Improving the Mental Health of Home Health Aides

Part of paid clinical trials in New York, New York.

Sponsor
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Study ID
NCT06071221
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Mental Health Issue

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Living Healthy educational program + peer coaching — BEHAVIORAL
    The Living Healthy intervention is an 8-session health education program with cognitive behavioral training (CBT) techniques. For those in the interventional arm, the Living Healthy intervention program will be delivered by trained peer coaches by telephone or Zoom over 3 months. In this study, trained peer coaches are trained home health aides themselves. Informed by social cognitive theory (SCT), peer coaches train participants on cognitive behavior techniques and empower participants to adopt positive health behaviors through personalized goal setting, motivational interviewing, and peer modeling. Each content-based session incorporates principles of CBT, teaching participants to recognize and modify negative thinking and modifying outcome expectations through self-monitoring, reflection, and practice.
  • Living Healthy educational program — BEHAVIORAL
    Participants assigned to receive health education alone will be asked to read health education (online; covering aspects of the Living Healthy program) which corresponds to a weekly topic about health. They will be called by a research assistant each week to prompt them to do this and answer any questions they might have about the materials.

Study Details

The goal of this study is to improve the mental health of home health aides, a workforce that provides care for adults at home but whose own health has been historically poor. The main questions the study aims to answer are: * Will a health program called Living Healthy, which provides health education and support with positive thinking, be used by home health aides and do they like it? * Does Living Healthy actually improve home health aides' mood compared to what they usually do to take care of themselves? Participants in the study will get an 8-week health program called Living Healthy over 3 months. Some of the participants will also have a 'peer coach' who is another home health aide who's been trained to help them with the program and learn some ways to feel better. The study will compare the experiences of home health aides who get Living Healthy plus a peer coach with those who only get the Living Healthy program.

Key Dates

Start date
Jan 27, 2025
Status verified
Dec 2025
Primary completion
Jun 30, 2026
Completion
Jun 30, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
100 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Arms

  • Experimental: Living Healthy educational program + Peer Coaching
    Home Health Aides (HHAs) will receive educational content via the CareConnect application, an eLearning mobile platform that provides educational courses for HHA certification and keeps track of their service hours to maintain NYS compliance. HHAs in this intervention arm will receive the 8-session adapted Living Healthy program via CareConnect over 3 months. Each HHA will be paired with a trained Peer Coach participant who will work through the structured program with the HHA.
  • Active Comparator: Living Healthy educational program
    Home Health Aides (HHAs) in the attention control arm will receive an 8-session CareConnect delivered general health program (covering topics distinct from the Living Healthy intervention) that is strictly informational without any elements of CBT.

Primary Outcome Measure

Fidelity to study protocol (intervention arm) [ Time Frame: at 6 months post-intervention ]

Central Contacts

Locations (2)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
1199 SEIU Home Care Industry Education FundNew YorkNew York10018
Faith Wiggins
[email protected]
Weill Cornell MedicineNew YorkNew York10021
Madeline R Sterling, MD, MPH, MS
[email protected]
646-962-5029
Madeline R Sterling, MD, MPH, MS (PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR)

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