Collaborative planning approach to inform the implementation of a healthcare manager intervention for hispanics with serious mental illness: a study protocol

Background: This study describes a collaborative planning approach that blends principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and intervention mapping to modify a healthcare manager intervention to a new patient population and provider group and to assess the feasibility and acceptability of this modified intervention to improve the physical health of Hispanics with serious mental illness (SMI) and at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Methods: The proposed study uses a multiphase approach that applies CBPR principles and intervention-mapping steps--an intervention-planning approach--to move from intervention planning to pilot testing. In phase I, a community advisory board composed of researchers and stakeholders will be assembled to learn and review the intervention and make initial modifications. Phase II uses a combination of qualitative methods--patient focus groups and stakeholder interviews--to ensure that the modifications are acceptable to all stakeholders. Phase III uses results from phase II to further modify the intervention, develop an implementation plan, and train two care managers on the modified intervention. Phase IV consists of a 12-month open pilot study (N = 30) to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the modified intervention and explore its initial effects. Lastly, phase V consists of analysis of pilot study data and preparation for future funding to develop a more rigorous evaluation of the modified intervention. Discussion: The proposed study is one of the few projects to date to focus on improving the physical health of Hispanics with SMI and at risk for CVD by using a collaborative planning approach to enhance the transportability and use of a promising healthcare manager intervention. This study illustrates how blending health-disparities research and implementation science can help reduce the disproportionate burden of medical illness in a vulnerable population

Psychiatric quarterly.

Title from cover.Psychological abstractsIndex medicusCumulative index to nursing & allied health literatureBiological abstractsExcerpta medica.Publication suspended with vol. 48, no. 4 (1974)Mode of access: Internet.Imprint varies: 1927-1974, New York State Dept. of Mental Hygiene; - , Human Sciences Press.Official organ of the New York State Dept. of Mental Hygiene

Annual report.

Vol. for 1926/27-1954/55 called also 39th-67th.Report year ends June 30.Mode of access: Internet.Thirty-ninth annual report, 1926/27, covers the operations of the State Hospital Commission and the State Commission for Mental Defectives for the period from July 1 to Dec. 31, 1927 and those of the Department of Mental Hygiene for the period from Jan. 1 to June 30, 1927.Continuation of the reports of the State Hospital Commission and the State Commission for Mental Defectives