Abstract
Regularly administering outcome measures to clients to inform clinical decision making, referred to as measurement-based care (MBC), has the potential to improve mental health treatment due to its applicability across disorders and treatment settings. Given the utility of MBC, understanding predictors of high-fidelity MBC implementation is important. Training and consultation are widely used implementation strategies to increase the fidelity of evidence-based practice delivery but have rarely been studied with MBC. The current study will examine the relationship between time clinicians spent discussing a case in consultation (“dosage”) and MBC fidelity. Thirty clinicians and 56 youth were in the MBC condition of a randomized controlled trial and completed baseline questionnaires. Consultation dosage was extracted from call notes. MBC fidelity was measured using the implementation index, which combines rates of administering and viewing questionnaires, using objective data from the online MBC system. Multi-level modeling was used. Greater consultation dosage significantly predicted a higher implementation index (ß = 0.27, SE = 0.06, p <.001). For every 30 min spent discussing a case in consultation, the case’s MBC fidelity increased by 8.1%. Greater consultation dosage significantly predicted higher rates of administration (ß = 0.07, SE = 0.03, p = 0.033) and feedback report viewing (ß = 0.24, SE = 0.06, p <.001). More consultation at the case level predicts greater MBC fidelity using objective measures. The greatest impact was increasing the clinician feedback report viewing rate. The results of this study can help inform future efforts to increase the fidelity with which MBC is delivered and to make consultation as efficient and effective as possible.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 28-40 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research |
Volume | 52 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2025 |
Funding
This research was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Grant Nos. R01MH106536 & R01 MH106657.
Keywords
- Anxiety
- Community mental health
- Consultation
- Depression
- Evidence-based practice
- Implementation science
- Measurement-based care
- Youth
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Phychiatric Mental Health
- Health Policy
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Psychiatry and Mental health