | Behavioral | Participants will receive services from specialty-trained community health workers and will be invited to complete monthly assessments via text and phone to assess their health and housing for 6 months and to share feedback on their experience with the intervention after completion by a text message to a link for the survey |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Number of ED visits | end of study (6 months after start of study) |
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| Number of participants who experience homelessness | end of study (6 months after start of study) | |
| Change in health related quality of life as assessed by the Short Form-12 version 2.0 (SF12v2) health Survey | This is a 12 item questionnaire and scores range from 0 to 100, where a zero score indicates the lowest level of health and 100 indicates the highest level of health. |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Jack Tsai, PhD | The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Houston | Texas | 77030 | United States |
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| Treatment-as-usual (TAU) | Behavioral | Participants will receive a list of community resources they can contact to receive services and will be invited to complete monthly assessments via text and phone to assess their health and housing for 6 months and to share feedback on their experience with the intervention after completion by a text message to a link for the survey |
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| baseline, month 1, month 2, month 3, month 4, month 5 and month 6 |