| Engaging the Community to Improve Depression Outcomes
Who is the intervention targeting?
Underserved African American and Latino communities
What intervention is being evaluated?
A community engagement approach to improve depression management skills and adoption of evidence based depression quality improvement programs among health providers, such as physicians, nurses, and case workers.
Where is this intervention taking place?
Two underserved communities of color in Los Angeles (South Los Angeles and Hollywood)
Partnering Organizations
University of California-Los Angeles (Lead Organization)
Healthy African American Families
QueensCare Health and Faith-based Partnerships
Los Angeles Urban League
RAND
University of Southern California
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
Why might this approach work?
In order to improve depression care in underserved communities, effective interventions are needed at three levels: evidence-based treatments, QI strategies, and community based implementation strategies that can be applied across the diverse services agencies supporting underserved clients. Community engagement promotes organizational and community member participation and leadership in goal setting, program development and implementation, and evaluation by shifting the authority for action to the community.
How will this intervention be evaluated?
This project, Providers And Community Engagement: Recovery from Depression (PACE:RD), augments a group-level randomized control trial, Community Partners in Care, that is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a community-engagement intervention. PACE: RD will conduct a provider and administrator follow-up survey and collect qualitative implementation data to:
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Evaluate the effect of an innovative community engagement implementation intervention, versus standard expert consultation on depression toolkits and provider depression management skills.
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Evaluate the effect of differences in provider depression management skills on patient depression outcomes.
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Identify facilitators and barriers that lead to differential uptake of the intervention by providers.
Principal Investigator:
Michael Ong, MD
For More Information
Please Contact:
Michael Ong, MD
MOng@mednet.ucla.edu
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