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Can community health workers improve heart failure care in rural haiti?

NCT ID NCT05091710

Disease control Sponsor: Boston Medical Center Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time

Summary

This pilot study tested a program where community health workers (CHWs) provided follow-up calls and home visits to heart failure patients after hospital discharge in rural Haiti. The goal was to see if the program was acceptable and feasible for patients, CHWs, and healthcare staff. Thirty adult patients participated, and the study measured how many completed follow-up visits and how well the program worked.

What this could mean

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Active substance
community health worker follow-up program
What this could lead to
If successful, this program could improve heart failure care and reduce hospital readmissions in rural Haiti.
What could go wrong
This is a small pilot study with only 30 participants, so results may not apply broadly. The intervention relies on local resources and may be hard to scale.

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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

30 people

The number who actually took part.

Started

Feb 2023

Finished

Aug 2025

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

Not accepted

This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.

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Inclusion Criteria for patient participant: * Adult HF patients * Hospitalized \>48 hours at Hôpital-Universitaire de Mirebalais (HUM) * Anticipated discharge from HUM within 1-3 days * Living in Mirebalais Commune, Haiti Inclusion criteria for historical patient reference group * Adult HF patients * Hospitalized \>48 hours at HUM * Discharged from HUM within the 12 months preceding the intervention * Living in Mirebalais Commune Exclusion Criteria for patient participant and historical patient reference group: * None Inclusion Criteria for CHW * Adult * Provide inpatient or outpatient care to HF patients * Working in in Mirebalais Exclusion Criteria for CHW * None Inclusion criteria for healthcare staff (provider/administrator) * Hospital leadership involved in supervision of clinical care programs (i.e. Chief Executive Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, etc.) * Leaders of the Community Health Department - including the nurse Director of Community Health, and Community Health Worker Supervisors. * Healthcare providers at HUM involved in the care of patients with heart failure (i.e. internal medicine physicians, inpatient hospital nurses, outpatient clinic physicians, outpatient clinic nurses, etc.) Exclusion criteria for healthcare staff (provider/administrator) * None

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Conditions

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heart failure

As listed by the trial registrant

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Heart failure

Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Zanmi Lasante/Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais

    Mirebalais, Haiti

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