Housing Conditions: Evaluation, Advocacy and Research in Toronto Community Housing

Housing Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Housing Conditions: Evaluation, Advocacy and Research in Toronto Community Housing

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04131101
• Other study ID #: SMH-18-154
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 22, 2018
• Est. completion date: June 2020

Study information

• Verified date: October 2019
• Source: St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This project will examine whether a health promotion campaign using community organizing and joint advocacy by a coalition of tenants, health providers, social service agencies and advocates can lead to improvements in building conditions and health in social housing.

Description:

This community based participatory research project will bring together patients of the St. Michael's Hospital Academic Family Health Team (FHT) who are tenants of Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) with health providers, legal service staff at the Health Justice Program, social service agencies and advocacy organizations to advocate to improve building conditions in three TCHC buildings. The researchers will evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of this health promotion campaign as well as changes in the state of housing and self rated physical and mental health of tenants.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 53
• Est. completion date: June 2020
• Est. primary completion date: June 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years or older

• Living in one of the three TCHC buildings

Exclusion Criteria:

• under 18 years old

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Housing

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Community Organizing
The intervention will be community organizing and will consist of engaging tenants, health providers, legal service staff, social service agencies and advocacy organizations (e.g. ACORN). Each building team will identify initial priorities and then invite all building members to discuss and to finalize, as well as a plan for change. Building teams will engage in advocacy to TCHC and its representatives, and other city departments as appropriate. Engaging in advocacy will consist of a wide range of activities but essentially means presenting evidence (e.g. personal experiences, data) to policymakers and decision makers to affect change.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	St. Michael's Hospital	Toronto	Ontario

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Tenant engagement in intervention	Acceptability of the intervention, assessed through qualitative focus groups with participants.	12 months
Primary	Building conditions	Change in the state of housing evaluated by a questionnaire completed by tenants and official reports from the Toronto Community Housing Corporation.	12 months
Primary	Health (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) scale)	Change in self-rated physical and mental health, sense of security, social integration, evaluated by surveys of residents using PROMIS scale	12 months