Boston Community Academic Mental Health Partnership

波士顿社区学术心理健康合作伙伴

• 批准号: 7230055
• 负责人: DEBORAH J. BOWEN
• 金额: $ 20.5万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2008-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7230055
• 关键词: Action Research; Adult; Advocate; Area; Attention; Boston; Child Mental Disorders; Collaborations; Communities; Data Analyses; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Emergency Care; Emotional Disturbance; Employee Strikes; Family; Family member; Funding; Future; Generations; Goals; Guidelines; Health Services Research; Interview; Interviewer; Knowledge; Literature; Massachusetts; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Mission; Pilot Projects; Policies; Process; Psychiatric Emergency Services; Public Health; Public Health Schools; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Proposals; Resources; Seeds; Series; Training; Translating; Universities; Urination; Work; base; care systems; community based participatory research; design; improved; member; research study; severe mental illness

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): While there has been "a dramatic increase in the attention and resources devoted to partnership or collaborative approaches to public health goals in the US," few of these efforts have focused on improving the mental health of communities. In this proposal we are seeking funds to establish the Boston Community Academic Mental Health Partnership (B-GAMHP). This partnership brings together consumers, family members and academic based researchers to develop community based participatory action research in mental health. We have defined our community as adults struggling with severe and persistent mental disorders (SPMI) and children struggling with severe emotional disturbance (SED) in Boston. This is an area of critical importance for while there are many academic mental health researchers in Boston, few avenues exist for consumers and family members to be a significant part of the research process. Our long term goal is to create a mechanism through which community members can inform and participate in all aspects of the research process; from question generation, to the design and conduct of research studies, the interpretation of results, and dissemination. The specific aims of this proposal are: 1) to develop the B-CAMHP; 2) to conduct a pilot study of consumer perspectives of psychiatric emergency care; and 3) to identify and develop future research proposals and sustainability efforts for the B-CAMHP. In developing the B-CAMHP we will hold regular meetings of the partners in order to develop a mission statement, operating guidelines, and to articulate shared common long-term goals. We will explore ways to expand the B-CAMHP with additional key community stakeholders. We will hire and train 4-6 consumer research assistants to participate in the B-CAMHP, conduct interviews and data analysis, and work on all aspects of the pilot study. We have chosen to focus the pilot study for this proposal on psychiatric emergency care. We have identified the lack of consumer and community input as an important gap in the research and literature on the use of psychiatric emergency services. Our preliminary study design involves the use of trained consumer interviewers to conduct a series of 30 interviews with users of psychiatric emergency care and their families. This proposal presents a unique opportunity to facilitate the continuation of this important work based on existing collaborations and partnerships and is a critical step in establishing the ongoing partnership between the community of people struggling with severe mental illness and their families, and the academic community in Boston. These efforts are steps towards achieving the change needed to expanding our knowledge to better inform the development a system of care that best meets the needs of consumers, their family members and other stakeholders.

描述（由申请人提供）：虽然“美国对公共卫生目标的伙伴关系或协作方法的关注和资源急剧增加”，但这些努力很少集中在改善社区的心理健康上。在这项提案中，我们正在寻求资金，以建立波士顿社区学术精神健康伙伴关系（B-GAMHP）。这种伙伴关系将消费者、家庭成员和学术研究人员聚集在一起，以发展基于社区的参与性心理健康行动研究。我们将我们的社区定义为在波士顿与严重和持续性精神障碍（SPMI）作斗争的成年人和与严重情绪障碍（SED）作斗争的儿童。这是一个至关重要的领域，因为虽然波士顿有许多学术心理健康研究人员，但消费者和家庭成员很少有途径成为研究过程的重要组成部分。我们的长期目标是创建一个机制，通过该机制，社区成员可以告知和参与研究过程的各个方面;从问题生成，到研究的设计和进行，结果的解释和传播。该提案的具体目标是：1）开发B-CAMHP; 2）进行精神病紧急护理消费者观点的试点研究;以及3）确定和开发未来的研究提案和B-CAMHP的可持续性工作。在开发B-CAMHP的过程中，我们将定期召开合作伙伴会议，以制定使命声明、操作指南，并阐明共同的长期目标。我们将与其他主要社区利益相关者探讨如何扩大B-CAMHP。我们将聘请和培训4-6名消费者研究助理参与B-CAMHP，进行访谈和数据分析，并参与试点研究的各个方面。我们已选择把这项建议的先导研究集中在精神科紧急护理方面。我们已经确定，缺乏消费者和社区的投入作为一个重要的差距，在研究和文献上使用精神病紧急服务。我们的初步研究设计涉及使用训练有素的消费者访谈者进行了一系列的30个精神病紧急护理的用户和他们的家人采访。这项提案提供了一个独特的机会，以促进在现有合作和伙伴关系的基础上继续开展这项重要工作，是在与严重精神疾病作斗争的人及其家人的社区与波士顿学术界之间建立持续伙伴关系的关键一步。这些努力是实现必要变革的步骤，以扩大我们的知识，更好地为发展一个最能满足消费者、其家庭成员和其他利益攸关方需求的护理系统提供信息。