Official Title: Recovery Legal Care Clinical Trial
Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Status Verified Date: 2024-09
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: No
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: HVIP-MLP
Brief Summary: Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs HVIPs affiliated with trauma centers in the US often focus on individual behavior modification for reduction in re-victimization There is a lack of reproducible evidence that has demonstrated effectiveness given the exclusion of addressing inequities in the Social and Structural Determinants of Health SSDOH often the root causes of violent injury and preventable homicide The study investigators created a Medical Legal Partnership MLP to partner with an existing HVIP This novel program offers beside legal assistance to address the SSDOH The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the HVIP-MLP program in improving violence-related outcomes legal needs health-related quality of life PTSD symptoms and perceived stress
Detailed Description: National trauma center verification relies on a commitment to injury prevention efforts including prevention of community-level violence Hospital-Based Violence Recovery Programs HVIPs have expanded across the country as extensions of level I and II trauma centers to address trauma recidivism with individual behavioral modification during the teachable moment There is little evidence that has demonstrated consistent effectiveness of this approach One possible reason is the difficulty for community-based violence prevention specialists from HVIP programs to address the larger inequities in the Structural and Social Determinants of Health SSDOH that lead to violence through Medical-Legal Partnership is one approach that has demonstrated evidence and success in improving health outcomes and reducing health-harming legal needs of patients by connecting legal experts to medical experts for holistic care This has yet to be done for trauma patients and has to our knowledge not been incorporated into any HVIP approach thus far This clinical trial will evaluate the effectiveness of the HVIP-MLP model to address legal needs rooted in the SSDOH and improve violence-related outcomes As secondary objectives it will also evaluate whether the HVIP-MLP model can improve health-related quality of life PTSD symptoms and perceived stress among study participants This novel HVIP-MLP approach has the potential to broadly impact the HVIP model to include an MLP component to all trauma centers for verification to support patients families and providers alike in this important public health work