TeamSTEPPS in School Mental Health

NCT ID: NCT04440228

Last Updated: 2025-11-12

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 90 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-05-23
• Study Completion Date: 2024-04-30

Brief Summary

Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) is an evidence-based approach for teams that can be adapted for school mental health. TeamSTEPPS has been widely disseminated in health care settings with promising outcomes. TeamSTEPPS is designed to build competencies in the areas of leadership, situation monitoring, mutual support, and communication and has been associated with improvements in teamwork and communication as well as patient outcomes, such as decreased seclusion in psychiatric hospitals. This approach has yet to be extended as an implementation strategy in school or community mental health teams. If an evidence-based team approach like TeamSTEPPS can be successfully applied to school mental health teams, it could provide a cost-effective strategy for improving student mental health services and bolstering existing EBP implementation efforts, which to date generally have been insufficient in producing long-term clinician behavior change. In Aim 1 the investigators will capture key stakeholder perspectives about challenges in collocated school mental health services through formative work to inform collaborative planning and capacity building activities in Aim 2. Then, in Aim 2 the investigators will identify inter-organizational challenges and required components of TeamSTEPPS to adapt. The investigators will establish an advisory board and adapt TeamSTEPPS. The product of Aim 2 will be an adapted TeamSTEPPS, directed toward both school mental health and school-employed personnel, and specific, tailored implementation strategies to improve services in schools in conjunction with TeamSTEPPS. Finally, In Aim 3 the investigators will explore the feasibility, acceptability, and utility of TeamSTEPPS and the strategies generated in Aim 2 on inter-professional collaboration, teamwork, and student outcomes in eight schools.

Conditions

Child Behavior Problem; Multidisciplinary Communication; Interprofessional Relations

Keywords

school-based mental health; TeamSTEPPS

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Schools implementing TeamSTEPPS

Select schools will take a participatory approach to collaboratively identify solutions to challenges in collocated school-based mental health services based upon the feedback of stakeholders and use TeamSTEPPS to support mental health team-school collaboration.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

TeamSTEPPS

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based approach for teams that can be adapted for school mental health.

Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS), has been widely disseminated in health care settings with promising outcomes. TeamSTEPPS is designed to build competencies in the areas of leadership, situation monitoring, mutual support, and communication and has been associated with improvements in teamwork and communication as well as patient outcomes, such as decreased seclusion in psychiatric hospitals.

Interventions

TeamSTEPPS

TeamSTEPPS is an evidence-based approach for teams that can be adapted for school mental health.

Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS), has been widely disseminated in health care settings with promising outcomes. TeamSTEPPS is designed to build competencies in the areas of leadership, situation monitoring, mutual support, and communication and has been associated with improvements in teamwork and communication as well as patient outcomes, such as decreased seclusion in psychiatric hospitals.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Must be one of the following: mental health providers, teachers, leaders from schools (e.g., principals), leaders from community mental health agencies (i.e., executive directors, clinical supervisors), and leadership personnel from the payer or partner school district.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 100 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Pennsylvania

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Courtney Benjamin Wolk, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Pennsylvania

Locations

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Countries

United States

References

Kuriyan A, Kinkler G, Cidav Z, Kang-Yi C, Eiraldi R, Salas E, Wolk CB. Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) to Improve Collaboration in School Mental Health: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2021 Feb 8;10(2):e26567. doi: 10.2196/26567.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 33555258 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

834488

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id