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NCT06136260
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The Grief Navigation Trial: A Comparison of Two Interventions to Support Parents After Their Child's Unexpected or Traumatic Death

Sponsor: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

View on ClinicalTrials.gov

Summary

Parents of children who die traumatically or unexpectedly from things like suicide or an overdose suffer from mental and physical health problems and can experience massive disruptions in their family life. For about half of these parents, the first, and sometimes only, interactions they have with the healthcare system when their child dies are with a medical examiner or coroner (hereafter 'ME'). But MEs have little to no training in helping grieving families, and there are no standards guiding medical examiners or coroners on how or even if they should help grieving families. This gap leaves parents to find the help they need on their own. This research will test two different strategies for addressing this gap in the healthcare system.

Official title: The Grief Navigation Trial: A Multi-Site Pragmatic Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Interventions to Support Parents After Their Child's Unexpected or Traumatic Death

Key Details

Gender

All

Age Range

18 Years - Any

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

2000

Start Date

2024-03-04

Completion Date

2028-02

Last Updated

2025-05-01

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

CommunityRx-Bereavement

The medical examiner or coroner will refer parents to an organization called Missing Pieces. Missing Pieces does not deliver healthcare services to grieving families; rather, Missing Pieces helps families find grief services in their community. For CRx-B, a Grief Navigator from Missing Pieces will text and/or call the parent after receiving the referral; share information about grief and support resources; learn what resources the parent needs for themselves and their family; send the parent a personalized list of grief and social support community resources called a HealtheRx via text, email, or mail; and plan future text message communications with bidirectional functionality and, if requested, subsequent calls or texts from the Grief Navigator to occur at least 3, 6, and 12 months after the child's death.

OTHER

General Bereavement Support Information

The medical examiner or coroner will refer parents to an organization called Missing Pieces. Missing Pieces does not deliver healthcare services to grieving families; rather, Missing Pieces helps families find grief services in their community. For GBSI, Missing Pieces sends parents a unidirectional text message providing a link to a webpage with a general list of grief resources (e.g., support groups) and information about grief and bereavement within two weeks of the child's death and again 3, 6, and 12 months after the child's death.

Locations (7)

Cook County Medical Examiner's Office

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Will County Coroner's Office

Joliet, Illinois, United States

Peoria County Coroner's Office

Peoria, Illinois, United States

Kane County Coroner's Office

Saint Charles, Illinois, United States

Lake County Coroner's Office

Waukegan, Illinois, United States

DuPage County Coroner's Office

Wheaton, Illinois, United States

McHenry County Coroner's Office

Woodstock, Illinois, United States