Realizing Opportunities for Self-Supported Improvement (ROSSI) (ROSE-SAFE)

March 26, 2020 updated by: Catherine Cerulli, University of Rochester

Healing Through Education, Advocacy and Law (HEAL) in Response to Violence

This is a 3-year comparative effectiveness study funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and will test an adapted priority-based patient navigation versus care as usual among 300 survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) recruited from, and/or referred from, University of Rochester Medical Center providers. The goal is to improve patient safety, depression, and health function over the course of 12 months. In the Community Health Worker -Personalized Support for Progress (CHW-PSP) arm, created and tested in our first UR PCORI grant, in addition to meeting with a social worker, patients will work with a Community Health Worker (CHW) to complete a prioritization tool and meet as needed over the course of the next 6 months to navigate services and overcome barriers. In addition, patients will receive referrals to other professionals based on their prioritization and meet with the CHW at the time and place of their choice. Patients in the Care as Usual- Social Worker (CAU-SW) arm, will do intake with a social worker, who follows hospital procedures for intake and referrals, does a needs assessment, and offers safety planning in referral.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

231

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

    • New York
      • Rochester, New York, United States, 14620
        • University of Rochester

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Subjects must be English speaking URMC patients, who are 18 years of age or older, and/or the non-offending parent on a CPS report for a URMC pediatrics patient, and who have experienced an IPV or emotional abuse event within the past 3 months.

IPV is defined as endorsing any of the following items:

  1. Slapped, kicked, pushed, choked, or punched?
  2. Forced or coerced to have sex?
  3. Threatened you with a knife or gun to scare or hurt you?
  4. Made you feel afraid that you would be physically hurt?
  5. Repeatedly used words, yelled, or screamed in a way that frightened you?
  6. Threatened you, put you down, or made you feel rejected? Yes No Additional inclusion criteria include depression based on PHQ-9 score of >10.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Subjects are ineligible if they have active psychosis or alcohol or substance dependence based on 3 months threshold on the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI).
  • Additionally, patients who are unable to understand the consent form or study procedures, are imminently suicidal, or are currently working with a CHW will be excluded.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: the Community Health Worker -Personalized Support for Progress
Patients will work with a Community Health Worker (CHW) to complete a prioritization tool and meet as needed over the course of the next 6 months to navigate services and overcome barriers. In addition, patients will receive referrals to other professionals based on their prioritization and meet with the CHW at the time and place of their choice.
Subjects will meet with their CHW to prioritize their needs detected by the Promote psychosocial screening and identify their preferences for intervention using a secure, online card sorting tool called Optimal Sort. The subject will explain her/his rationale for each decision to the CHW, allowing them both to begin to identify goals. The prioritization survey results provide subjects a personalized package of services that map onto the four main intervention options: legal help, problem solving therapy, medical consultation, or social services.
Other Names:
  • CHW-PSP
Active Comparator: Care as Usual- Social Worker
Patients in the Care as Usual- Social Worker (CAU-SW) arm, will do intake with a social worker, who follows hospital procedures for intake and referrals, does a needs assessment, and offers safety planning in referral.
Based on their assessment and the subjects' needs, brief onsite interventions are provided and consist of empowerment focused advocacy, IPV education, community referrals, and safety planning. Participants determine follow-up. This will be a short-term interaction as routinely practiced across hospital settings.
Other Names:
  • CAU-SW

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Patient Safety
Time Frame: immediate post intervention (6 months)
To assess whether CHW-PSP improves patient safety, as compared to CAU-SW Participants will complete the Conflict Tactics Scale-2 a modified from a 20-item self-report measure 10 assessing areas of negotiation, psychological aggression, physical assault, sexual coercion and injury. They will also complete the Danger Assessment, a 20-item measure to assess danger and lethality in a participant's experiences of violence and has documented reliability and validity. We will further assess safety with Steps for Safety instrument.The National Center for State Courts created the 18-item measure to document what safety steps a victim had taken post intervention. We will also receive Rochester Police Department (RPD) 911 call data, which is available to the public, and link the calls to our patients via address geomapping.
immediate post intervention (6 months)
Depression
Time Frame: 9 months
To assess whether CHW-PSP leads to improved depression and health function post-intervention (9 months). The PHQ-9 is a screen for major depressive disorder with good discriminant validity and sensitivity to change that has been validated in variety of settings.
9 months
Quality of Life
Time Frame: 12 months
The effect of the Project Rose-SAFE intervention on the outcome of patient QoL will be mediated by increases in patient safety. The World Health Organization developed the WHOQOL-BREF to assess overall quality of life. It includes 4 summary scales: physical, psychological, social, and environment, plus a total score. The WHOQOL-BREF gives equal attention to the function and to a patient's assessment of the importance of that level of function, was designed to detect change over time, and is associated with change in depression.
12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Catherine Cerulli, JD, PhD, University of Rochester

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

April 15, 2017

Primary Completion (Actual)

November 30, 2019

Study Completion (Actual)

January 31, 2020

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 6, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 9, 2017

First Posted (Estimate)

January 10, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 30, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 26, 2020

Last Verified

March 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • IHS-1507-31543

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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