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采用同伴外展与整体健康康复方案帮助无家可归退伍军人 (EMPOWER)

2026年9月29日 更新者:VA Office of Research and Development

针对有无家可归经历退伍军人的“运用同伴外展与整体健康促进康复(EMPOWER)”:一项混合型III类实施试验(QUE 25-014)

Homelessness is a national crisis in the United States, particularly in the veteran population. Due to multiple chronic conditions, homeless individuals frequently become hospitalized or are treated in emergency departments. Care engagement can mitigate this risk. Interventions grounded in evidence-based practices of peer support and whole health are effective for increasing care engagement. However, implementation of such interventions with high-acuity patients often requires strategies that are intensive and costly. This trial will evaluate the relative impacts and costs of using a high-intensity (vs. low-intensity) strategy to implement a peer-led, whole health intervention for homeless-experienced Veterans in permanent supportive housing.

研究概览

详细说明

Background: Homelessness is a national crisis in the United States, particularly in the Veteran population. Due to multiple chronic conditions, homeless individuals have elevated risk for acute care service use. Engagement in primary and specialty care can mitigate this risk. Interventions grounded in evidence-based practices of peer support, patient-centered care, and whole health are effective for increasing service engagement. However, implementation of such interventions with high-acuity patients often requires multi-component strategies that are intensive and costly. This study protocol describes a hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation trial of Employing Peer Outreach and Whole Health in Recovery (EMPOWER) with high-need, homeless-experienced Veterans in permanent supportive housing and will evaluate the impact and cost of a high-intensity (vs. low-intensity) strategy on implementation outcomes.

Methods: (Aim 1) At 7 sites in the Veterans Health Administration (VA), a mixed methods pre-implementation evaluation will identify determinants and their potential impact on uptake of the EMPOWER and inform modifications to the intervention and implementation strategies as needed. (Aim 2) A staircase cluster randomized design will evaluate the rollout of the implementation strategies, beginning with Audit and Feedback (low-intensity) and then switching to Facilitation (high-intensity) after 6 months. Facilitation is hypothesized to have a greater impact on the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation (fidelity), and maintenance of EMPOWER. (Aim 3) A budget impact analysis will estimate the average cost of implementing EMPOWER at future sites and comparative costs for implementing the low- and high-intensity strategies.

Anticipated Impact: This study will provide information on the relative impacts and relative costs of strategies aimed at implementing a peer-led, patient-centered, whole health intervention for homeless-experienced Veterans in permanent supportive housing. The findings will provide guidance to VA and other healthcare systems that serve the aging population of homeless-experienced Veterans.

研究类型

介入性

注册 (估计的)

278

阶段

  • 不适用

联系人和位置

本节提供了进行研究的人员的详细联系信息,以及有关进行该研究的地点的信息。

学习联系方式

研究联系人备份

学习地点

    • California
      • Palo Alto、California、美国、94304-1207
        • VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA
        • 接触:
        • 首席研究员:
          • Daniel M. Blonigen, PhD MA

参与标准

研究人员寻找符合特定描述的人,称为资格标准。这些标准的一些例子是一个人的一般健康状况或先前的治疗。

资格标准

适合学习的年龄

18年 及以上 (成人、年长者)

接受健康志愿者

不

有资格学习的性别

全部

描述

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Eligible patients will be identified from VA's Homeless Registry "Hot Spot" reports, which use real-time data on acute care service utilization to identify high-need, housing-insecure patients.

  • These reports identify Veterans on the VA Homeless Registry (i.e., those who had received VA housing services in the past two years) who had >1 hospital admissions and/or >2 emergency department (ED) visits in the past quarter of the fiscal year.

  • From these reports, the investigators will identify patients at each implementation site who are

    • (a) currently enrolled in HUD-VASH
    • (b) have a mental health and/or substance use disorder (SUD) diagnosis

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Not flagged on the VA's Homeless Registry Hot Spot Report
  • Not currently enrolled in HUD-VASH
  • Does not have a mental health and/or substance use disorder diagnosis
  • Is not a patient at a participating site of the implementation trial

学习计划

本节提供研究计划的详细信息,包括研究的设计方式和研究的衡量标准。

研究是如何设计的?

设计细节

  • 主要用途:卫生服务研究
  • 分配:非随机化
  • 介入模型:顺序分配
  • 屏蔽:无(打开标签)

武器和干预

参与者组/臂
干预/治疗
有源比较器:Low-Intensity (LI)

For the LI phase of a site's implementation, a light-touch strategy will be used to implement EMPOWER; specifically, Audit and Feedback. In Audit and Feedback, key stakeholders at sites receive summarized data about their performance relative to a standard or benchmark. Specifically, HUD-VASH peers and supervisors at each site will be emailed monthly automated reports on EMPOWER fidelity data from the EHR (e.g., % of HUD-VASH patients with a Personal Health Plan note) as well as aggregated data on treatment engagement via the Hot Spot dashboard (e.g., % of HUD-VASH Veterans with an SUD diagnosis who received SUD specialty care in the past month). The monthly reports will include tailored action item recommendations based on the local site's performance. Under the LI strategy, sites will not be provided interactive support to review these reports.

EMPOWER is a multicomponent intervention to facilitate homeless-experienced Veterans' (HEVs) care engagement: (DATA ANALYTICS) HUD-VASH case managers identify high-need, HUD-VASH Veterans on the Homeless Registry Hot Spot Report. Veterans' profiles are reviewed to learn about their chronic health conditions, housing status, acute care use, and engagement in supportive care. (PEER SUPPORT): HUD-VASH peers meet with identified Veterans for up to six months, averaging once-per week sessions for the first three months, with step-down in frequency as Veterans begin to engage in services and reach their goals. (WHOLE HEALTH): During sessions, peers use a Whole Health approach to collaboratively develop personal health goals that align with the Veteran's priorities and values-e.g, help Veterans completing a Personal Health Inventory and developing a Personal Health Plans. Provider communications: Peers communicate with a Veteran's care providers to share the Veteran's personal health goals.

其他名称:
  • 赋能
实验性的:High-Intensity (HI)

For the HI phase of a site's implementation, a higher-intensity strategy will be used to implement EMPOWER; specifically, Facilitation. Facilitation is a collaborative strategy in which trained individuals work with organizations or teams to support the adoption, implementation, and sustainment of an evidence-based practice (EBP). It is a dynamic process that involves tailored guidance, problem-solving, technical assistance, and capacity-building activities to address specific barriers and leverage facilitators of change. To this end, external facilitators often collaborate with local champions to bring expertise regarding the implementation processes and have transferable knowledge in relevant clinical and behavior change models that inform the EBP's implementation.

EMPOWER is a multicomponent intervention to facilitate homeless-experienced Veterans' (HEVs) care engagement: (DATA ANALYTICS) HUD-VASH case managers identify high-need, HUD-VASH Veterans on the Homeless Registry Hot Spot Report. Veterans' profiles are reviewed to learn about their chronic health conditions, housing status, acute care use, and engagement in supportive care. (PEER SUPPORT): HUD-VASH peers meet with identified Veterans for up to six months, averaging once-per week sessions for the first three months, with step-down in frequency as Veterans begin to engage in services and reach their goals. (WHOLE HEALTH): During sessions, peers use a Whole Health approach to collaboratively develop personal health goals that align with the Veteran's priorities and values-e.g, help Veterans completing a Personal Health Inventory and developing a Personal Health Plans. Provider communications: Peers communicate with a Veteran's care providers to share the Veteran's personal health goals.

其他名称:
  • 赋能

研究衡量的是什么?

主要结果指标

结果测量
措施说明
大体时间
Reach
大体时间:18 months

Reach will be measured in terms of the number of patients who are willing to receive EMPOWER, out of all patients that are estimated to be eligible at potential sites.

18 months
Adoption
大体时间:18 months

Adoption will be measured in terms of the number of peers in HUD-VASH at sites that are trained in EMPOWER and initiate the intervention with eligible patients at their site.

18 months
Implementation
大体时间:18 months

Implementation will be measured in terms of rate of completion of peer encounters at the site level and rate of completion of the elements of EMPOWER (e.g., percentage of EMPOWER patients with a Personal Health Plan entered into the EHR; percentage of EMPOWER patients who were referred to a Whole Health service at the local facility). These rates will be measured via activity logs embedded in the EHR and electronic data capture logs to document type and length of encounters.

18 months
Maintenance
大体时间:18 months

Maintenance will be measured by the number of patients who are continuing to engage in EMPOWER and other VA services over the duration of the implementation phase (18 months).

18 months

次要结果测量

结果测量
措施说明
大体时间
Effectiveness - Mental Health Outpatient Care
大体时间:6 months

Among patients who receive EMPOWER and have a mental health diagnosis, the number of outpatient visits for mental health care they receive after 6 months, as measured by VA administrative data (e.g., stop codes of outpatient encounters).

6 months
Effectiveness - Substance Use Disorder Outpatient Care
大体时间:6 months

Among patients who receive EMPOWER and have a diagnosis of a substance use disorder (SUD), the number of outpatient visits for SUD care they receive after 6 months, as measured by VA administrative data (e.g., stop codes of outpatient encounters).

6 months
Effectiveness - Primary Care
大体时间:6 months

Among patients who receive EMPOWER, the number of primary care visits they attend after 6 months, as measured by VA administrative data (e.g., stop codes of outpatient encounters).

6 months
Effectiveness - Whole Health care
大体时间:6 months

Among patients who receive EMPOWER, the number of outpatient visits for Whole Health-related care they receive after 6 months, as measured by VA administrative data (e.g., stop codes of outpatient encounters of health coaching and other complementary and integrative services).

6 months
Effectiveness - Hospitalizations
大体时间:6 months

Among patients who receive EMPOWER, the number of bed days of care for ambulatory-care sensitive conditions after 6 months, as measured by VA administrative data (e.g., Bedsection codes).

6 months
Effectiveness - Emergency department (ED) visits
大体时间:6 months

Among patients who receive EMPOWER, the number of visits to an emergency department after 6 months, as measured by VA administrative data (e.g., stop codes).

6 months

合作者和调查者

在这里您可以找到参与这项研究的人员和组织。

调查人员

  • 首席研究员:Daniel M. Blonigen, PhD MA、VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA

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研究记录日期

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研究主要日期

学习开始 (估计的)

2027年1月1日

初级完成 (估计的)

2030年7月1日

研究完成 (估计的)

2030年9月30日

研究注册日期

首次提交

2025年12月15日

首先提交符合 QC 标准的

2025年12月15日

首次发布 (实际的)

2025年12月30日

研究记录更新

最后更新发布 (实际的)

2026年10月2日

上次提交的符合 QC 标准的更新

2026年9月29日

最后验证

2026年9月1日

更多信息

与本研究相关的术语

计划个人参与者数据 (IPD)

计划共享个人参与者数据 (IPD)?

不

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研究美国 FDA 监管的药品

不

研究美国 FDA 监管的设备产品

不

在美国制造并从美国出口的产品

不

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