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Could a helping hand with housing and food cut hospital visits?

NCT ID NCT07799961

Disease control Sponsor: Sairam Parthasarathy Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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First seen Sep 02, 2026 · Last updated Sep 03, 2026 · Updated 1 time

Summary

This trial tests whether trained community health workers can help adults with high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol address social needs like transportation, healthy food, housing, and job opportunities. Participants from clinics will be connected to a health worker who helps them find local resources, and researchers will track how often they need unplanned medical care. The goal is to see if combining social care with healthcare improves health and reduces strain on the system.

What this could mean

Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.

Active substance
Community health worker intervention
What this could lead to
If it works, linking patients to social services could reduce unplanned hospital visits and improve blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol control.
What could go wrong
The trial is early and depends on how well community health workers and clinics coordinate. Social needs are complex, so benefits may vary or be hard to sustain.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

Not a phased trial

Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.

Participants

About 740 people

The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.

Started

Dec 2024

Expected to finish

Apr 2028

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

Other sponsor

The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.

Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

18 years and older

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Accepted

You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.

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Inclusion Criteria: * 18 years of age or older * Must meet at least one of the three criteria: * Medicaid or dual-insured beneficiary or * Racial/ethnic minority or rural resident and * Household income in the bottom national quartile of household median income (low SES definition). Exclusion Criteria: * Unable to provide informed consent due to cognitive impairment * Other specified reason that, in the opinion of the investigator makes the participant unsuitable for enrollment

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

Chronic Disease diabetes mellitus Hypercholesterolemia hypercholesterolemia, familial, 1 hypertensive disorder

As listed by the trial registrant

The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.

Diabetes mellitus Hypercholesterolaemia Hypertension Social determinants of health (SDOH)

How to take part

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  1. The places running it

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  2. The official record

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Banner University Medical Center South

    RECRUITING

    Tucson, Arizona, 85713, United States

  • UAHS Center for Sleep, Circadian, & Neuroscience Research Department of Medicine, University of Arizona

    RECRUITING

    Tucson, Arizona, 85724, United States

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