A Place-Based Community Health Worker Program: Feasibility and Early Outcomes, New York City, 2015.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This study examined feasibility of a place-based community health worker (CHW) and health advocate (HA) initiative in five public housing developments selected for high chronic disease burden and described early outcomes.

Methods

This intervention was informed by a mixed-method needs assessment performed December 2014-January 2015 (representative telephone survey, n=1,663; six focus groups, n=55). Evaluation design was a non-randomized, controlled quasi-experiment. Intake and 3-month follow-up data were collected February-December 2015 (follow-up response rate, 93%) on 224 intervention and 176 comparison participants, and analyzed in 2016. All participants self-reported diagnoses of hypertension, diabetes, or asthma. The intervention consisted of chronic disease

SUBMITTER: Lopez PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5656273 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature