Engaging Pacific Islander Perspectives on Mental Illness and Mental Health Services

Sponsor

University of California, Riverside (Other)

Overall Status

Withdrawn

CT.gov ID

NCT03236766

Collaborator

(none)

Enrollment

Arm

17.9

Actual Duration (Months)

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This study will enroll 100 Samoan and 100 Marshallese adults to discuss mental health, mental disorders, and approaches for engaging Pacific Islander adults with mental illness into mental health services.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Mental Disorder	Other: Citizens' panels	N/A

Detailed Description

Despite enduring high mental health burden, Pacific Islanders have received minimal research or clinical attention in the US. Due to our poor understanding of the issues surrounding Pacific Islander mental health, engaging Pacific Islanders in mental health services has been very difficult.

This study draws from the Cultural Determinants of Help-Seeking Model to address this research and clinical gap by conducting focus groups and citizens' panels to obtain public input from 50 Samoans in LAC and 50 Marshallese in Arkansas on their unique mental health perspectives, needs, barriers and facilitators to services, and strategies to overcome these barriers. The citizens' panels will bring together lay public members, present multiple viewpoints about various mental health issues, and have members deliberate and reach a collective decision on these issues. All group materials will be translated into English, Samoan, and Marshallese, and interpreters will be present during the sessions. The groups will be audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed by the Research Team for themes. Numerical data will also be collected about levels of public awareness about mental illness, mental health stigma, acculturation, and underutilization of mental health services from 100 Samoan and 100 Marshallese community members to better understand these possible service barriers.

Analyzed data will be used to develop a set of intervention components that are likely to increase service engagement among both Samoans and Marshallese. These components will provide the foundation for a universal service engagement intervention for Pacific Islanders that will be developed and tested in future research.

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Actual Enrollment :

0 participants

Allocation:

N/A

Intervention Model:

Single Group Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Primary Purpose:

Health Services Research

Official Title:

Engaging Pacific Islander Perspectives on Mental Illness and Mental Health Services

Actual Study Start Date :

Sep 30, 2017

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Nov 30, 2018

Actual Study Completion Date :

Mar 30, 2019

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Other: No intervention	Other: Citizens' panels This study is exploratory in nature, designed to capture lay Pacific Islanders' thoughts and beliefs about existing service engagement approaches. Therefore, there are no study arms to list.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Other: No intervention

Other: Citizens' panels

This study is exploratory in nature, designed to capture lay Pacific Islanders' thoughts and beliefs about existing service engagement approaches. Therefore, there are no study arms to list.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Number of participants participating in study [Up to 20 months]
There is no primary quantitative outcome beyond increased knowledge of Pacific Islander mental health beliefs and treatment preferences

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

Male

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

Samoan or Marshallese heritage; living in Los Angeles County or Northwest Arkansas; age 18 years or older; English, Samoan, or Marshallese oral and reading fluency

Exclusion Criteria:

Not of Samoan or Marshallese heritage; living outside the catchment areas; younger than 18 years; not fluent in English, Samoan, or Marshallese

Contacts and Locations

Locations

No locations specified.

Sponsors and Collaborators

University of California, Riverside

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

Andrew Subica, Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT03236766

Other Study ID Numbers:

R21MH110814

First Posted:

Aug 2, 2017

Last Update Posted:

Oct 4, 2021

Last Verified:

Sep 1, 2021

Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:

Plan to Share IPD:

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Mental Disorders

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Oct 4, 2021