Status:

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

HEALing Communities Study

Lead Sponsor:

RTI International

Collaborating Sponsors:

Boston Medical Center

Columbia University

Conditions:

Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)

Eligibility:

All Genders

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

This study will test the impact of implementing the Communities That Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) intervention on opioid overdose deaths within 67 highly affected communities with the goa...

Detailed Description

The HEALing Communities Study (HCS) is a multi-site, parallel group, cluster randomized wait-list controlled trial to test the impact of the Communities That HEAL (CTH) intervention, which is designed...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • The community must be located in one of the four participating states: Kentucky, Ohio, Massachusetts, or New York.
  • At least 30% of the communities selected within each state must be rural.
  • Across all the HCS communities within each state, there must be a minimum of 150 opioid-related overdose fatalities (with at least 22 opioid-related overdose fatalities experienced by the rural communities) and a rate of at least 25 opioid-related overdose fatalities per 100,000 persons, based on 2016 data.
  • The community must express willingness to address in their response strategy the implementation of MOUD, overdose prevention training, and naloxone distribution across their community.
  • The community must express willingness to develop partnerships across health care, behavioral health, and justice settings for evidence-based practices to address opioid misuse, OUD, and overdoses.

Exclusion

  • Communities that did not meet the aforementioned inclusion criteria were excluded from the HCS.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 23 2019

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

September 30 2025

Estimated Enrollment :

67 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04111939

Start Date

October 23 2019

End Date

September 30 2025

Last Update

May 29 2025

Active Locations (4)

Enter a location and click search to find clinical trials sorted by distance.

Page 1 of 1 (4 locations)

1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40508

2

Boston Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02118

3

Columbia University

New York, New York, United States, 10027

4

Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210

HEALing Communities Study | DecenTrialz