A Family-Based Mental Health Navigator Intervention for Youth in the Child Welfare System : Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
©Marina Tolou-Shams, Megan Ramaiya, Jannet Lara Salas, Ifunanya Ezimora, Martha Shumway, Jill Duerr Berrick, Adrian Aguilera, Brian Borsari, Emily Dauria, Naomi Friedling, Crystal Holmes, Adam Grandi. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (https://www.researchprotocols.org), 12.09.2023..
BACKGROUND: Youth in the child welfare system (child welfare-involved [CWI] youth) have high documented rates of mental health symptoms and experience significant disparities in mental health care services access and engagement. Adolescence is a developmental stage that confers increased likelihood of experiencing mental health symptoms and the emergence of disorders that can persist into adulthood. Despite a high documented need for evidence-based mental health services for CWI youth, coordination between child welfare and mental health service systems to increase access to care remains inadequate, and engagement in mental health services is low. Navigator models developed in the health care field to address challenges of service access, fragmentation, and continuity that affect the quality of care provide a promising approach to increase linkage to, and engagement in, mental health services for CWI youth. However, at present, there is no empirically supported mental health navigator model to address the unique and complex mental health needs of CWI youth and their families.
OBJECTIVE: Using a randomized controlled trial, this study aims to develop and test a foster care family navigator (FCFN) model to improve mental health service outcomes for CWI adolescents (aged 12-17 years).
METHODS: The navigator model leverages an in-person navigator and use of adjunctive digital health technology to engage with, and improve, care coordination, tracking, and monitoring of mental health service needs for CWI youth and families. In total, 80 caregiver-youth dyads will be randomized to receive either the FCFN intervention or standard of care (clinical case management services): 40 (50%) to FCFN and 40 (50%) to control. Qualitative exit interviews will inform the feasibility and acceptability of the services received during the 6-month period. The primary trial outcomes are mental health treatment initiation and engagement. Other pre- and postservice outcomes, such as proportion screened and time to screening, will also be evaluated. We hypothesize that youth receiving the FCFN intervention will have higher rates of mental health treatment initiation and engagement than youth receiving standard of care.
RESULTS: We propose enrollment of 80 dyads by March 2024, final data collection by September 2024, and the publication of main findings in March 2025. After final data analysis and writing of the results, the resulting manuscripts will be submitted to journals for dissemination.
CONCLUSIONS: This study will be the first to produce empirically driven conclusions and recommendations for implementing a family mental health navigation model for CWI youth with long-standing and unaddressed disparities in behavioral health services access. The study findings have potential to have large-scale trial applicability and be feasible and acceptable for eventual system implementation and adoption.
TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04506437; https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04506437.
INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/49999.
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| 520 | |a BACKGROUND: Youth in the child welfare system (child welfare-involved [CWI] youth) have high documented rates of mental health symptoms and experience significant disparities in mental health care services access and engagement. Adolescence is a developmental stage that confers increased likelihood of experiencing mental health symptoms and the emergence of disorders that can persist into adulthood. Despite a high documented need for evidence-based mental health services for CWI youth, coordination between child welfare and mental health service systems to increase access to care remains inadequate, and engagement in mental health services is low. Navigator models developed in the health care field to address challenges of service access, fragmentation, and continuity that affect the quality of care provide a promising approach to increase linkage to, and engagement in, mental health services for CWI youth. However, at present, there is no empirically supported mental health navigator model to address the unique and complex mental health needs of CWI youth and their families | ||
| 520 | |a OBJECTIVE: Using a randomized controlled trial, this study aims to develop and test a foster care family navigator (FCFN) model to improve mental health service outcomes for CWI adolescents (aged 12-17 years) | ||
| 520 | |a METHODS: The navigator model leverages an in-person navigator and use of adjunctive digital health technology to engage with, and improve, care coordination, tracking, and monitoring of mental health service needs for CWI youth and families. In total, 80 caregiver-youth dyads will be randomized to receive either the FCFN intervention or standard of care (clinical case management services): 40 (50%) to FCFN and 40 (50%) to control. Qualitative exit interviews will inform the feasibility and acceptability of the services received during the 6-month period. The primary trial outcomes are mental health treatment initiation and engagement. Other pre- and postservice outcomes, such as proportion screened and time to screening, will also be evaluated. We hypothesize that youth receiving the FCFN intervention will have higher rates of mental health treatment initiation and engagement than youth receiving standard of care | ||
| 520 | |a RESULTS: We propose enrollment of 80 dyads by March 2024, final data collection by September 2024, and the publication of main findings in March 2025. After final data analysis and writing of the results, the resulting manuscripts will be submitted to journals for dissemination | ||
| 520 | |a CONCLUSIONS: This study will be the first to produce empirically driven conclusions and recommendations for implementing a family mental health navigation model for CWI youth with long-standing and unaddressed disparities in behavioral health services access. The study findings have potential to have large-scale trial applicability and be feasible and acceptable for eventual system implementation and adoption | ||
| 520 | |a TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04506437; https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04506437 | ||
| 520 | |a INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/49999 | ||
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