Boston Community Academic Mental Health Partnership

描述(由申请人提供)：虽然“在美国，致力于公共卫生目标的伙伴关系或合作方法的关注和资源急剧增加”，但这些努力中几乎没有关注于改善社区的心理健康。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卫生伙伴关系(B-GAMHP)。这一伙伴关系将消费者、家庭成员和以学术为基础的研究人员聚集在一起，开发基于社区的心理健康参与性行动研究。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，因为尽管波士顿有很多学术心理健康研究人员，但让消费者和家庭成员参与研究过程的渠道很少。我们的长期目标是建立一种机制，使社区成员能够告知和参与研究过程的各个方面；从问题产生到研究研究的设计和进行、结果的解释和传播。这项建议的具体目标是：1)发展B-CAMHP；2)就消费者对精神科急救护理的观点进行试点研究；以及3)为B-CAMHP确定和发展未来的研究建议和可持续性努力。在制定B-CAMHP的过程中，我们将定期举行合作伙伴会议，以便制定一项使命声明、业务准则，并阐明共同的长期目标。我们将探索扩大B-CAMHP的方法，增加更多的关键社区利益攸关方。我们将聘用和培训4-6名消费者研究助理，以参与B-CAMHP，进行访谈和数据分析，并在试点研究的各个方面开展工作。我们选择将这项提议的试点研究重点放在精神科紧急护理上。我们发现，缺乏消费者和社区的投入是精神科急救服务使用方面的研究和文献方面的一个重要差距。我们的初步研究设计包括使用训练有素的消费者访谈者对精神科紧急护理的使用者及其家人进行一系列30次访谈。这项提议为在现有合作和伙伴关系的基础上继续开展这项重要工作提供了一个独特的机会，也是在波士顿与严重精神疾病患者及其家属社区和学术界之间建立持续伙伴关系的关键一步。这些努力是实现所需变革的步骤，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。

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.