Housing Conditions: Evaluation, Advocacy and Research in Toronto Community Housing (HEARTH)

Unity Health Toronto

Status: Completed

Conditions: Housing

Treatments: Behavioral: Community Organizing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04131101

SMH-18-154

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project will examine whether a health promotion campaign using community organizing and joint advocacy by a coalition of tenants, health providers, social service agencies and advocates can lead to improvements in building conditions and health in social housing.

Full description

This community based participatory research project will bring together patients of the St. Michael's Hospital Academic Family Health Team (FHT) who are tenants of Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) with health providers, legal service staff at the Health Justice Program, social service agencies and advocacy organizations to advocate to improve building conditions in three TCHC buildings. The researchers will evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of this health promotion campaign as well as changes in the state of housing and self rated physical and mental health of tenants.

Enrollment: 53 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• Living in one of the three TCHC buildings

Exclusion criteria

• under 18 years old

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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53 participants in 1 patient group

Community Organizing

Experimental group

Description:

All tenants in three TCHC buildings will be invited to participate in a survey on their building conditions at baseline, 6 months and 12 months. Once baseline data collection is complete, there will be a community organizing campaign involving tenants to advocate for improved building conditions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Community Organizing