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

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Conditions studied: Mental Disorders

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01226329

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

724

Starts

2008-07-01

Expected to finish

2011-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-06-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• between ages of 18 and 70 (patients above age 65 will be administered the Mini-Cog, a cognitive impairment screener)
• speak English and/or Spanish
• currently receiving outpatient mental health care

You may not qualify if…

• suicidal ideation or attempt within the past four weeks
• lacks capacity to consent (adapted from Zayas, Cabassa, \& Perez, 2005)
• only receiving services that are strictly case-management

Where it is running

• Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Martha Eliot Health Center — Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States
• Cambridge Health Alliance (Malden Family Medicine Center) — Malden, Massachusetts, United States
• Cambridge Health Alliance (Central Street Health Center) — Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
• Edward M Kennedy Health Center (Great Brook Valley Health Center) — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• Community-University Health Care Center — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• Hamm Memorial Psychiatric Clinic — Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
• West Side Community Health Services - La Clinica — Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
• University Behavioral Healthcare — New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
• Columbia University Medical Center, Outpatient Psychiatry Program — New York, New York, United States
• El Futuro Clinic, Carrboro site — Carrboro, North Carolina, United States
• El Futuro Clinic, Durham site — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Clinica de Salud Mental de la Comunidad Universidad Carlos Albizu — San Juan, Puerto Rico

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