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Community Health Workers and Mobile Health for Emerging Adults Transitioning Sickle Cell Disease Care
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Peer Community Health Worker and Mobile Health for Sickle Cell Disease. Completed, enrolled 405 participants across 5 sites.
Detailed Summary
This study will compare the effectiveness of two self-management support interventions-Community Health Workers (CHW) and mobile health (mHealth)-versus enhanced usual care to improve health-related quality of life and acute care use for transitioning youth with sickle cell disease (SCD), and identify and quantify mediators and moderators of intervention treatment effects.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Participants will be communicating with their CHWs on a weekly basis, which is consistent with other successful community health worker protocols with published efficacy. Community Health Workers will be peers with sickle cell disease, who have successfully transitioned and are under 30 years of age.
A mobile health application created as a resource for young adults transitioning.