Florida Community-Engaged Research Alliance (FL-CEAL)

September 29, 2026 updated by: Olveen Carrasquillo, University of Miami

The purpose of the study is learn more about ways to help people with non-medical issues that can affect participant health. The study team will examine if Community Health Workers, members of a community who provide basic health and medical care within communities, are more helpful to people with non-medical issues than simple reading materials on how participants can do it themselves.

Study Overview

Status

Status

Indicates the current recruitment status or the expanded access status.
Recruiting

Conditions

Conditions

The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied. On ClinicalTrials.gov, conditions may also include other health-related issues, such as lifespan, quality of life, and health risks.

Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

A process or action that is the focus of a clinical study. Interventions include drugs, medical devices, procedures, vaccines, and other products that are either investigational or already available. Interventions can also include noninvasive approaches, such as education or modifying diet and exercise.

Study Type

Study Type

Describes the nature of a clinical study. Study types include interventional studies (also called clinical trials), observational studies (including patient registries), and expanded access.
Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

Enrollment

The number of participants in a clinical study. The "anticipated" enrollment is the target number of participants that the researchers need for the study.
900

Phase

Phase

The stage of a clinical trial studying a drug or biological product, based on definitions developed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The phase is based on the study's objective, the number of participants, and other characteristics. There are five phases: Early Phase 1 (formerly listed as Phase 0), Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, and Phase 4. Not Applicable is used to describe trials without FDA-defined phases, including trials of devices or behavioral interventions.
  • 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 Contact

Study Contact

The name and contact information for the person who can answer enrollment questions for a clinical study. Each location where the study is being conducted may also have a specific contact, who may be better able to answer those questions.

Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Florida
      • Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32611
        • Recruiting
        • University of Florida
        • Contact:
        • Contact:
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Elizabeth Shenkman, PhD
      • Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32224
        • Recruiting
        • Mayo Clinic Florida Comprehensive Cancer Center
        • Contact:
        • Contact:
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Odedina Folakemi, PhD
      • Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
        • Recruiting
        • University of Miami
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Olveen Carrasquillo
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Victor Cueto
        • Contact:
      • Miami, Florida, United States, 33130
        • Recruiting
        • Healthy Little Havana
        • Contact:
        • Contact:
          • Olveen Carrasquillo, MD MPH
          • Phone Number: 3052439765
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Islara X Souto
      • Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
        • Not yet recruiting
        • Florida International University
        • Contact:
        • Contact:
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Patria Rojas, PhD
      • Miami, Florida, United States, 33137
        • Recruiting
        • Health Choice Network
        • Contact:
        • Contact:
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Katherine Chung-Bridges, MD, MPH
      • Tallahassee, Florida, United States, 32307
        • Not yet recruiting
        • Florida A&M University
        • Contact:
        • Contact:
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Cynthia Harris, PhD
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Sandra Suther, PhD

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

Eligibility Criteria

The key requirements that people who want to participate in a clinical study must meet or the characteristics they must have. Eligibility criteria consist of both inclusion criteria (which are required for a person to participate in the study) and exclusion criteria (which prevent a person from participating). Types of eligibility criteria include whether a study accepts healthy volunteers, has age or age group requirements, or is limited by sex.

Ages Eligible for Study

13 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Individuals living within the target community who do not plan to move out of the community within the next six months
  • Having two un-met SDOH needs

Site Specific Inclusion Criteria:

University of Miami/ Healthy Little Havana Inclusion Criteria

  • Age 18 and over

Health Choice Network/ Broward Community Health Center/ Genesis Community Health Center Inclusion Criteria

  • Age 18 and over

Florida International University Inclusion Criteria -Latina Women Age 18 and over

Mayo Clinic Florida Inclusion Criteria

-Age 21 and over

Florida A&M University/ Mother Care Network Inclusion Criteria

  • Female minors between the ages 11-14 years
  • Black/African American; Hispanic or Non-Hispanic ethnicity

University of Florida Inclusion Criteria

  • Women aged 18 and over
  • Pregnant and recently post-partum minority women

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Are unable or unwilling to consent
  • Plans to move out of the community during the next six months
  • Enrollment in a research study addressing Social Determinants Of Health (SDOH) in the last three years.
  • Prisoners

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: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Participant Group / Arm

A group or subgroup of participants in a clinical trial that receives a specific intervention/treatment, or no intervention, according to the trial's protocol.
Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

A process or action that is the focus of a clinical study. Interventions include drugs, medical devices, procedures, vaccines, and other products that are either investigational or already available. Interventions can also include noninvasive approaches, such as education or modifying diet and exercise.
Experimental: Community Health worker Group

Participants in this group will be linked to a community health worker for up to 6 months and also be offered the opportunity to participate in group level activities
Behavioral: Community health workers (CHW)

Participants will meet with a Community Health Worker (CHW) who will help facilitate and provide personalized navigation to existing resources for addressing health challenges such as food insecurity and access to care. CHW will meet with participants in person or virtually at least three times for approximately 15-60 minutes for over the six month period
Active Comparator: Educational material group

Participants in this group will be provided with educational material on health resources for up to 6 months
Behavioral: Educational Materials

Participants will receive one time educational materials including information of existing health resources. Participants will be able to review materials at participant discretion.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, the planned outcome measure that is the most important for evaluating the effect of an intervention/treatment. Most clinical studies have one primary outcome measure, but some have more than one.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in General well-being (GWB), measured by the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI)
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months

In the PWI, each item is rated on a 0-to-10 scale (0 = No satisfaction at all; 10 = Very satisfied).
Baseline, 6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Secondary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, a planned outcome measure that is not as important as the primary outcome measure for evaluating the effect of an intervention but is still of interest. Most clinical studies have more than one secondary outcome measure.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in number of participants health insurance status as measured by CEAL Common Survey 4 (CS4)
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months

Health insurance status will measured by the number of participants who answered yes to the health insurance status
Baseline, 6 months
Change in number of participants having a usual source of care as measured by CEAL Common Survey 4 (CS4)
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months

Having a usual source of care will measured by the number of participants who answered yes to having usual source of care
Baseline, 6 months
Change in number of participants delayed medical care as measured by CEAL Common Survey 4 (CS4)
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months

Delayed medical care will measured by the number of participants who answered yes to having delayed medical care due the cost.
Baseline, 6 months
Food Insecurity as measured by U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service Questionnaire
Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months

Food security status is assigned as follows:

Raw score 0-1-High or marginal food security (raw score 1 may be considered marginal food security, but a large proportion of households that would be measured as having marginal food security using the household or adult scale will have raw score zero on the six-item scale) Raw score 2-4-Low food security Raw score 5-6-Very low food security
Baseline, 6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Sponsor

The organization or person who initiates the study and who has authority and control over the study.
University of Miami

Collaborators

Collaborators

An organization other than the sponsor that provides support for a clinical study. This support may include activities related to funding, design, implementation, data analysis, or reporting.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Westat

Investigators

Investigators

A researcher involved in a clinical study. Related terms include site principal investigator, site sub-investigator, study chair, study director, and study principal investigator.
  • Principal Investigator: Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, University of Miami

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

Study Start

The actual date on which the first participant was enrolled in a clinical study. The "anticipated" study start date is the date that the researchers think will be the study start date.
March 31, 2025

Primary Completion (Estimated)

Primary Completion

The date on which the last participant in a clinical study was examined or received an intervention to collect final data for the primary outcome measure. Whether the clinical study ended according to the protocol or was terminated does not affect this date. For clinical studies with more than one primary outcome measure with different completion dates, this term refers to the date on which data collection is completed for all the primary outcome measures. The "anticipated" primary completion date is the date that the researchers think will be the primary completion date for the study.
December 1, 2028

Study Completion (Estimated)

Study Completion

The date on which the last participant in a clinical study was examined or received an intervention/treatment to collect final data for the primary outcome measures, secondary outcome measures, and adverse events (that is, the last participant's last visit). The "anticipated" study completion date is the date that the researchers think will be the study completion date.
December 1, 2028

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

First Submitted

The date on which the study sponsor or investigator first submitted a study record to ClinicalTrials.gov. There is typically a delay of a few days between the first submitted date and the record's availability on ClinicalTrials.gov (the first posted date).
February 11, 2025

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

The date on which the study sponsor or investigator first submits a study record that is consistent with National Library of Medicine (NLM) quality control (QC) review criteria. The sponsor or investigator may need to revise and submit a study record one or more times before NLM's QC review criteria are met. It is the responsibility of the sponsor or investigator to ensure that the study record is consistent with the NLM QC review criteria.
February 11, 2025

First Posted (Actual)

First Posted

The date on which the study record was first available on ClinicalTrials.gov after National Library of Medicine (NLM) quality control (QC) review has concluded. There is typically a delay of a few days between the date the study sponsor or investigator submitted the study record and the first posted date.
February 17, 2025

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

Last Update Posted

The most recent date on which changes to a study record were made available on ClinicalTrials.gov. There may be a delay between when the changes were submitted to ClinicalTrials.gov by the study's sponsor or investigator (the last update submitted date) and the last update posted date.
October 1, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

The most recent date on which the study sponsor or investigator submitted changes to a study record that are consistent with National Library of Medicine (NLM) quality control (QC) review criteria. It is the responsibility of the sponsor or investigator to ensure that the study record is consistent with the NLM QC review criteria.
September 29, 2026

Last Verified

Last Verified

The most recent date on which the study sponsor or investigator confirmed the information about a clinical study on ClinicalTrials.gov as accurate and current. If a study with a recruitment status of recruiting; not yet recruiting; or active, not recruiting has not been confirmed within the past 2 years, the study's recruitment status is shown as unknown.
September 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

Other Study ID Numbers

Identifiers or ID numbers other than the NCT number that are assigned to a clinical study by the study's sponsor, funders, or others. These numbers may include unique identifiers from other trial registries and National Institutes of Health grant numbers.
  • 20240463
  • OT2HL158287 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
  • 6922-03-COVID-S005 (Other Grant/Funding Number: Westat)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

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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