RECRUITING

Health Equity and Rural Education (HERE!) Clinical Trial

Study Overview

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Description

The goal of this community-engaged research is two-fold. The first goal is to gather stakeholder feedback to inform a school-based community health worker intervention with youth with poor school attendance and an enhanced usual care condition. The second goal is to evaluate the feasibility of implementing the school-based community health worker intervention and enhanced usual care approach within rural schools. The main question it aims to answer is whether it is feasibile to recruit children with poor school attendance and their families to the intervention, to complete the trauma-informed intervention, and to complete the associated study measures of meeting social determinants of health/mental health needs, school-based health center utilization, and behavioral helath symptoms. At least 38 rural students in grades 6-12 with poor school attendance and their parents/guardians will meet with the school-based community health worker for support around social determinants of health needs that may be barriers to attendance. Researchers will also assess the feasibility of recruiting at least 10 rural students and their parents/guardians to complete the study measures in an enhanced usual care condition in which the school-based health center without a school-based community health worker is reminded of the availability of an online social services directory.

Official Title

Health Equity and Rural Education (HERE!) Clinical Trial: A Healthcare-Community Partnership Leveraging School-Based Community Health Workers to Improve Student Attendance

Quick Facts

Study Start:2025-08
Study Completion:2026-07-31
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:RECRUITING

Study ID

NCT06460116

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.

Ages Eligible for Study:12 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Yes
Standard Ages:CHILD, ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * A member of the program's Community Advisory Board, including community health workers;
  2. * Caregiver of a child ages 12-18 from the Southeast Kansas region; or
  3. * Student at least 12 years in age.
  1. * Parents/guardians or youth with profound intellectual/cognitive disability will be excluded.

Contacts and Locations

Study Contact

Eve-Lynn Nelson, PhD
CONTACT
(913) 588-6323
enelson2@kumc.edu
Kelsey Dean
CONTACT
(816) 652-0065
kdean@kumc.edu

Principal Investigator

Eve-Lynn Nelson, PhD
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Kansas Medical Center

Study Locations (Sites)

University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas, 66160
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center

  • Eve-Lynn Nelson, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Kansas Medical Center

Study Record Dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2025-08
Study Completion Date2026-07-31

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2025-08
Study Completion Date2026-07-31

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Behavioral Symptoms
  • Community Health Workers
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Educational Problems