A Mental Health Services Engagement Program for Racial and Ethnic Minority Young Adults
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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: Just Do You, Component A, Component B, Component C.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Psychosis, Bipolar and Related Disorders, Depressive Disorder. Basic parameters: 18 years — 34 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
Adapting and Testing A Mental Health Services Engagement Program for Racial and Ethnic Minority Young Adults
Overview
Researchers aim to test a brief culturally-responsive young adult orientation program for community mental health services. They will conduct a 24-month randomized trial with 80 young adults from racial and ethnic minority groups in a community-based mental health clinic.
Detailed description
The study objective is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of three new culturally-responsive components added to the brief young adult engagement intervention called Just Do You. The new components incorporate techniques from the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) and creative arts therapy to increase culturally-responsive content in Just Do You, which demonstrated evidence of keeping young adults connected to their treatment in a prior trial. Components are designed to elicit relevant cultural characteristics, experiences, and perspectives of diverse young adults enrolled in psychiatric rehabilitation as part of the Just Do You orientation program. The investigators will examine whether the new culturally-responsive components improve engagement in mental health services and increase service utilization.
A total of 80 young adults enrolled in an outpatient psychiatric rehabilitation program in New York will be recruited over 24 months to take part in a randomized full factorial pilot trial. Participants will be given a baseline assessment and randomly assigned to one of eight combinations of intervention components. Just Do You will be delivered first to all participants, with the assigned combination of new components to follow. The intervention will be delivered at the psychiatric rehabilitation program and will last up to five weeks for each participant, depending on the experimental condition. Outcome measures will be assessed at baseline, post-intervention, and 3-month follow up.
Interventions
- Behavioral Just Do You
Just Do You Core Intervention utilizes creative arts and a provider team of a licensed clinician and professional peer to increase young adult engagement in adult outpatient mental health programs. Content addresses recovery, advantages of using mental health services, working with providers, stigma, and mental health literacy. - Behavioral Component A
Content addresses participant cultural identities and how they may be barriers and facilitators to on-going engagement with services. - Behavioral Component B
Content addresses identity-based motivations for on-going engagement with services and hope for the future. - Behavioral Component C
Content addresses community and environmental barriers and facilitators to on-going engagement with services and self-efficacy.
Primary outcome measures
- Participant acceptability questionnaire [Time frame: Immediately after the intervention]
- Qualitative interviews [Time frame: Immediately after the intervention]
- Intervention adherence [Time frame: Baseline through study completion, an average of 2 years; repeated measure to assess change through study completion]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Service utilization [Time frame: Assessed 3 months after baseline]
- Client Engagement in Child Protective Services Scale [Time frame: Assessed immediately after the intervention and 3 months after baseline]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Aged 18-34
- From groups other than non-Hispanic White
- Enrolled in services at the partnering clinic site
Exclusion criteria
- Cognitive impairments (i.e., young adult cannot understand consent process)
- Unable to comprehend and speak English
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Factorial
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- The Jewish Board — The Bronx
Publications
- Moore KL, Rodwin AH, Gwadz M, Chang DF, Collins LM, Munson MR. A Brief Engagement Intervention Adapted for Racial and Ethnic Minority Young Adults in Mental Health Services: Protocol for a Pilot Optimization Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Jun 17;14:e68885. doi: 10.2196/68885. PMID 40527500
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06508450 · K23MH132814