Family Mental Health Family Navigator
University of California, San Francisco
Summary
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.
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-…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 6–17 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
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
Interventions
- BehavioralFamily-based mental health navigation
Family-based navigator intervention combined with mHealth practices to improve mental health treatment initiation and engagement
Location
- UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General HospitalSan Francisco, California