Adapting and Testing A Mental Health Services Engagement Program for Racial and Ethnic Minority Young Adults
New York University
Summary
Researchers aim to test a brief culturally-responsive young adult orientation program for community mental health services. They will conduct a 24-month randomized trial with 80 young adults from racial and ethnic minority groups in a community-based mental health clinic.
Description
The study objective is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of three new culturally-responsive components added to the brief young adult engagement intervention called Just Do You. The new components incorporate techniques from the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) and creative arts therapy to increase culturally-responsive content in Just Do You, which demonstrated evidence of keeping young adults connected to their treatment in a prior trial. Components are designed to elicit relevant cultural characteristics, experiences, and perspectives of diverse young adults enrolled in…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–34 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Aged 18-34 * From groups other than non-Hispanic White * Enrolled in services at the partnering clinic site Exclusion Criteria: * Cognitive impairments (i.e., young adult cannot understand consent process) * Unable to comprehend and speak English
Interventions
- BehavioralJust Do You
Just Do You Core Intervention utilizes creative arts and a provider team of a licensed clinician and professional peer to increase young adult engagement in adult outpatient mental health programs. Content addresses recovery, advantages of using mental health services, working with providers, stigma, and mental health literacy.
- BehavioralComponent A
Content addresses participant cultural identities and how they may be barriers and facilitators to on-going engagement with services.
- BehavioralComponent B
Content addresses identity-based motivations for on-going engagement with services and hope for the future.
- BehavioralComponent C
Content addresses community and environmental barriers and facilitators to on-going engagement with services and self-efficacy.
Location
- The Jewish BoardThe Bronx, New York