Citation

Ong MK, Jones L, Aoki W, Belin TR, Bromley E, Chung B, Dixon E, Johnson MD, Jones F, Koegel P, Khodyakov D, Landry CM, Lizaola E, Mtume N, Ngo VK, Perlman J, Pulido E, Sauer V, Sherbourne CD, Tang L, Vidaurri E, Whittington Y, Williams P, Lucas-Wright A, Zhang L, Southard M, Miranda J, Wells K. Psychiatr. Serv. 2017; 68(12): 1262-1270.

Affiliation

Dr. Ong is with the Department of Medicine; Dr. Belin is with the Department of Biostatistics; Dr. Bromley, Dr. Landry, Ms. Lizaola, Ms. Williams, Ms. Zhang, Dr. Miranda, and Dr. Wells are with the Center for Health Services and Society, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine; Dr. Chung and Dr. Tang are with the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine; and Dr. Dixon is with the School of Nursing, all at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles. Dr. Ong is also with the Department of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles. Dr. Bromley is also with the Desert Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, West Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, Los Angeles. Ms. Williams is also with Healthy African American Families II, Los Angeles, where Dr. Jones and Ms. Jones are affiliated. Dr. Wells is also with RAND Health, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, where Dr. Koegel, Dr. Khodyakov, Dr. Ngo, Ms. Perlman, and Dr. Sherbourne are affiliated. Dr. Aoki is with Los Angeles Christian Health Centers, Los Angeles. Dr. Johnson is with the Department of Psychiatry, Kaiser Permanente of Southern California, Los Angeles. Ms. Mtume is with Shields for Families, Los Angeles. Ms. Pulido is with L.A. Care Health Plan, Los Angeles. Ms. Sauer is with Jewish Family Services of Los Angeles, Los Angeles. Mr. Vidaurri and Ms. Whittington are with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Los Angeles. Ms. Lucas-Wright is with the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, both in Los Angeles. Dr. Southard is with the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

10.1176/appi.ps.201600488

PMID

28712349

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Community Partners in Care, a community-partnered, cluster-randomized trial with depressed clients from 93 Los Angeles health and community programs, examined the added value of a community coalition approach (Community Engagement and Planning [CEP]) versus individual program technical assistance (Resources for Services [RS]) for implementing depression quality improvement in underserved communities. CEP was more effective than RS in improving mental health-related quality of life, reducing behavioral health hospitalizations, and shifting services toward community-based programs at six months. At 12 months, continued evidence of improvement was found. This study examined three-year outcomes.

METHODS: Among 1,004 participants with depression who were eligible for three-year follow-up, 600 participants from 89 programs completed surveys. Multiple regression analyses estimated intervention effects on poor mental health-related quality of life and depression, physical health-related quality of life, behavioral health hospital nights, and use of services.

RESULTS: At three years, no differences were found in the effects of CEP versus RS on depression or mental health-related quality of life, but CEP had modest effects in improving physical health-related quality of life and reducing behavioral health hospital nights, and CEP participants had more social- and community-sector depression visits and greater use of mood stabilizers. Sensitivity analyses with longitudinal modeling reproduced these findings but found no significant differences between groups in change from baseline to three years.

CONCLUSIONS: At three years, CEP and RS did not have differential effects on primary mental health outcomes, but CEP participants had modest improvements in physical health and fewer behavioral health hospital nights.

Language: en