Family Mental Health Family Navigator Project (FMHN)
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Family-based mental health navigation.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Mental Health. Basic parameters: 6 years — 17 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Family Mental Health Family Navigator
Overview
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.
Interventions
- Behavioral Family-based mental health navigation
Family-based navigator intervention combined with mHealth practices to improve mental health treatment initiation and engagement
Primary outcome measures
- Time to treatment referral [Time frame: 12 months post enrollment]
- Time to treatment initiation [Time frame: 12 months post enrollment]
- Treatment engagement [Time frame: 12 months post enrollment]
Eligibility criteria
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
Exclusion criteria
- Youth is not English-speaking nor Spanish-speaking
- Caregiver has impairment that would preclude providing informed consent
- Unavailable guardian for consent
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital — San Francisco
Identifiers
NCT: NCT04822636 · 1929675