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Mendel P, O'Hora J, Zhang L, Stockdale S, Dixon EL, Gilmore J, Jones F, Jones A, Williams P, Sharif MZ, Masongsong Z, Kadkhoda F, Pulido E, Chung B, Wells KB. Engaging Community Networks to Improve Depression Services: A Cluster-Randomized Trial of a Community Engagement and Planning Intervention. Community Ment Health J 2021; 57:457-469. [PMID: 32430557 PMCID: PMC7906961 DOI: 10.1007/s10597-020-00632-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2019] [Accepted: 05/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Abstract
This paper explores the effects of a group-randomized controlled trial, Community Partners in Care (CPIC), on the development of interagency networks for collaborative depression care improvement between a community engagement and planning (CEP) intervention and a resources for services (RS) intervention that provided the same content solely via technical assistance to individual programs. Both interventions consisted of a diverse set of service agencies, including health, mental health, substance abuse treatment, social services, and community-trusted organizations such as churches and parks and recreation centers. Participants in the community councils for the CEP intervention reflected a range of agency leaders, staff, and other stakeholders. Network analysis of partnerships among agencies in the CEP versus RS condition, and qualitative analysis of perspectives on interagency network changes from multiple sources, suggested that agencies in the CEP intervention exhibited greater growth in partnership capacity among themselves than did RS agencies. CEP participants also viewed the coalition development intervention both as promoting collaboration in depression services and as a meaningful community capacity building activity. These descriptive results help to identify plausible mechanisms of action for the CPIC interventions and can be used to guide development of future community engagement interventions and evaluations in under-resourced communities.
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Affiliation(s)
- Peter Mendel
- RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90407, USA.
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- Center for Health Services and Society, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, USA
| | - Lily Zhang
- Center for Health Services and Society, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, USA
| | - Susan Stockdale
- Greater Los Angeles Veteran's Affairs, Los Angeles, USA
- Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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- Behavioral Health Services, Gardena, CA, USA
| | - Felica Jones
- Healthy African American Families II, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Andrea Jones
- Healthy African American Families II, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | | | - Mienah Zulfacar Sharif
- Centre for Social Research and Methods, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
| | - Zoe Masongsong
- Healthy African American Families II, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Health Services and Society, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, USA
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- RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90407, USA
- Center for Health Services and Society, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, USA
- Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
- Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Kenneth B Wells
- RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90407, USA
- Center for Health Services and Society, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, USA
- Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
- Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, USA
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