Family Mental Health Family Navigator Project (FMHN)

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Mental Health

Treatments: Behavioral: Family-based mental health navigation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04822636

1929675

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 1 patient group

Family-based mental health navigation

Experimental group

Description:

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

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family-based mental health navigation