Launching the Houston Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program (Houston-HVIP): Developing and Evaluating a Hospital-Based Intervention to Reduce Recurrent Violence

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Firearm Injury

Treatments: Behavioral: Standard of Care; Behavioral: Houston-HVIP treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06263647

UH3NR021232 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

HSC-MS-23-0904

UG3NR021232 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

A prior violent injury is one of the strongest predictors of future violent injury, highlighting the importance of effective hospital-based interventions to prevent reinjury. This project will establish and evaluate the Houston Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program (Houston-HVIP). Using a randomized controlled trial, the study will assess the effectiveness of Houston-HVIP in reducing violent reinjury and improving behavioral, mental, and physical health outcomes over a 12-month follow-up period among those enrolled in the study in ages 16-35 years of age.

Enrollment: 274 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 35 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• presented for a gunshot injury stemming from community violence at Memorial Hermann Hospital
• English or Spanish-speaking
• provide informed voluntary consent to participate in the study
• live in Harris County at time of enrollment

Exclusion criteria

• presenting for a firearm injury arising from a self-inflicted gunshot or unintentional gun violence
• actively detained by criminal justice systems at time of enrollment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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274 participants in 2 patient groups

Houston-HVIP treatment group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Houston-HVIP treatment

Standard of Care group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard of Care