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Sisters for Heart Health: A Community Health Worker Initiative for Improving Heart Health in Farmworker Women

Emory University · with National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) · NCT07111026

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 18–50 · Women only
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
269
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
September 16, 2025
Record last updated
June 8, 2026

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What the study is about

The goal of this hybrid Type 1 effectiveness-implementation trial is to test the extent to which a peer support and community resource navigation intervention improves psychological well-being, addresses non-biologic drivers of health (access to healthcare, supportive services, nutrition, housing stability, transportation, chronic stress, social support), and thus reduces cardiometabolic risk among rural, low-income farmworker women aged 18-50 years. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • If and to what extent does the intervention reduce stress, social isolation, and psychological distress by improving social support and access to needed resources?
  • If and to what extent does the intervention improve cardiometabolic health, measured by the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 (LE8) score?

Researchers will compare the CHW-led Sisters for Heart Health intervention to a Basic intervention (LE8 assessment and resource information) to assess the effect of peer support and community resource navigation on heart health outcomes.

Being studied: Sisters for Heart Health; Basic intervention

Conditions: Occupational Stress; Gender Related Stress; Social Isolation; Hypertension; Pre Diabetes; Diabetes; Obesity

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

  • Self-identified female employed as a farmworker;
  • Fluent in Spanish or English verbal literacy
  • Planning to be in the geographic area for a minimum of 6 months.

Exclusion Criteria

  • Cognitive or psychological impairment precluding informed consent and/or active participation in the study due to substance use, neurologic, or other disorder
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding.

Recruiting US locations

  • Southern GA - Colquitt County

    Ellenton, GA 31747

    Site contact: Stephany Medina-Molina · stephanymolina@emory.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Erin Ferranti, PhD · 404-712-9551 · epoe@emory.edu
  • Ursula Kelly · 404-727-2715 · ukelly@emory.edu
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