Clinical and Community Research
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Description:
This study, “Improving Contraceptive Decision Support for Individuals with Chronic Conditions,” evaluates a digital tool that provides personalized birth control education to help patients make informed decisions before clinical visits.
Eligibility:
The study is open to individuals with chronic health conditions who are considering starting, stopping or changing their birth control to prevent pregnancy.
Compensation: Participants may receive up to $100 for completing brief online surveys and an optional virtual interview.
Duration: TBD
Learn More: My Health, My Choice
Description: iTREAT is a study evaluating whether asthma symptom monitoring combined with individualized treatment (such as rescue inhaled corticosteroids and/or azithromycin) can reduce flare-ups, hospital visits and missed work or school.
Eligibility: Individuals ages 13–75 with an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) prescription who have had an asthma exacerbation in the past year requiring steroids or hospitalization may qualify.
Compensation: Participants receive $50 for the enrollment visit and $20 for surveys completed every 2 months throughout the study.
Duration: Participation lasts approximately 16 months with ongoing symptom tracking and periodic surveys.
Learn More: iTreatAsthma - Home
Description: Health Rewards is a study evaluating whether financial incentives may improve engagement with smoking cessation treatments.
Eligibility: Kansas Residents, aged 18+ who have smoked at least one cigarette in the past 30 days with access to a mobile phone may qualify.
Compensation: Participants assigned to the intervention group will receive a total of up to $349.90 by completing Quitline calls and taking varenicline according to the prescription. All participants will receive $30 for the baseline survey, $80 for an in-person assessment at 3 weeks, $100 for assessments at the end of treatment, and $50 for providing a salivary sample.
Duration: Participation lasts approximately 12 weeks with ongoing medication, Quitline calls, and periodic surveys.
Learn More: Link coming soon
Description: The Community Health Worker (CHW) Workforce Assessment is a statewide initiative to better understand the CHW workforce across Kansas. The assessment gathers information on workforce experiences, training needs, employment settings, and challenges to help strengthen CHW support, resources, and workforce planning.
Eligibility: Individuals who currently work as a CHW or in a related role (such as a health navigator, promotora de salud, community health representative, etc.) in Kansas may qualify.
Benefits: Information collected through the assessment will help strengthen workforce planning, identify training and professional development needs, improve CHW resources and support, and build stronger statewide CHW networks and partnerships.
Duration: The assessment takes approximately 10–15 minutes to complete and consists of a one-time survey.
Learn More: CHW Workforce Assessment