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Sisters for Heart Health: A Community Health Worker Initiative for Improving Heart Health in Farmworker Women
Who can join
Ages 18 to 50 · Women · Healthy volunteers welcome
Full eligibility criteria
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.
About the study
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.
What is being tested
- Sisters for Heart Health (behavioral)
- Basic intervention (behavioral)
Sponsor: Emory University · Participants: 269 · Started: Sep 16, 2025
Contact the study team
- Erin Ferranti, PhD · Phone: 404-712-9551
- Ursula Kelly · Phone: 404-727-2715
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07111026
Locations in the U.S.
| Georgia | Southern GA - Colquitt County, Ellenton |
Conditions
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.