Arizona CEAL: Linking Social Care With Healthcare Systems to Address SDOH
Sponsored by Sairam Parthasarathy
About this study
The goal of the Arizona Community Engagement Alliance (AZ-CEAL) will be to combine social care with healthcare programs. The study will be connecting selected patients from clinics with trained community health workers (CHW) who will assist participants in getting the help that is needed for their health such as transportation needs, accessing healthy food, health information, accessing good health care, job opportunities, and housing. The study will collect information from both the patients and the health care systems to test how effectively the care plan works over time.
Social drivers of health contribute significantly to disparities in health outcomes for many chronic diseases in low income populations. Social drivers of health and health related social needs exacerbate stress, allostatic load, chronic pain, and cardiovascular outcomes. And in recent years, the consistent and compelling evidence regarding how Social drivers of health influences health has led to growing recognition within healthcare systems of the need to addressing health-related factors upstream of the clinical encounter. Whilst health systems have started collecting patient-level Social drivers of health, most front-line healthcare workers have little time, skill, or resources to address Social drivers of health challenges (Implementation Gap). And, in the health systems we serve, soc…
Where this study is enrolling (2)
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Banner University Medical Center South
Tucson, Arizona
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UAHS Center for Sleep, Circadian, & Neuroscience Research Department of Medicine, University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Who can participate
Inclusion criteria
- ✓18 years of age or older
- ✓Must meet at least one of the three criteria:
- ✓Medicaid or dual-insured beneficiary or
- ✓Racial/ethnic minority or rural resident and
- ✓Household income in the bottom national quartile of household median income (low SES definition).
Exclusion criteria
- ✕Unable to provide informed consent due to cognitive impairment
- ✕Other specified reason that, in the opinion of the investigator makes the participant unsuitable for enrollment
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Trial data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov.