Outcomes of a Metaintervention to Improve Treatment Engagement Among Young Adults With Serious Mental Illnesses: Application of a Pilot Randomized Explanatory Design.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The objective of this study was to conduct a preliminary evaluation of a new young adult-centered metaintervention to improve treatment engagement among those with serious mental illness.

Methods

Young adults, clinic staff, and policy makers provided feedback on the intervention, which is a two-module engagement program provided by a clinician and person with lived experience (peer) during intake. A two-group pilot randomized explanatory trial design was conducted, comparing treatment as usual with treatment as usual plus the engagement program, Just Do You. The primary outcomes were treatment engagement and presumed mediators of program effects measured at 3 months after baseline.

Results

The randomized explanatory trial indicated that young adults in Just Do

SUBMITTER: Munson MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8545849 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature