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Improving the Mental Health of Home Health Aides

Weill Medical College of Cornell University · with Doris Duke Charitable Foundation · NCT06071221

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 18+ · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
100
US sites recruiting
2
Study start
January 27, 2025
Record last updated
August 20, 2026

Status re-checked against ClinicalTrials.gov within the last 12 hours.

What the study is about

The goal of this study is to improve the mental health of home health aides, a workforce that provides care for adults at home but whose own health has been historically poor. The main questions the study aims to answer are:

  • Will a health program called Living Healthy, which provides health education and support with positive thinking, be used by home health aides and do they like it?
  • Does Living Healthy actually improve home health aides' mood compared to what they usually do to take care of themselves?

Participants in the study will get an 8-week health program called Living Healthy over 3 months. Some of the participants will also have a 'peer coach' who is another home health aide who's been trained to help them with the program and learn some ways to feel better.

The study will compare the experiences of home health aides who get Living Healthy plus a peer coach with those who only get the Living Healthy program.

Being studied: Living Healthy educational program + peer coaching; Living Healthy educational program

Conditions: Mental Health Issue

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

  • Currently working as a home health aide
  • Speak English or Spanish
  • ≥ 18 years of age
  • Have mild depressive symptoms (Personal Health Questionnaire 8-item [PHQ8] scale ≥ 5 points), or other risk factors for poor mental health as assessed by the following domains including stress (Cohen's Perceived Stress 4-item scale [PSS4] ≥5) or loneliness (≥6 on the 3-item UCLA Loneliness scale).

Exclusion Criteria

  • Speak a language other than English or Spanish
  • Less than 1 year of job experience as a home health aide

Recruiting US locations

  • 1199 SEIU Home Care Industry Education Fund

    New York, NY 10018

    Site contact: Faith Wiggins · faith.wiggins@1199funds.org

  • Weill Cornell Medicine

    New York, NY 10021

    Site contact: Madeline R Sterling, MD, MPH, MS · 646-962-5029 · mrs9012@med.cornell.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Madeline R Sterling, MD, MPH, MS · 6469625029 · mrs9012@med.cornell.edu
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