Housing Conditions: Evaluation, Advocacy and Research in Toronto Community Housing (HEARTH)

October 17, 2019 updated by: Unity Health Toronto
This project will examine whether a health promotion campaign using community organizing and joint advocacy by a coalition of tenants, health providers, social service agencies and advocates can lead to improvements in building conditions and health in social housing.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

This community based participatory research project will bring together patients of the St. Michael's Hospital Academic Family Health Team (FHT) who are tenants of Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) with health providers, legal service staff at the Health Justice Program, social service agencies and advocacy organizations to advocate to improve building conditions in three TCHC buildings. The researchers will evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of this health promotion campaign as well as changes in the state of housing and self rated physical and mental health of tenants.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

53

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

  • Canada
    • Ontario
      • Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B1W8
        • St. Michael's Hospital

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:

  • 18 years or older
  • Living in one of the three TCHC buildings

Exclusion Criteria:

  • under 18 years old

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: OTHER
  • Allocation: NA
  • Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
  • Masking: NONE

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Community Organizing
All tenants in three TCHC buildings will be invited to participate in a survey on their building conditions at baseline, 6 months and 12 months. Once baseline data collection is complete, there will be a community organizing campaign involving tenants to advocate for improved building conditions.
Behavioral: Community Organizing
The intervention will be community organizing and will consist of engaging tenants, health providers, legal service staff, social service agencies and advocacy organizations (e.g. ACORN). Each building team will identify initial priorities and then invite all building members to discuss and to finalize, as well as a plan for change. Building teams will engage in advocacy to TCHC and its representatives, and other city departments as appropriate. Engaging in advocacy will consist of a wide range of activities but essentially means presenting evidence (e.g. personal experiences, data) to policymakers and decision makers to affect change.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Tenant engagement in intervention
Time Frame: 12 months
Acceptability of the intervention, assessed through qualitative focus groups with participants.
12 months
Building conditions
Time Frame: 12 months
Change in the state of housing evaluated by a questionnaire completed by tenants and official reports from the Toronto Community Housing Corporation.
12 months
Health (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) scale)
Time Frame: 12 months
Change in self-rated physical and mental health, sense of security, social integration, evaluated by surveys of residents using PROMIS scale
12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Unity Health Toronto

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Andrew Pinto, MSc MD, Unity Health Toronto

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)

October 22, 2018

Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED)

June 1, 2020

Study Completion (ANTICIPATED)

June 1, 2020

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 31, 2019

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 17, 2019

First Posted (ACTUAL)

October 18, 2019

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)

October 18, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 17, 2019

Last Verified

October 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • SMH-18-154

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

UNDECIDED

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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