Community Health Through Engagement and Environmental Renewal

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Conditions studied: Family Relations, Blight

In brief

Community Health from Engagement and Environmental Renewal (CHEER) will leverage previous Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) community engagement projects to reach and intervene on a high need population. Disadvantage and poverty have long-term and transgenerational adverse impacts on social interaction and cohesion and residents' emotional and physical health. Mothers living and raising children in these conditions face multiple stressors without the community support previous generations relied on. Decades of research on American cities have connected the social, economic, and physical characteristics of neighborhoods with a lack of social cohesion, inability to maintain shared norms of acceptable behavior,and increases in health disparities and risky behaviors. Social cohesion and collective efficacy inversely associate with depression among youth. In a parallel manner, improved parenting practices and youth behavior directly associate with neighborhood social interactions and social cohesion. While these associations are suggestive, CHEER will directly test causal hypotheses at the neighborhood and family levels in a randomized control trial, that can significantly advance the evidence base for public health interventions: Family Youth Intervention (FYI) and an Environment: Social and Physical Intervention (ESPI) to increase social interaction, social cohesion, and collective efficacy and influence wellbeing of mothers and their youth.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT04362475
Run by: University of Alabama at Birmingham
People needed: 915
Starts: 2021-05-21
Expected to finish: 2025-09-01
Last updated by the study team: 2026-03-13

Who can join

Age: 11 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

For FYI, parents who reside in the FYI intervention neighborhood (North Titusville, South Titusville, Rising -West Princeton, and Belview Heights) and have a child age 11-16 years.
For ESPI, residents who live in the ESPI intervention neighborhoods (North Titusville, South Titusville, Druid Hills, and Fountain Heights).

You may not qualify if…

For FYI, does not met the above requirements and did not consent to participate.
For ESPI, not residing in one of the above neighborhoods and did not consent to participate.

Where it is running

UAB Center for the Study of Community Health — Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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