Community Health Workers and mHealth for Sickle Cell Disease Care

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Conditions studied: Sickle Cell Disease

In brief

This study will compare the effectiveness of two self-management support interventions-Community Health Workers (CHW) and mobile health (mHealth)-versus enhanced usual care to improve health-related quality of life and acute care use for transitioning youth with sickle cell disease (SCD), and identify and quantify mediators and moderators of intervention treatment effects.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT03648710
Run by: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
People needed: 405
Starts: 2019-01-15
Expected to finish: 2024-08-31
Last updated by the study team: 2024-12-04

Who can join

Age: 17 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

Males or females age 17 years or older
Have sickle cell disease, defined as those individuals with HbSS, HbSC, HbSβ0Thal, HbSβ+Thal genotypes
Receive care at a participating pediatric sickle cell disease center.
Appropriate for transfer to an adult hematologist within 12 months

You may not qualify if…

Individuals with an intellectual disability that is severe enough that the individual would not have the capacity to interact with a mobile or web-based program even with assistance or have a conversation with a community health worker (i.e. non-verbal). Individuals without access to a mobile device, tablet or computer.

Where it is running

Connecticut Children's Medical Center — Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Cohen's Children's Medical Center — New Hyde Park, New York, United States
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
St. Christophers Hospital for Children — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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