Clinical trial NCT01939704: Community to Clinic Linkage Program at SFGH
Official title: Community to Clinic Linkage Program at SFGH
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Family's Connection to Community Resources and Public Benefits
Caregiver Satisfaction and Connectedness to Clinic
Child Health Care Status
Lead sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2013-09-11
Enrollment: 1809
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: It is increasingly clear that the environment in which a child lives, plays, and goes to school has a significant impact on their health. With the implementation of a Community to Clinic Linkage Program (CCLiP) in the SFGH Pediatrics Clinics, we will routinely address Social Determinants of Health when families present. We will randomize patients to receive either the CCLiP intervention or standard of care. We will evaluate programmatic outcome, health care utilization data and return on investment data. We hypothesize that by addressing the environmental and social factors that contribute to health within the setting of the medical home, we will be able to better connect families to community resources, enable more appropriate use of healthcare resources, improve health status, and enhance patient satisfaction.

Detailed description: We are proposing a 4-arm, 18 month randomized control clinical trial to address social determinants of health, improve health status and health care satisfaction, and change health care utilization patterns in the Pediatric Urgent Care and Primary Care Clinics at San Francisco General Hospital. We will compare our CCLiP protocol to standard of care in both the Pediatric Primary Care Clinic \& Urgent Care. All arms (intervention and control) include a baseline survey including social needs assessment, health care status, health care satisfaction and health care utilization assessment; and two telephone-based follow up surveys at 3 and 6 months. Patients in the intervention arms (whether in urgent care or primary care) will receive a maximum of 3 months of intervention protocol which includes a 30 minute on-site intervention at time of enrollment in addition to twice monthly follow-up phone calls for up to 3 months to help address social needs. Patients in all arms will receive 3 and 6-month follow up surveys.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* English or Spanish Speaking
* Parent/caregiver accompanying an SFGH Primary Care or Urgent Care Clinic patient 0-17 years old
* Consenting adult over or equal to 18 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

* Non-English or non-Spanish speaking caregiver
* Caregiver under age 18
* Caregiver accompanying patient is not familiar with the child's living situation
* Family participated in study previously
* Non-San Francisco resident
* Foster child or child in clinic for a child protective clearance exam

Primary outcomes:
measure: Family's connection to community resources and public benefits
timeFrame: up to 6 months post base-line
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Child health care utilization
timeFrame: up to 6 months
measure: Child health status
timeFrame: up to 6 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Caregiver satisfaction with care/connectedness to clinical setting
timeFrame: up to 6 months
Locations:
city: San Francisco
country: United States
facility: San Francisco General Hospital
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
name: Laura M Gottlieb, MD, MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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