Families First Edmonton (FFE)

Low-Income Population Clinical Trial

— FFE  

Official title:

Families First Edmonton: The Comparative Effects and Expense of Four Models of Augmenting Services for Low-income Families

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00705328
• Other study ID #: 137444
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• First received: June 24, 2008
• Last updated: April 20, 2016
• Start date: December 2005
• Est. completion date: June 2011

Study information

• Verified date: April 2016
• Source: University of Alberta
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Ethics Review Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study is designed to provide clear evidence for health and social policymakers about the influence of alternate service-delivery models and practices on enhancing and sustaining low-income family linkages to available services. A challenge faced by Canadian health and social service providers is to promote health for low-income families in a proactive and cost-effective manner. Families with low incomes experience an array of health and social barriers that compromise their resilience, lead to negative family outcomes, and act as barriers to available services. Family barriers are compounded by service delivery barriers and result in reduced opportunities for effective, primary-level services and in increased use of secondary-level services (e.g., emergency room visits, emergency intervention, police involvement), with the obvious increase in costs. Randomized-controlled trials are rare in community-based intervention research.

This Families First Edmonton randomized-controlled trial (RCT) will enable testing of innovative service-delivery models and provide an opportunity for evidence-based decision making for Canadian policy makers. Critical information will be provided about

1. optimizing cost effectiveness for public systems

2. the long-term effects on the health of low-income family members

3. mechanisms that intervene between the interventions and their effect on the health of low-income family members

4. building on previous research and on community-based initiatives

5. promoting knowledge transfer

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 2400
• Est. completion date: June 2011
• Est. primary completion date: June 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participant families will

1. have received low-income assistance either in the form of

1. Alberta Works Income Support

2. Alberta Child Health Benefits,

3. Alberta Works Adult Health Benefits

4. participating in City of Edmonton Leisure Access Program

5. living in Capital Region Housing

2. have a child or children between 0 and 12 years of age

3. reside in city of Edmonton

4. be able to provide signed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Potential study participants will be excluded if they refuse to give informed consent to be interviewed

• are unable to read and write English and an appropriate translator is not available

• have plans to move outside the region

• are unwilling to participate for the entire follow-up period

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Low-Income Population

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Primary Health Care Model (PRMHLTH)
Primary health care service delivery
• Recreation Coordination Model (REC)
Recreation coordination service delivery
• Comprehensive Model (COMP)
a comprehensive service delivery model consisting of PRMHLTH plus REC.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Alberta Human Resources and Employment	Edmonton	Alberta

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Alberta

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

References & Publications (1)

Browne G, Byrne C, Roberts J, Gafni A, Whittaker S. When the bough breaks: provider-initiated comprehensive care is more effective and less expensive for sole-support parents on social assistance. Soc Sci Med. 2001 Dec;53(12):1697-710. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Increased linkages between low income families and established services in their communities		Baseline, 12-month, 24-month, 36-month follow-up	No

External Links

•   Families First Edmonton Homepage