Recruiting

Community Health Worker

Sponsor:

University of Kansas Medical Center

Code:

NCT06460116

Conditions

Behavioral Symptoms

Community Health Workers

Social Determinants of Health

Educational Problems

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

School-Based Community Health Worker (SB-CHW) intervention

Enhanced Usual Care (EUC) Methods

Study Details

Brief summary:

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

Behavioral Symptoms

Community Health Workers

Social Determinants of Health

Educational Problems

Study ID

NCT06460116

Start date

May 15, 2026

Status verified date

Apr, 2026

Completion date

Dec 31, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Phase I Stakeholder Interviews (nonintervention):

Inclusion Criteria:

  • A member of the program's Community Advisory Board, including community health workers;
  • Caregiver of a child ages 12-18 from the Southeast Kansas region; or
  • Student at least 12 years in age.

Phase II Feasibility Pilot- SB-CHW Intervention and Enhanced Usual Care Conditions

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Children ages 12-18 and their parents/guardians from the Southeast Kansas region
  • Student with or at risk for chronic poor attendance (missing 10% or more of the days that school has been in session at any point in the school year)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Parents/guardians or youth with profound intellectual/cognitive disability will be excluded.

Study Design

Enrollment

126 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Non randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

no intervention: Study Phase I: Stakeholder Interviews

Phase I interviews with stakeholders (Community Advisory Board members, CHWs, community members, students Grade 6-12, \& parent stakeholders) will be completed to inform the school-based community health worker and the enhanced usual care conditions in the Phase 2 feasibility pilot.

experimental: Study Phase II: School-based Community Health Worker Intervention

The School-Based Community Health Worker (SB-CHW) intervention is the active intervention in the Phase II feasibility trial.

active comparator: Study Phase II: Enhanced Usual Care

Enhanced usual care (EUC) is the comparator in the Phase II feasibility trial.

Interventions

School-Based Community Health Worker (SB-CHW) intervention

The school-based community health worker will support students with chronic poor attendance and their parent/guardian for a minimum of two 30-minute encounters focused on addressing social determinants needs, understanding the range/student encounter varies greatly due to the intensity of the social need(s) (e.g., crisis/noncrisis) and the number of needs being jointly addressed. The SB-CHW will build relationships across encounters and apply trauma-informed best practices.

Enhanced Usual Care (EUC) Methods

The network of school-based health centers without school-based community health workers will receive reminders of the the existing online social services directory.

Primary outcome measure

  • School Based Health Services Utilization [ Time Frame: At study completion (an average of 10 months/1 school year) ]
  • School Attendance [ Time Frame: At study completion (an average of 10 months/1 school year) ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Eve-Lynn Nelson, PhD

(913) 588-6323enelson2@kumc.edu

Kelsey Dean

(816) 652-0065kdean@kumc.edu

Locations

University of Kansas Medical Center

Recruiting

Kansas City, Kansas, United States, 66160

More Information

Sponsor

University of Kansas Medical Center

Last update posted

Apr 20, 2026

Last verified

Apr, 2026

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Kansas Medical Center on 2026-04-20.