Advanced Care Coordination and Enhanced Linkage and Retention Among Transitional Re-Entrants

Description

The overarching goal of this study is to develop a peer-based care coordination intervention for individuals with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) who were recently released from correctional settings to promote linkage to and retention in HCV care. The investigators will assess the existing barriers and facilitators of HCV treatment initiation, HCV treatment completion, and sustained virologic response among individuals recently released from a U.S. jail or prisons in a randomized control trial. This study will assess the feasibility and process measures of a peer-enhanced HCV care coordination intervention among recently incarcerated individuals.

Conditions

Hepatitis C

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The overarching goal of this study is to develop a peer-based care coordination intervention for individuals with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) who were recently released from correctional settings to promote linkage to and retention in HCV care. The investigators will assess the existing barriers and facilitators of HCV treatment initiation, HCV treatment completion, and sustained virologic response among individuals recently released from a U.S. jail or prisons in a randomized control trial. This study will assess the feasibility and process measures of a peer-enhanced HCV care coordination intervention among recently incarcerated individuals.

HCV-ACCELERATE Advanced Care Coordination and Enhanced Linkage and Retention Among Transitional Re-Entrants

Advanced Care Coordination and Enhanced Linkage and Retention Among Transitional Re-Entrants

Condition
Hepatitis C
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Greenville

Prisma Health-Upstate, Greenville, South Carolina, United States, 29605

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * currently incarcerated or recently released from a U.S. jail or prison (6 months)
  • * Chronic HCV with documented detectable viral load
  • * 18 years old
  • * Fluent in English or Spanish
  • * Resident of the Upstate area of South Carolina
  • * Unable to sign informed consent
  • * Life expectancy of less than 1 year
  • * Plans to relocate from the Upstate area of South Carolina in the next 6 months

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Montefiore Medical Center,

Matthew Akiyama, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Alain Litwin, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Prisma Health-Upstate

Study Record Dates

2026-06