The UTHealth Medical-Legal Partnership: Improving Health by Addressing Health-Harming Legal Needs

The purpose of this study is to assess the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effectiveness of the UTHealth medical-legal partnerships (MLP) against usual care.

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Key information

Conditions

Social Determinants of Health

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

English- or Spanish- speaking
screen positive for health-harming legal needs (HHLNs)

Exclusion criteria

Those unable or unwilling to consent to legal services

Treatment and study plan

Access to the Medical-Legal Partnership Group

Other

The Medical-Legal Partnership Group are lawyers in clinics who address health-harming legal needs.

Access to social worker and a community worker

Other

Access to social worker and a community worker, but no systematic process for addressing health-harming legal needs.

Primary outcomes

Number of participants who had an emergency department visit

Time frame: 6 months

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2018
Primary completion: 2019
Study completion: 2019
First posted: Dec 6, 2017
Registry last updated: Nov 6, 2020

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