NCT05667675

Targeting Child Mental Health and Household Poverty

Completed NA Last updated 9 October 2024

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Community Support Worker in Poverty in 37 participants. Completed in 31 July 2024.

Timeline

18 April 2019

Primary endpoint
30 March 2022

31 July 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Imaan Bayoumi
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	37
Start date	18 April 2019
Primary completion	30 March 2022
Estimated completion	31 July 2024
Sites	1 location across Canada

Drugs / interventions tested

• Community Support Worker
• Control

Conditions studied

• Poverty — all drugs for Poverty →
• Child Health — all drugs for Child Health →
• Behavior Problem — all drugs for Behavior Problem →

Sponsor

Imaan Bayoumi

Who can join

Adults 2 to 5, any sex, with Poverty or Child Health. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Living in poverty has long-lasting negative effects on children's mental health and on their mental health in adulthood. Child poverty is very common, affecting 17% of Canadian children. Many low income families may not be getting all the social benefits they are entitled to receive. Increasingly, there are calls for primary care providers to ask all patients about poverty and to intervene if poverty is identified. However, it is not known if an intervention can improve children's health. This study will test the effect of having a Community Support Worker work with families of children age 2-5 years during a primary care visit to identify unmet financially related social needs (like food, housing or energy insecurity) and help families navigate the social service system. The Community Support Worker will help families complete income tax, apply for benefits and community supports to which they are entitled. The investigators will study the effect on child emotional and behavioural health, parent stress and depression and family income. Results from this study will help health care providers and policy makers understand whether this is an effective way to integrate the health and social service systems to improve child and parent health.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Connecting Families: Poverty Screening and Financial Support Navigation for Families of Young Children in Primary Care: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
   Bayoumi I, Parkin PC, Martin M, Keown-Stoneman CDG, et al · · 2025 · cited 1× · PMID 40139488 · DOI 10.1016/j.acap.2025.102820