Enhanced Housing Placement Assistance

HIV/AIDS Clinical Trial

— EHPA  

Official title:

An Enhanced Housing Placement Assistance (EHPA) Program for Homeless Persons Living With HIV/AIDS in New York City

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03334825
• Other study ID #: 17-049
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2012
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: September 2018
• Source: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Randomized controlled trial of housing placement assistance for homeless persons with HIV

Description:

Approximately 800 persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) reside in HIV emergency single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotels in New York City and do not have the ability to secure permanent housing on their own. The study evaluated a pilot program which fast-tracked PLWHA from HIV emergency SRO hotels into permanent housing. The Enhanced Housing Placement Assistance (EHPA) program had three components: 1) active recruitment of emergency SRO hotel residents with high need for housing; 2) assistance in the rapid (fast-track) acquisition of permanent housing; and 3) participation in a 12-month support services program designed to prevent PLWHA from relapsing into homelessness, with services focused on increasing clients' capacity to live independently and maintain housing stability. Participants were randomly assigned to either 1) EHPA or 2) usual care, which included standard connections to services and housing programs offered by the New York City HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA), Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA), or Ryan White services, and were followed over twelve months using a questionnaire developed with significant input from the target population of PLWHA residing in emergency SRO hotels.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 236
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: July 31, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Person living with HIV in New York City

• Residing in an New York City HASA single-adult single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotel

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to provide informed consent

• Inability to complete survey in English or Spanish

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• HIV/AIDS
• Housing Problems

Intervention

Other:
• Enhanced housing placement assistance
assistance in the rapid (fast-track) acquisition of permanent housing; and participation in a 12-month support services program designed to prevent PLWHA from relapsing into homelessness, with services focused on increasing clients' capacity to live independently and maintain housing stability
• Standard housing placement assistance
standard connections to services and housing programs offered by HASA, HOPWA, or Ryan White

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of Participants With Placement in Permanent Housing	supportive housing, rental assistance, other non-emergency housing, etc.	12 months post-enrollment
Secondary	Number of Participants With Engagement in HIV Care	any reported HIV viral load (VL) or CD4 test	12 months post-enrollment
Secondary	Number of Participants With HIV Viral Suppression	Last viral load is under 200 copies/mL	12 months post-enrollment