Improving depression care for adults with serious mental illness in underresourced areas: Community coalitions versus technical support
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Castillo, EG, Shaner, R, Tang, L et al. (2018). Improving depression care for adults with serious mental illness in underresourced areas: Community coalitions versus technical support
. PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES, 69(2), 195-203. 10.1176/appi.ps.201600514
Castillo, EG, Shaner, R, Tang, L et al. (2018). Improving depression care for adults with serious mental illness in underresourced areas: Community coalitions versus technical support
. PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES, 69(2), 195-203. 10.1176/appi.ps.201600514
Objective: Community Partners in Care (CPIC) was a grouprandomized study of two approaches to implementing expanded collaborative depression care: Community Engagement and Planning (CEP), a coalition approach, and Resources for Services (RS), a technical assistance approach. Collaborative care networks in both arms involved health care and other agencies in five service sectors. This study examined six- and 12-month outcomes for CPIC participants with serious mental illness. Methods: This secondary analysis focused on low-income CPIC participants from racial-ethnicminority groups with serious mental illness in underresourced Los Angeles communities (N=504). Serious mental illness was defined as selfreported severe depression (≥20 on the Patient Health Questionnaire-8) at baseline or a lifetime history of bipolar disorder or psychosis. Logistic and Poisson regression with multiple imputation and response weights, controlling for covariates, was used to model intervention effects. Results: Among CPIC participants, 50% had serious mental illness. Among those with serious mental illness, CEP relative to RS reduced the likelihood of poor mental health-related quality of life (OR=.62, 95% CI=.41-.95) but not depression (primary outcomes); reduced the likelihood of having homelessness risk factors and behavioral health hospitalizations; increased the likelihood of mental wellness; reduced specialty mental health medication and counseling visits; and increased faith-based depression visits (each p,.05) at sixmonths. There were no statistically significant 12-month effects. Conclusions: Findings suggest that a coalition approach to implementing expanded collaborative depression care, compared with technical assistance to individual programs, may reduce short-term behavioral health hospitalizations and improve mental health-related quality of life and some social outcomes for adults with serious mental illness, although no evidence was found for long-term effects in this subsample.
