Home    Contact Us   Join Our E-Mail List    Site Map    Grantee Login

Search

 

About us Interventions Apply Tools & Resources News & Events Publications

   
Interventions > Round 1 Grantees > Culturally Sensitive Depression Care Management

 Print

 
 
Round 1 Grantees
Multimedia Outreach to Achieve Hypertension Control
Clinical Screening of Patients’ Health Literacy to Improve Quality
Community Health Workers to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes
The Expanded Chronic Care Model: Targeting Disparities in Diabetes Care
Improved Cultural Competence in Health Communications
Culturally Sensitive Depression Care Management
Depression-Specific Treatments for Patients Seeking Care within a Public Emergency Department
Identifying and Treating Maternal Depression in a Pediatric Primary Care Setting
Redesigning Clinic Operations to Improve Depression Care
Coached Care for Diabetes
Concurrent Peer Review to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Minority Patients
Round 2 Grantees
Round 3 Grantees
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

 

 

About Us  |  Apply  |  Grantees  |  News & Events  |  Tools & Resources 
Contact Us  |  Join Our E-Mail List  | Site Map  |  Privacy Policy  |  Home    Copyright 2007