Actively Recruiting
Health Equity and Rural Education (HERE!) Clinical Trial
Led by University of Kansas Medical Center · Updated on 2026-04-20
126
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
32 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
U
University of Kansas Medical Center
Lead Sponsor
N
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
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.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Health Equity and Rural Education (HERE!) Clinical Trial
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Children ages 12 to 18 and their parents or guardians from the Southeast Kansas region
- Student with or at risk for chronic poor attendance, missing 10% or more of school days during the school year
- Members of the program's Community Advisory Board, including community health workers (for Phase I)
- Caregivers of children ages 12-18 from Southeast Kansas (for Phase I)
- Students at least 12 years old (for Phase I)
You will not qualify if you...
- Parents, guardians, or youth with profound intellectual or cognitive disability
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas, United States, 66160
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
E
Eve-Lynn Nelson, PhD
CONTACT
K
Kelsey Dean
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
3
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