A Randomized Trial of Effects of Parent Mentors on Insuring Minority Children

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Uninsured Children Eligible for Medicaid or CHIP

In brief

The Kids' HELP trial rigorously documented that a Parent Mentor intervention results in multiple benefits: more children are insured faster, children's access to healthcare and parental satisfaction improve, quality of well-child care is enhanced, thousands of dollars are saved per child, jobs are created, disparities are eliminated, and the intervention potentially could save our nation billions of dollars.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01264718

Run by

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

People needed

329

Starts

2010-12-01

Expected to finish

2016-05-31

Last updated by the study team

2019-04-19

Who can join

Age: any, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• The parent/guardian is a primary caretaker of a least one child 0-18 years old who currently has no health insurance
• The parent/guardian self-identifies the uninsured child as Hispanic/Latino, African-American/Black, or both
• The uninsured child is eligible for either Medicaid or CHIP
• The parent/guardian is willing to be contacted monthly by telephone, or in the form of a home visit (if no functioning telephone is present in the household).

Where it is running

• Connecticut Children's Medical Center — Hartford, Connecticut, United States
• UT Southwestern — Dallas, Texas, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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