Study on the Impact of Patient Navigators on the Health Education and Quality of Life in Formerly Incarcerated Patients

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Conditions studied: HIV/AIDS, Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Substance Use

In brief

This is a 3-year prospective randomized comparative study of the efficacy of patient navigation on health education, health related quality of life, healthcare utilization, and medical outcomes in formerly incarcerated individuals. Individuals will be randomized to the patient-navigator intervention or to a care-as-usual control condition. A total of 300 recently incarcerated individuals will be enrolled with 150 subjects each in the intervention and usual care group. The investigators hypothesize that the intervention will improve health education, health related quality of life, adherence to clinical appointments, glycemic/blood pressure control, and virologic suppression in HIV-infected. The results of this study will demonstrate interventions to eliminate health disparities in a highly marginalized group going through the transitional phase of re-entry into the community.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02259634

Run by

St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center

People needed

144

Starts

2014-06-01

Expected to finish

2015-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-08-20

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• age 18 years or older
• English or Spanish speaking
• release from the correctional system within the previous 6 months

You may not qualify if…

• unable to provide informed consent
• report duration of incarceration of less than 5 days
• report history of incarceration more than 6 months ago

Where it is running

• Mount Sinai St. Luke's — New York, New York, United States
• Hunter College at The City University of New York — New York, New York, United States

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