Comparing Two Social Needs Assistance Interventions to Improve Health Among Hospitalized Children
University of California, San Francisco
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the best way to help families access social and economic support services in order to improve children's health for hospitalized children and their families/caregivers. The main question it aims to answer is, does providing active assistance from navigators to connect families to social/economic resources lead to greater improvements in child global health compared to providing passive referrals to resources among hospitalized children? All families will receive a tailored information sheet with referrals to community resources to address their social/economic needs and an introduction to how to search for resources using an online program. Researchers will compare families who receive these resources with families who also receive support from trained navigators, people with knowledge about local resources trained to connect families with resources. The study will examine whether the addition of navigator support improves families' access to services and children's health outcomes.
Description
This multi-center randomized clinical trial (RCT) will compare the effectiveness of two interventions that help families connect with community-based resources to address social and economic needs (e.g., food insecurity, housing instability) on the health of hospitalized children: 1) passive referral (providing information to families about community-based organizations \[CBOs\] that can help address their social/economic needs and an introduction to an online resource to search for resources; vs. 2) active assistance by navigators -additionally providing the support of trained navigators to h…