A Mental Health Services Engagement Program for Racial and Ethnic Minority Young Adults

Conditions studied

Psychosis, Bipolar and Related Disorders, Depressive Disorder

About this study

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.

Interventions

• Behavioral: Just 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.
• Behavioral: Component A — Content addresses participant cultural identities and how they may be barriers and facilitators to on-going engagement with services.
• Behavioral: Component B — Content addresses identity-based motivations for on-going engagement with services and hope for the future.
• Behavioral: Component C — Content addresses community and environmental barriers and facilitators to on-going engagement with services and self-efficacy.

Primary outcomes

• Participant acceptability questionnaire (Immediately after the intervention)
• Qualitative interviews (Immediately after the intervention)
• Intervention adherence (Baseline through study completion, an average of 2 years; repeated measure to assess change through study completion)