Housing Prescriptions as Health Care

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Conditions studied: Housing Instability, High Emergency Department Utilization, Medical Complexity

In brief

Housing Prescriptions as Health Care is a research project studying the effects of an innovative intervention that combines services across the health, housing, social and legal service sectors in order to improve housing stability and child health outcomes among participants. The housing intervention developed for this study specifically addresses issues including families who are: paying more than 50 percent of income on rent or utilities, moving frequently, experiencing homelessness, but are not eligible for shelter through the Department of Housing and Community Development's Emergency Assistance program, or were unable to pay rent on time in the past year. This research explores how coordinated and comprehensive housing services offered through intensive case management improves housing stability and health outcomes for families of young children.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02816294

Run by

Boston Medical Center

People needed

78

Starts

2016-10-01

Expected to finish

2021-03-30

Last updated by the study team

2021-04-02

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Caregiver of family experiencing housing instability
• One or more family members in the household must have had >= 3 emergency room visits in the past year or child with medical complexity enrolled in comprehensive clinical case management program
• Caregiver of child <11 years, who receives primary care at Boston Medical Center

You may not qualify if…

• None of the members of the household have had >=3 emergency room visits in the past year nor medically complex child enrolled in case management.
• Family in stable housing
• Index child not a primary care patient at Boston Medical Center
• All children in household >11 years

Where it is running

• Boston Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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