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Improving the Mental Health of Home Health Aides
Improving the Mental Health of Home Health Aides: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Who can join
Ages 18 and older · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome
Full eligibility criteria
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
About the study
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.
What is being tested
- Living Healthy educational program + peer coaching (behavioral)
- Living Healthy educational program (behavioral)
Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University · Participants: 100 · Started: Jan 27, 2025
Contact the study team
- Madeline R Sterling, MD, MPH, MS · Phone: 6469625029
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06071221
Locations in the U.S.
| New York | 1199 SEIU Home Care Industry Education Fund, New York Weill Cornell Medicine, New York |
Conditions
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.