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Peer Navigation for Serious Mental Illness After Jail Release

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Recruiting

Research Sponsored by Michigan State University

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Aged 18 or above

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up baseline, 3 months and 6 months

Awards & highlights

No Placebo-Only Group

Summary

This trial proposes developing a peer-navigator intervention to help incarcerated individuals with serious mental illness access community-level mental health & medical care services after release.

Who is the study for?

This trial is for adults in Genesee County Jail with serious mental illness (like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression with psychosis) who are getting out in the next two months. They must be able to provide contacts for follow-up and have access to a phone. It's not for those going straight to prison after jail.

What is being tested?

The study is testing a 'peer navigation intervention' designed to help individuals with serious mental illness connect better with community services like mental health care, medical treatment, and substance use programs after they leave jail.

What are the potential side effects?

Since this trial involves social support rather than medication, traditional side effects aren't expected. However, participants may experience emotional discomfort or stress during the re-entry process which the peer navigation aims to mitigate.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

You may be eligible if you check “Yes” for the criteria below

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I am 18 years old or older.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ baseline, three months and six months.

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~baseline, three months and six months.

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and baseline, three months and six months. for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Study objectives can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary study objectives

Acceptability: Client Satisfaction Questionnaire

Acceptability: End of treatment

Feasibility: Client Satisfaction

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Secondary study objectives

Clinical outcomes

Life context outcomes

Service linkage outcomes

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Awards & Highlights

No Placebo-Only Group

All patients enrolled in this study will receive some form of active treatment.

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: Peer navigationExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

Those who are assigned to the intervention arm will receive peer navigation service by a trained peer navigator who will link them with mental health, medical and substance use services in the community.

Group II: Standard of CareActive Control1 Intervention

SOC consists of TAU + monitoring and emergency referral, as is required to fulfil ethical obligations to trial participants. To determine the naturalistic effects and costs of adding peer navigation intervention, participants in both conditions can receive any other treatment available to them and we will not exclude participants receiving other treatment. We will carefully characterize TAU for each condition as part of our service utilization assessment.

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