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FAmily Engagement Strategy for Coordinated Specialty Care

Integration of a Culturally Responsive Family Peer Delivered Engagement Strategy in Coordinated Specialty Care

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
18 Years and older
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

  • Time periods mentioned: 30 months
  • Procedures mentioned: Interviews

Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.

Show the study's own words
  • "The FAMES condition will last for 30 months and will recruit 225 participant dyads during which time family member participants will receive a modified cultural formulation interview, brief check-ins, psychoeducation, and will have access to an online community."
Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

In plain language

This study tests FAMES, a way to help families and support people take part in team-based care for people in the early stages of psychosis. Psychosis can make it hard to tell what is real. Family peers will deliver FAMES, which aims to respect different cultures and reduce gaps in care.

Family members/support persons' engagement in mental health services has been linked to reduced burden and stress and improves engagement and outcomes in individuals in the early stages of psychosis. The goal of FAMES is to address low family member/support person engagement in services. FAMES will also address disparities in coordinated specialty care (CSC) by using a culturally responsive family engagement strategy to be delivered by family peers.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • Family members or support people must be age 18 or older.
  • They must support someone who has been in coordinated specialty care (team-based mental health care) for 6 months or less.
  • People receiving care must be age 15 or older.
  • People receiving care must have been in coordinated specialty care for 6 months or less.
  • People receiving care must have a family member or support person willing to join the study.
  • During the active FAMES period, participants must not have taken part in the study's attention control comparison group.

Who can't join

  • Family members, support people, and people receiving care cannot join if they do not understand the process of agreeing to take part.
  • They cannot join if they cannot speak and understand English or Spanish.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

Family Member / Support Person Inclusion Criteria: * Family member/support person of an individual enrolled in coordinated specialty care services for less than or equal to 6 months. * 18 years of age or older. * During the active implementation period (FAMES) did not participate in the attention control condition. Exclusion Criteria: * If they do not understand the consent process. * If they do not speak and/or understand English or Spanish. Primary Service User Inclusion Criteria * enrolled in coordinated specialty care services for less than or equal to 6 months. * 15 years of age or older. * Has a family member/support person willing to engage in the study. during the active implementation period (FAMES) did not participate in the attention control condition. Exclusion Criteria * if they do not understand the consent process * If they do not speak and/or understand English or Spanish

Study sites (4)

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