| Culturally Sensitive Depression Care Management
Project Description
Research has shown that in comparison to non-Latino Whites, Latinos receive less treatment and have poorer treatment outcomes for depression. This randomized controlled trial addresses these disparities by evaluating bicultural, bilingual depression care management for low to moderate income Latinos who are beginning depression treatment through their primary care provider. The participants will have recently begun antidepressant treatment and receive either: 1) a 12-week, culturally appropriate, telephone-based depression care management program, in addition to treatment as usual or 2) Treatment as usual. This project will demonstrate feasibility and acceptability of the proposed intervention and study design, and will gain an estimate of effect size. This is a collaboration among Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, Beacon Health Strategies, and Butler Hospital/Brown University. Most of the Latino study population will come from a network of 11 community health centers. This project has the unique strength of being relevant for health plans and also feasible for a geographically disparate network of patients.
Principal Investigators:
Beth Marootian, MPH
Ivan Miller, PhD
Lisa Uebelacker, PhD
Partnering Organizations
Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island (Lead Organization)
Butler Hosptial
In the News
Focus groups that were conducted as part of the program evaluation were highlighted in a story on the local Rhode Island NPR affiliate, WRNI. This story is part on an ongoing series, One Square Mile, that devotes an entire week of programming to one square mile of Rhode Island. This segment focuses on the availability of mental health services for the Latino immigrants in Central Falls (a city near Providence, Rhode Island).
Listen to the Story
For More Information
Please Contact:
Beth Ann Marootian, MPH
bmarootian@nhpri.org
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