The Social Needs Assistance for Hospitalized Kids Trial

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Conditions studied: Social Needs, Health-Related Social Needs, Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), Social Needs Status, Conditions Influencing Health Status, Navigation

In brief

The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the best way to help families access social and economic support services in order to improve children's health for hospitalized children and their families/caregivers. The main question it aims to answer is, does providing active assistance from navigators to connect families to social/economic resources lead to greater improvements in child global health compared to providing passive referrals to resources among hospitalized children? All families will receive a tailored information sheet with referrals to community resources to address their social/economic needs and an introduction to how to search for resources using an online program. Researchers will compare families who receive these resources with families who also receive support from trained navigators, people with knowledge about local resources trained to connect families with resources. The study will examine whether the addition of navigator support improves families' access to services and children's health outcomes.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07687238

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

1880

Starts

2026-09-01

Expected to finish

2030-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-07-07

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Aim 1 - Caregiver-Child Dyads Sample
• Caregiver-child dyads will be eligible to participate in the study if they meet the following criteria assessed during the recruitment and enrollment process:
• children are hospitalized on the general pediatric/pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) team/service
• the child is between the ages of 0-17
• the child's caregiver is >17 years-old
• the caregiver speaks English or Spanish
• the family lives in the same county as the hospital or in a neighboring county to the hospital
• the child is not in Child Protective Services custody
• the family has not previously been enrolled in the study
• the caregiver screens positive for >=1 of the following social risks: food insecurity, housing instability, housing quality concerns, transportation needs, utilities needs, child care needs, or financial strain
• the family is not enrolled in another social needs assistance-related research study (e.g., another social needs navigation study)
• Aim 2 - Caregiver and Community-based Organization (CBO) Qualitative Interviews Sample Caregivers of children enrolled in Aim 1 will be eligible for study interviews.
• CBO staff will be eligible to participate if they are:
• > 17 years old
• speak English or Spanish
• work at a CBO serving the area in which patients at the study sites live

You may not qualify if…

• Aim 1 - Caregiver-Child Dyads Sample
• Participants will be excluded from participation if they are:
• not hospitalized or hospitalized outside of general/PHM SERVICE
• children are 18 years of age or older
• caregiver/guardians are under the age of 18 years of age
• caregivers are do not speak English or Spanish
• the family does not live in the same or neighboring county of the recruitment hospital
• the child is under the care of Child Protective Services custody
• the family has already been previously enrolled in the study
• the caregiver does not screen positive for any of the following social risks: food insecurity, housing instability, housing quality concerns, transportation needs, utilities needs, child care needs, or financial strain
• the family is already enrolled in a social needs assistance-related research study (e.g., another social needs navigation study)
• Aim 2 - Caregiver and CBO qualitative interviews Caregivers of children not enrolled in Aim 1 will not be eligible to participate study interviews.
• CBO staff will not be eligible to participate if they are:
• under 18 years of age
• do not speak English or Spanish
• do not work at a CBO serving the recruitment site areas

Where it is running

• UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - Oakland — Oakland, California, United States
• UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States
• Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center — San Francisco, California, United States
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital — Houston, Texas, United States
• Texas Children's Hospital - West Campus — Houston, Texas, United States

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