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

Purpose

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

Condition

  • Social Determinants of Health

Eligibility

Eligible Ages
Over 18 Years
Eligible Genders
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes

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

Study Design

Phase
Study Type
Observational
Observational Model
Cohort
Time Perspective
Prospective

Arm Groups

ArmDescriptionAssigned Intervention
Medical-Legal Partnership Group The Medical-Legal Partnership Group are lawyers in clinics who address health-harming legal needs. This group will also have access to access to a social worker and a community worker.
  • Other: Access to the Medical-Legal Partnership Group
    The Medical-Legal Partnership Group are lawyers in clinics who address health-harming legal needs.
  • Other: Access to social worker and a community worker
    Access to social worker and a community worker, but no systematic process for addressing health-harming legal needs.
Usual Care Access to a social worker and a community worker, but no systematic process for addressing health-harming legal needs.
  • Other: Access to social worker and a community worker
    Access to social worker and a community worker, but no systematic process for addressing health-harming legal needs.

More Details

Status
Completed
Sponsor
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Study Contact