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The Right Question Project-Mental Health: An Intervention to Increase Engagement and Retention in Mental Health Care

NCT01226329 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 724

Last updated 2016-06-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The Right Question Project-Mental Health (RQP-MH) is a three-session health education intervention that teaches clients to participate effectively in mental health care. The methodology teaches clients to identify important issues of their illness or treatment, formulate questions, and devise plans to communicate and act in effective ways that address factors impacting their mental health care, with the expectation that this behavior will increase patient-provider communication and improve the therapeutic alliance between patient and provider.

The investigators hypothesize that participants receiving the intervention will be more likely to engage and remain in mental health care, and that they will report higher activation and self-management scores as compared to control patients.

Conditions

  • Mental Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Right Question Project - Mental Health (RQP-MH)

The RQP-MH trainings each take approximately 45 minutes to complete and are delivered approximately three weeks apart. The manualized intervention uses a Question Formulation Technique (QFT) and a Framework for Active Decision-Making (FADM). The QFT consists of asking patients to generate and revise questions to obtain more informative answers from their providers. The FADM teaches participants to identify questions that will help them consider their role in a decision, the process of decision-making, and the reasons behind a decision. All intervention sessions will be taught by a bachelors-level "Care Manager."

BEHAVIORAL

Pamphlet

Participants in this group receive a handout called "Managing Your Mental Health" (available in Spanish and English) that provides tips on how to manage mental health through the proper maintenance of physical health and stress.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Margarita Alegria, PhD · Cambridge Health Alliance

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-07-31
Primary Completion
2011-10-31
Completion
2011-10-31

Countries

  • United States
  • Puerto Rico

Study Locations

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