Clinical trial NCT02543840: Hybrid Collaborative Care Randomized Program Evaluation
Official title: Hybrid Controlled Trial to Implement Collaborative Care in General Mental Health
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mental Health Disorders
Keywords: Quality Improvement
Organization of Services
Implementation
Lead sponsor: VA Boston Healthcare System
Sponsor class: FED
Collaborators: name: US Department of Veterans Affairs
First posted: 2015-09-07
Enrollment: 1112
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SEQUENTIAL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This randomized program evaluation is undertaken in conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Mental Health Operations (OMHO) and the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative. It is designed to answer two related questions: (1) Can an evidence-based implementation strategy using the Center for Disease Control (CDC)'s Replicating Effective Programs plus External Facilitation (REP-F) enhance the adoption of team-based care in VA General Mental Health (GMH) Clinics, and (2) Does the establishment of such teams via implementation enhance Veterans' health status, satisfaction, and perceptions of care? The model for team-based care is the evidence-based Collaborative Chronic Care Model (CCM).

In conjunction with a nation-wide roll-out of the VA's Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program team (BHIP) initiative, the investigators have structured a randomized, controlled program evaluation to answer these questions. Specifically, using a stepped wedge design the investigators will randomize 9 VAMCs that have requested support in establishing a BHIP to 1 of 3 waves of REP-F support: immediate implementation support vs. 4-month vs. 8-month wait with dissemination of CCM materials (3 sites per wave). Fidelity and health outcome measures will be collected in a repeated measures design at 6-month intervals, and analyzed with general linear modeling.

Detailed description: Based on an internal system-wide review of mental health services and the Mental Health Action Plan submitted to Congress in November, 2011, the Office of Mental Health Operations (OMHO) has undertaken an effort to establish behavioral health interdisciplinary plans (BHIPs), which are intended to provide General Mental Health (GMH) care throughout the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The BHIP goal is to build effective interdisciplinary teams, which will provide the majority of care for Veterans in GMH. It is now expected that every Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) establish at least one BHIP in the current initial phase (begun in late fiscal year 2013), and that the effort scale-up subsequently. Not surprisingly, progress has been uneven.

In 2015 OMHO incorporated the Collaborative Chronic Care Model (CCM) as an evidence-based model by which to structure BHIPs. Consistent with BHIP goals, CCMs were developed to provide anticipatory, continuous, collaborative, evidence-based care. CCMs consist of 6 elements: delivery system redesign, use of clinical information systems, provider decision support, patient self-management support, linkage to community resources, and healthcare organization support. Replicating Effective Programs with External Facilitation (REP-F) has been shown to be effective in implementing complex care models, including CCMs for mental health, both within and beyond VA.

Thus in conjunction with OMHO, the investigators propose this project with the Specific Aim of evaluating the impact of REP-F in implementing CCM-based BHIPs and their effect on Veteran health status. The investigators propose a Hybrid Type III implementation-effectiveness stepped wedge controlled trial, specifically hypothesizing that:

H1: REP-F-based implementation to establish CCM-based BHIPs, compared to existing centralized technical assistance will result in: (H1a) increased Veteran perceptions of CCM-based care, (H1b) higher rates of achieving national BHIP clinical fidelity measures (implementation outcomes), and (H1c) higher provider ratings of the presence of CCM elements.

H2: CCM-based BHIPs, supported by REP-F implementation, will result in improved Veteran health outcomes compared to BHIPs supported by dissemination material alone (intervention outcomes).

The investigators will utilize the national BHIP rollout as a vehicle for this project. Using a stepped wedge design the investigators will randomize 9 VAMCs that have requested support in establishing a BHIP to 1 of 3 waves of REP-F support: immediate implementation support vs. 4-month vs. 8-month wait with dissemination of CCM materials (3 sites per wave). Fidelity and health outcome measures will be collected in a repeated measures design at 6-month intervals, and analyzed with general linear modeling.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

At least three visits to the General Mental Health Clinic's BHIP team in prior year

Exclusion Criteria:

Chart evidence of dementia

Primary outcomes:
measure: Veterans RAND-12 Mental Component Score (VR-12 MCS)
timeFrame: one year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Veterans RAND-12 Physical Component Scores (VR-12 PCS)
timeFrame: One year
measure: Satisfaction Index
timeFrame: One year
measure: Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire-Short Form (Q-LES-Q-SF)
timeFrame: One year
measure: Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC)
timeFrame: One year
measure: Team Development Measure (TDM)- Cohesion
timeFrame: baseline and during stepdown (6-12 months)
measure: Team Development Measure (TDM)- Communication
timeFrame: baseline and during stepdown (6-12 months)
measure: Team Development Measure (TDM)- Role Clarity
timeFrame: baseline and during stepdown (6-12 months)
measure: Team Development Measure (TDM)- Team Primacy
timeFrame: baseline and during stepdown (6-12 months)
measure: Mental Health Hospitalization Rates
timeFrame: Two years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: VA Boston Healthcare System
state: Massachusetts
Study officials:
affiliation: VA Boston Healthcare System
name: Mark S Bauer, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Woltmann E, Grogan-Kaylor A, Perron B, Georges H, Kilbourne AM, Bauer MS. Comparative effectiveness of collaborative chronic care models for mental health conditions across primary, specialty, and behavioral health care settings: systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Psychiatry. 2012 Aug;169(8):790-804. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.11111616.
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citation: Connolly SL, Sullivan JL, Ritchie MJ, Kim B, Miller CJ, Bauer MS. External facilitators' perceptions of internal facilitation skills during implementation of collaborative care for mental health teams: a qualitative analysis informed by the i-PARIHS framework. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 Mar 4;20(1):165. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-5011-3.
citation: Lew RA, Miller CJ, Kim B, Wu H, Stolzmann K, Bauer MS. A method to reduce imbalance for site-level randomized stepped wedge implementation trial designs. Implement Sci. 2019 May 3;14(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s13012-019-0893-3.
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