Adapting digital single session interventions for delivery by lay providers in rural high schools
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Project Summary Adolescents face significant structural, cultural, and economic barriers to accessing mental health care for depression. These discrepancies are deeply pronounced in rural communities, where adolescents report higher rates of internalizing problems compared to their urban peers, yet providers and treatment options are especially scarce. Rural adolescents that do access treatment are overwhelmingly likely to do so in school settings. However, even in schools, treatment options are limited due to a shortage of school mental health providers and funding making it difficult to implement resource-intensive interventions delivered by teachers or other school staff. Thus, when expanding the reach of evidence-based services in rural-area schools, school mental health professionals (SMHP) will be essential for sustainable implementation. Single-session interventions (SSIs) represent one promising approach to offering scalable, effective mental health support in school settings for youth with internalizing symptoms. SSIs offered within school settings can greatly improve rural youths’ access to mental health services – overcoming several of the system-level barriers often faced by their population. Due to difficulty accessing reliable internet services and youth preferences for self-guided treatment versus human-delivered, providing multiple modalities (e.g., digital self- guided treatment, human- delivered) for accessing mental health support can help to alleviate youth internalizing problems. Task sharing has the potential to accelerate the dissemination and implementation of mental health supports for rural youth as a Tier 2 support and provide alternative sources of mental health support for rural teens. In line with NIMH strategic plan goals 3 and 4, which focus on tailoring existing interventions to optimize outcomes and meet the needs of populations in resource constrained settings (e.g., rural adolescents), testing interventions for effectiveness in community settings, and improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and reach of interventions in different communities and populations. The goal of my proposal is to improve access to mental health care for rural youth through the development and evaluation of human-delivered SSIs as a Tier 2 support within school settings by SMHP. I will be in an ideal training environment at Northwestern University to conduct this study and learn how to develop a general research pipeline. Training and mentorship will be received from Dr. Jessica Schleider will provide training in the implementation of SSIs within rural school systems, Dr. Eric J. Bruns on community- engaged research with rural school systems, Dr. Sara Becker on user-centered design (UCD) and dissemination science, Dr. Miya Barnett on UCD and the development of the SMHP toolkit/human- delivered SSI, Dr. Andrew Berry on UCD methods and facilitation of asynchronous remote communities/semi- structured interviews, Dr. Ijeoma Opara on community-engaged research and design with resource- constrained communities. Lastly, Dr. Eric Arzubi will provide mentorship and on-the-ground support in rural communities through his expertise working in rural Montana school districts.
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Adapting digital single session interventions for delivery by lay providers in rural high schools is a NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health grant providing up to $188K for university, nonprofit, healthcare org. Applications are due 2031-06-30 (open). Check eligibility and apply with FindGrants.
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Up to $188K
2031-06-30
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