The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the best way to help families access social and economic support services in order to improve children's health for hospitalized children and their families/caregivers.
The main question it aims to answer is, does providing active assistance from navigators to connect families to social/economic resources lead to greater improvements in child global health compared to providing passive referrals to resources among hospitalized children?
All families will receive a tailored information sheet with referrals to community resources to address their social/economic needs and an introduction to how to search for resources using an online program. Researchers will compare families who receive these resources with families who also receive support from trained navigators, people with knowledge about local resources trained to connect families with resources. The study will examine whether the addition of navigator support improves families' access to services and children's health outcomes.
children are hospitalized on the general pediatric/pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) team/service
the child is between the ages of 0-17
the child's caregiver is >17 years-old
the caregiver speaks English or Spanish
not hospitalized or hospitalized outside of general/PHM SERVICE
children are 18 years of age or older
caregiver/guardians are under the age of 18 years of age
caregivers are do not speak English or Spanish
University of California, San Francisco
Lead sponsor
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Collaborator
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Collaborator
Baylor University
Collaborator
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Collaborator