Reducing Unmet Mental Health Need of African-American Children

Status Enrolling by invitation

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare two versions of school-based mental health screening to improve the receipt of mental health services among elementary school students.

Clinical Trial Description

School-based mental health (SBMH) is a critical pathway for accessing mental health services for African American/Black (AAB) youth who experience the greatest gap in unmet mental health need in comparison to their White, non-Hispanic peers, but are twice as likely to access mental health services in schools as outpatient or specialty clinics. Unfortunately, AAB children's access to SBMH is dependent on school intervention team decision making, which often involves consideration of factors other than student need. School personnel on intervention teams disproportionately attribute AAB youth's behavior problems as disciplinary issues rather than mental health needs, reducing the likelihood AAB students receive SBMH services. Consistent with the empirical literature, patient families and stakeholders recommend universal mental health screening to better identify AAB children with mental health needs and enhancements to address unintentional racial biases and poor mental health literacy of school personnel making intervention referral decisions. Thus, we will evaluate the comparative effectiveness of the SBMH delivery system enhanced with screening to a package of enhancements implemented with screening in SBMH to increase the likelihood AAB students receive the services they critically need. The enhancements include three components: (1) unintentional racial bias training and (2) mental health literacy training for voluntary school team members, and (3) a refinement to school teams' data-based decision-making process in which they also voluntarily review screening, mental referral/receipt, and discipline data disaggregated by race/ethnicity to identify and problem solve system-level inequities. We will test both whether and how (i.e., mediational analyses of causal pathway including knowledge, attitudinal, and behavioral observation of unintentional bias and mental health literacy) these enhancements impact student-level intervention and disciplinary referral outcomes. In a mixed method process evaluation and comparative analysis, we will also examine school-level contextual factors (i.e., team member tenure, pre-intervention discipline rates, racial/ethnic and socioeconomic composition of student body, and perceptions of intervention impact and acceptability) and implementation outcomes (i.e., fidelity, dosage/exposure, and reach). ;

Study Design

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Mental Health

Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT05450094
Study type	Interventional
Source	University of Florida
Contact
Status	Enrolling by invitation
Phase	N/A
Start date	November 1, 2022
Completion date	February 28, 2027

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