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{"title":"Characterizing Crisis Services Offered by Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics: Results From a National Survey.","authors":"Amanda I Mauri, Saba Rouhani, Jonathan Purtle","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240152","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240152","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The authors aimed to examine how certified community behavioral health clinics (CCBHCs) fulfill crisis service requirements and whether clinics added crisis services after becoming a CCBHC.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>National survey data on CCBHC crisis services were paired with data on clinic features and the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the counties within a CCBHC service area. The dependent variables were whether CCBHCs provided the three categories of CCBHC crisis services (i.e., crisis call lines, mobile crisis response, and crisis stabilization) directly or through another organization and whether these services were added after becoming a CCBHC. Descriptive statistics and multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed with data about clinics and the counties they served. In total, 449 CCBHCs were surveyed in the summer of 2022, with a response rate of 56%. The final sample comprised 247 clinics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The number of CCBHC employees per 1,000 people within a CCBHC service area was significantly and positively associated with clinics providing some crisis services directly (mobile crisis response: adjusted OR [AOR]=1.46, 95% CI=1.08-1.98; crisis stabilization services: AOR=1.60, 95% CI=1.17-2.19). Compared with clinics that did not receive a CCBHC Medicaid bundled payment, clinics that received this payment had higher odds of adding mobile crisis response (AOR=2.52, 95% CI=1.28-4.97) and crisis stabilization services (AOR=3.19, 95% CI=1.51-6.72) after becoming a CCBHC.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>CCBHC initiatives, particularly CCBHC Medicaid bundled payments, may provide opportunities to increase the availability of behavioral health crisis services, but the sufficiency of this increase for meeting crisis care needs remains unknown.</p>","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"appips20240152"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141976486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychotropic Polypharmacy Combinations and Duration of Polypharmacy Among Medicaid-Enrolled Youths.","authors":"Yueh-Yi Chiang, Alejandro Amill-Rosario, Phuong Tran, Susan dosReis","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20240113","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study evaluated psychotropic polypharmacy frequency and patterns of use among Medicaid-enrolled youths.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional study of a state Medicaid claims database (2015-2020) focused on youths (≤17 years old) with at least one psychotropic medication claim and ≥90 continuous days of Medicaid enrollment. Psychotropic polypharmacy (claims for three or more therapeutic classes of psychotropics for ≥90 consecutive days) was analyzed as average annual days and annual prevalence of class combinations. Multivariable negative binomial regression models assessed changes in annual psychotropic polypharmacy days.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 126,972 unique youths were identified. Almost all youths with psychotropic polypharmacy had three-class combinations, the most common of which included attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder medications, antipsychotics, and antidepressants. The number of polypharmacy days increased from a mean±SD of 227.8±90.3 in 2015 to 235.7±97.5 in 2020. Polypharmacy days significantly increased year over year (rate ratio=1.01, 95% CI=1.00-1.01).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Psychotropic polypharmacy regimens reflect chronic use that is increasing over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"appips20240113"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141976487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Implementation of Community Health Worker Support for Tobacco Cessation: A Mixed-Methods Study.","authors":"Cheryl Y S Foo, Kevin Potter, Lindsay Nielsen, Aarushi Rohila, Melissa Culhane Maravic, Kristina Schnitzer, Gladys N Pachas, Douglas E Levy, Sally Reyering, Anne N Thorndike, Corinne Cather, A Eden Evins","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240044","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240044","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Adults with serious mental illness have high rates of tobacco use disorder and underuse pharmacotherapy for tobacco cessation. In a previous randomized controlled trial, participants receiving community health worker (CHW) support and education for their primary care providers (PCPs) had higher tobacco abstinence rates at 2 years, partly because of increased initiation of tobacco-cessation pharmacotherapy. The authors aimed to determine the association between CHW-participant engagement and tobacco abstinence outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The authors conducted a secondary, mixed-methods analysis of 196 participants in the trial's intervention arm. Effects of the number and duration of CHW visits, number of smoking-cessation group sessions attended, and number of CHW-attended PCP visits on initiation of tobacco-cessation pharmacotherapy and tobacco abstinence were modeled via logistic regression. Interviews with 12 CHWs, 17 patient participants, and 17 PCPs were analyzed thematically.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Year 2 tobacco abstinence was significantly associated with CHW visit number (OR=1.85, 95% CI=1.29-2.66), visit duration (OR=1.51, 95% CI=1.00-2.28), and number of group sessions attended (OR=1.85, 95% CI=1.33-2.58); effects on pharmacotherapy initiation were similar. One to three CHW visits per month across 2 years were optimal for achieving abstinence. Interviews identified CHW-patient engagement facilitators (i.e., trust, goal accountability, skills reinforcement, assistance in overcoming barriers to treatment access, and adherence). Training and supervision facilitated CHW effectiveness; barriers included PCPs' and care teams' limited understanding of the CHW role.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Greater CHW-participant engagement, within feasible dose ranges, was associated with tobacco abstinence among adults with serious mental illness. Implementation of CHW interventions may benefit from further CHW training and integration within clinical teams.</p>","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"appips20240044"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141907582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mental Health Agency Officials' Perceived Priorities for Youth Mental Health and Factors That Influence Priorities.","authors":"Blanche Wright, Katherine L Nelson, Kimberly E Hoagwood, Jonathan Purtle","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20230430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20230430","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to characterize the perceived priorities of state and county policy makers for youth mental health services and the factors that influence those priorities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Mental health agency officials (N=338; N=221 state officials, N=117 county officials) representing 49 states completed a Web-based survey in 2019-2020. On 5-point scales, respondents rated the extent to which 15 issues were priorities for their agency in providing youth mental health services and the extent to which nine factors influenced those priorities.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Suicide was identified as the highest priority (mean±SD rating=4.38±0.94), followed by adverse childhood experiences and childhood trauma and then increasing access to evidence-based treatments. Budget issues (mean=4.27±0.92) and state legislative priorities (mean=4.01±0.99) were perceived as having the greatest influence on setting priorities.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings provide insights into youth mental health policy priorities and can be used to guide implementation and dissemination strategies for research and program development within state and county systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"appips20230430"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141875814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceived Stigma Toward Cognitive Impairment Among People With Schizophrenia.","authors":"Lauren Gonzales, Alice M Saperstein, Nev Jones, Matthew D Erlich, Alice Medalia","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20240106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20240106","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Stigma toward schizophrenia spectrum disorders is pervasive and negatively influences service access and delivery. Cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia (CIAS) is common, but its association with stigma is unknown. In this study, the authors examined whether individuals with CIAS receiving cognitive remediation treatment report experiencing CIAS-related stigma and sought to establish associations between CIAS-related stigma and recovery-relevant outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from 48 individuals with schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses were drawn from a larger study evaluating cognitive remediation. Participants completed measures of CIAS-related stigma, internalized mental illness stigma, self-perceived cognitive impairment, cognitive performance, and interviewer-rated quality of life.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>CIAS-related stigma was commonly reported and significantly positively associated with internalized stigma and self-perceived cognitive impairment. CIAS-related stigma was also significantly negatively associated with motivation to engage in goal-directed behavior and daily activities.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>CIAS-related stigma exists and warrants additional exploration with regard to implications for psychiatric service delivery.</p>","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"appips20240106"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141875781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jail-Based For-Profit Mental Health Providers and Treatment Engagement After Release.","authors":"Lester J Kern, Erin B Comartin, Victoria Nelson, Sheryl P Kubiak","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20230396","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.ps.20230396","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study compared mental health treatment engagement among people with serious mental illness after release from jails that had either a for-profit (N=3 jails) or a nonprofit mental health provider (N=7 jails).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Across the 10 jails, data were collected in 2019 for 1,238 individuals with serious mental illness. Data included demographic characteristics (age, race-ethnicity, gender, geography, and jail type) and behavioral health variables (previous mental health treatment, psychotropic medication use, substance use, and receipt of jail-based mental health services). Logistic regression was used to predict treatment engagement during the year after release, stratified by type of jail-based mental health provider, in analyses controlled for demographic and behavioral health variables.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Almost half (46%, N=573) of the individuals had stayed in jails with a for-profit mental health provider; the other half (54%, N=665) had stayed in jails with a nonprofit provider. In the year after release, 37% (N=458) of all individuals engaged in mental health treatment, and 63% (N=780) did not. Those who had stayed in a jail with a for-profit provider were significantly less likely to engage in mental health treatment during the year after release (AOR=0.59, 95% CI=0.42-0.83, p<0.01), compared with those in jails having a nonprofit provider.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Staying in a jail with a for-profit mental health provider was associated with reduced postrelease engagement with community service providers. Less engagement with services during a pivotal time after release may increase behavioral health crises that erode individuals' well-being and may raise downstream costs due to further criminal legal involvement and emergency care use.</p>","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"756-762"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140111274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interagency Coordination to Manage Co-Occurring Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Conditions.","authors":"Elizabeth M Stone, Andrew D Jopson, Danielle German, Alexander D McCourt, Emma E McGinty","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20230451","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.ps.20230451","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The authors aimed to identify barriers to and strategies for supporting coordination between state agencies for intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) or mental health to meet the mental health needs of people with co-occurring IDD and mental health conditions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Forty-nine employees of state agencies as well as advocacy and service delivery organizations across 11 U.S. states with separate IDD and mental health agencies were interviewed between April 2022 and April 2023. Data were analyzed with a thematic analysis approach.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Interviewees reported that relationships between the IDD and mental health agencies have elements of both competition and coordination and that coordination primarily takes place in response to crisis events. Barriers to interagency coordination included a narrow focus on the populations targeted by each agency, within-state variation in agency structures, and a lack of knowledge about co-occurring IDD and mental health conditions. Interviewees also described both administrative (e.g., memorandums of understanding) and agency culture (e.g., focusing on whole-person care) strategies that are or could be used to improve coordination to provide mental health services for people with both IDD and a mental health condition.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Strategies that support state agencies in moving away from crisis response toward a focus on whole-person care should be prioritized to support coordination of mental health services for individuals with co-occurring IDD and mental health conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"770-777"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11293977/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141071935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"MOUD Adoption Among Clients of Organizations That Provide MOUD or Coordinate Care With External Providers.","authors":"Rebecca E Stewart, Nicholas C Cardamone, Charles A Altman, Jill Bowen, David S Mandell","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20230522","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.ps.20230522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"824-825"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140294370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patients' Reasons for Using Out-of-Network Mental and General Medical Health Providers.","authors":"Susan H Busch, Kelly Kyanko","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20230212","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.ps.20230212","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The authors sought to assess why patients use out-of-network health care providers and whether patients' reasons differ for mental and general medical health providers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a national Internet survey of commercial plan enrollees (N=713) who used an out-of-network provider, participants indicated whether 12 reasons were \"important\" (vs. \"not applicable\" or \"not important\") in their decision to see an out-of-network provider.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Reasons for using out-of-network care were multifactorial. Six reasons were similarly important, including the three most-cited reasons: convenient location (66% vs. 69% for mental vs. general medical health, respectively), higher quality (65% vs. 69%), and affordability (70% vs. 71%). Reasons more commonly cited for using out-of-network mental health care were that in-network providers were not taking new patients (34% vs. 24%), confidentiality (33% vs. 19%), cultural competence (33% vs. 23%), and inaccurate in-network provider directories (30% vs. 22%).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The most common reasons for using out-of-network care were cited with similar frequency for both mental health and general medical health providers.</p>","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"812-816"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140040226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Helping Practitioners Stop, Drop, and Roll: Suggestions to Help Improve Responses to Intense Clinical Events.","authors":"Kelly B Beck, Heather J Nuske, Emily M Becker Haimes, Gwendolyn M Lawson, David S Mandell","doi":"10.1176/appi.ps.20230574","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.ps.20230574","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Community practitioners inconsistently implement evidence-based interventions. Implementation science emphasizes the importance of some practitioner characteristics, such as motivation, but factors such as practitioners' emotion regulation and cognitive processing receive less attention. Practitioners often operate in stressful environments that differ from those in which they received training. They may underestimate the impact of their emotional state on their ability to deliver evidence-based interventions. This \"hot-cold state empathy gap\" is not well studied in mental health care. In this Open Forum, the authors describe scenarios where this gap is affecting practitioners' ability to implement evidence-based practices. The authors provide suggestions to help practitioners plan for stressful situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":20878,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric services","volume":" ","pages":"817-819"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11479718/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139973226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}