Improving the Mental Health of Home Health Aides

ConditionMental Health Issue

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age18+

SponsorWeill Medical College of Cornell University

About this trial

The goal of this study is to improve the mental health of home health aides, a workforce that provides care for adults at home but whose own health has been historically poor. The main questions the study aims to answer are:

* Will a health program called Living Healthy, which provides health education and support with positive thinking, be used by home health aides and do they like it? * Does Living Healthy actually improve home health aides' mood compared to what they usually do to take care of themselves?

Participants in the study will get an 8-week health program called Living Healthy over 3 months. Some of the participants will also have a 'peer coach' who is another home health aide who's been trained to help them with the program and learn some ways to feel better.

The study will compare the experiences of home health aides who get Living Healthy plus a peer coach with those who only get the Living Healthy program.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Currently working as a home health aide

Speak English or Spanish

≥ 18 years of age

Have mild depressive symptoms (Personal Health Questionnaire 8-item [PHQ8] scale ≥ 5 points), or other risk factors for poor mental health as assessed by the following domains including stress (Cohen's Perceived Stress 4-item scale [PSS4] ≥5) or loneliness (≥6 on the 3-item UCLA Loneliness scale).

Disqualifiers

Speak a language other than English or Spanish

Less than 1 year of job experience as a home health aide

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

Living Healthy educational program + peer coaching
Living Healthy educational program

Treatment groups

100 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Lead sponsor

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov