DECIDE to Improve Maternal Mental Health Care Delivery

Part of paid clinical trials in Piscataway, New Jersey.

Sponsor
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Study ID
NCT07098260
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Mental Health Disorders

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - 64 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • DECIDE for MOM Provider Training — BEHAVIORAL
    Participants will take an asynchronous online DECIDE for MOM provider training (approximately 2 hours). DECIDE stands for Decide the problem; Explore the questions; Closed or open-ended questions; Identify the who, why, or how of the problem; Direct questions to your health care professional; Enjoy a shared solution. The 5 modules will cover shared decision-making, perspective-taking, patient activation, attributional errors, and being a responsive provider to perinatal individuals.

Study Details

Appropriate training for perinatal mental health care is an important public health concern as mental health disorders are common pregnancy complications. Perinatal and mental health care providers report the difficulty of treating perinatal individuals due to insufficient information available regarding mental health treatment decisions, differences in beliefs and attitudes, and concerns about adverse effects on patients, such as self-harm and suicide. Effective shared decision-making skills can improve perinatal and mental health care providers' competencies to meet the unique decision needs of perinatal individuals, particularly those with mental health disorders. The proposed project titled "DECIDE to Improve Maternal Mental Health Care Delivery" aims to adapt the DECIDE Provider Training developed by Dr. Alegria and her team,1 to improve the rapid and wide dissemination and implementation of DECIDE in meeting the mental health needs of perinatal individuals. DECIDE stands for Decide the problem; Explore the questions; Closed or open-ended questions; Identify the who, why, or how of the problem; Direct questions to your health care professional; Enjoy a shared solution. The DECIDE provider training was developed based on theories of intergroup contact in social psychology and a patient-centered framework.28-30 DECIDE teaches mental health providers how to improve perspective-taking, reduce attributional errors, and increase receptivity to the client population.1,15-17 The proposed project will (1) make content adaptation (i.e., adding topical training content to fit perinatal mental health care) and process adaption (i.e., creating asynchronous training modules to reduce the burden for care providers) to the DECIDE Provider Training and (2) assess the acceptability, appropriateness, and usability of adapted DECIDE provider training for rapid and wide dissemination and implementation of DECIDE in maternal mental health care delivery.

Key Dates

Start date
Feb 14, 2025
Status verified
Oct 2025
Primary completion
Jun 30, 2026
Completion
Dec 31, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
35 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Arms

  • Experimental: Intervention Providers
    The intervention targets nurses, midwives, primary care doctors, social workers, psychologists, case managers, counselors, peer specialists, and other obstetrics and gynecology care providers who provide perinatal health, mental health and or behavioral health care in hospitals or other healthcare organizations (e.g., home visit programs, State Medical Assistance and health services programs, Federally Qualified Health Centers). These providers receive an asynchronous online training that teaches them to communicate more effectively with their perinatal mental health care patients in order to improve shared decision making.

Primary Outcome Measure

Acceptability, Feasibility, and Appropriateness Scale (AFAS) [ Time Frame: Immediately after and 1 month after the training ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyPiscatawayNew Jersey08854
Christina D Kang-Yi, Ph.D.
[email protected]
856-566-7091

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