Clinical trial NCT06737510: Improving Emergency Preparedness Among 9/11 Exposed Population: Implementation and Evaluation of an Emergency Preparedness Intervention
Official title: Improving Emergency Preparedness Among 9/11 Exposed Population: Implementation and
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Emergency Preparedness
Lead sponsor: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
First posted: 2024-12-17
Enrollment: 707
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 100
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: A two-arm parallel randomized controlled trial will be conducted to compare the effectiveness of a phone-based household emergency preparedness intervention with a mailed informational brochure on household emergency preparedness amongst a sample of World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees residing within New York City.
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: A two-arm parallel randomized controlled trial will be conducted to compare the effectiveness of a phone-based household emergency preparedness intervention with a mailed informational brochure on household emergency preparedness amongst a sample of World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees residing within New York City.

Detailed description: An intervention to enhance household emergency preparedness was developed to include the following topics: (1) an introduction to why emergency preparedness is important; (2) definition of what a disaster is; (3) family communication and evacuation plan (including, what is a family communication plan, why you should have one, communication plan checklist, family communication card); (4) disaster supplies (including, what types of supplies are needed, how long supplies should last, supply checklist; assembling a go bag , and storing supplies); and (5) The brochure included several resources, including disaster contact numbers for emergency and non-emergency calls: 911 or 311,, NYC Emergency Management, as well as website for additional information of preparedness: NYC.gov/hazards, which includes information specific to New York City hurricane evacuation zones.

The phone-based intervention consisted of a 15 - 20 minutes talk session completed over the phone following the format and topics noted above. The informational brochure intervention followed the format and topic above and was mailed to participants during the intervention period.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. English or Spanish speaking World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees aged 18 or older at the time of 9/11 residing in New York City.
2. Completed Wave 4 (2015-2016)
3. Those who are not rescue/recovery workers in either the NYPD or FDNY.

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Exclusion Criteria:

1. World Trade Center Health Registry enrollees under the age of 18 at the time of 9/11
2. Those with proxy interview at Wave 1
3. Enrollee was a rescue and recovery work affiliated with FDNY or NYPD at Wave 1

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Primary outcomes:
measure: The CASPER instrument sum score
timeFrame: up to 24 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Individual CASPER instrument items
timeFrame: up to 24 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New York
country: United States
facility: NYCDOHMH
state: New York
Study officials:
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