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Patient Navigators for Children's Community Mental Health Services in High Poverty Urban Communities

NCT05294042 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 154

Last updated 2025-02-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose is to study a model of mental health navigation for African American and Latinx children (0-14 years) in high poverty urban communities focused on reducing key parental attitudinal barriers to care. Reducing persistent racial and ethnic disparities in children's mental health is a national priority and patient navigation is a highly promising approach that is rarely used in children's mental health services. The study will examine the effectiveness of paraprofessional (PP) navigators who have strong community knowledge and waitlist as usual condition (active wailt list \[AWL\]. The study will examine specific mechanisms of navigator effectiveness in children's mental health and compare an AWL to provide a rigorous test of the proposed mechanisms. The knowledge gained from this application may be important to reducing disparities and employing the workforce best suited to navigation in the community mental health system. Two community boards, one focused on identifying factors important to supporting navigators at the agencies (Implementation and Sustainability Community Board) will meet quarterly, and the other focused on implications for state and federal policy (Public Policy Board), will meet annually.

Conditions

  • Community Mental Health Services

Interventions

OTHER

Navigation

The intervention in this study is a model of navigation for families seeking services at the two mental health agencies collaborating on this study. Navigators will implement a model of navigation with caregivers focused on reducing logistical and attitudinal barriers to care.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Illinois at Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tara Mehta, PhD · University of Illinois at Chicago

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-03-03
Primary Completion
2025-12-31
Completion
2026-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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