Enhanced Housing Placement Assistance (EHPA)

September 6, 2018 updated by: Ellen Wiewel, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

An Enhanced Housing Placement Assistance (EHPA) Program for Homeless Persons Living With HIV/AIDS in New York City

Randomized controlled trial of housing placement assistance for homeless persons with HIV

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Approximately 800 persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) reside in HIV emergency single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotels in New York City and do not have the ability to secure permanent housing on their own. The study evaluated a pilot program which fast-tracked PLWHA from HIV emergency SRO hotels into permanent housing. The Enhanced Housing Placement Assistance (EHPA) program had three components: 1) active recruitment of emergency SRO hotel residents with high need for housing; 2) assistance in the rapid (fast-track) acquisition of permanent housing; and 3) participation in a 12-month support services program designed to prevent PLWHA from relapsing into homelessness, with services focused on increasing clients' capacity to live independently and maintain housing stability. Participants were randomly assigned to either 1) EHPA or 2) usual care, which included standard connections to services and housing programs offered by the New York City HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA), Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA), or Ryan White services, and were followed over twelve months using a questionnaire developed with significant input from the target population of PLWHA residing in emergency SRO hotels.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

236

Phase

  • Not Applicable

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

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Person living with HIV in New York City
  • Residing in an New York City HASA single-adult single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotel

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Inability to provide informed consent
  • Inability to complete survey in English or Spanish

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: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Enhanced housing placement assistance
Other: Enhanced housing placement assistance
assistance in the rapid (fast-track) acquisition of permanent housing; and participation in a 12-month support services program designed to prevent PLWHA from relapsing into homelessness, with services focused on increasing clients' capacity to live independently and maintain housing stability
Active Comparator: Standard housing placement assistance
Other: Standard housing placement assistance
standard connections to services and housing programs offered by HASA, HOPWA, or Ryan White

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Number of Participants With Placement in Permanent Housing
Time Frame: 12 months post-enrollment
supportive housing, rental assistance, other non-emergency housing, etc.
12 months post-enrollment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Number of Participants With Engagement in HIV Care
Time Frame: 12 months post-enrollment
any reported HIV viral load (VL) or CD4 test
12 months post-enrollment
Number of Participants With HIV Viral Suppression
Time Frame: 12 months post-enrollment
Last viral load is under 200 copies/mL
12 months post-enrollment

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Ellen W Wiewel, DrPH, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
  • Principal Investigator: Vivian L Towe, PhD, RAND

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)

April 1, 2012

Primary Completion (Actual)

July 31, 2017

Study Completion (Actual)

July 31, 2017

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 3, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 3, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

November 7, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

February 8, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 6, 2018

Last Verified

September 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 17-049

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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