Family Mental Health Family Navigator Project (FMHN)

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Mental Health
• Interventions: Behavioral: Family-based mental health navigation

• Registration Number: NCT04822636
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco

Brief Summary

This study will focus on developing and testing a family-based mental health navigator intervention, the Family Mental Health Navigator (FMHN), to evaluate whether the intervention combined with mHealth is preliminary efficacious in improving mental health service initiation and engagement for publicly-insured youth.

Detailed Description

The study will demonstrate how a family-based navigator intervention combined with mHealth may lead to improved mental health treatment initiation and engagement among publicly-insured youth. Publicly-insured youth have high rates of mental health symptoms relative to youth in the community, and are disproportionately racial and ethnic minorities, only perpetuating disparities in this population's mental health access and engagement. The proposed project will develop and test a family-based navigator intervention, the Family Mental Health Navigator (FMHN), a natural fit for improving publicly-insured youth's mental health service and clinical outcomes. The study will start with identifying the feasibility and acceptability of the FMHN intervention. Then, the study will determine whether the FMHN intervention improves publicly-insured youth mental health treatment initiation and engagement. Finally, the study will characterize patterns of pre- and post-service outcomes along the behavioral health services cascade of care, to further evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of the FMHN model.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-03-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-03-25
• Study First Posted: 2021-03-30
• Study Start: 2022-06-06
• Status Verified: 2023-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-05-10
• Last Update Posted: 2023-05-12
• Primary Completion: 2024-12-31
• Study Completion: 2024-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

• English-speaking and/or Spanish-speaking youth
• Ages 6-17
• Are currently receiving services at the San Francisco General Hospital
• Are publicly insured
• Have an involved caregiver/legal guardian for consent
• Family has mobile phone access

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Exclusion Criteria

• Youth is not English-speaking nor Spanish-speaking
• Caregiver has impairment that would preclude providing informed consent
• Unavailable guardian for consent

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Family-based mental health navigation	Family-based mental health navigation	Family-based navigator intervention combined with mHealth practices to improve mental health treatment initiation and engagement

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Treatment engagement	12 months post enrollment	Engagement as measured by attendance in treatment for 6 or more weeks
Time to treatment referral	12 months post enrollment	Number of days until treatment referral is made
Time to treatment initiation	12 months post enrollment	Number of days until attendance at first treatment session

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States