mHealth for Mental Health Program
Low and Middle Income Countries
mHealth Implementation in the United States
This project is funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and is a collaboration between The University of Washington and community mental health agencies in New Hampshire, Missouri, and Washington.
This initiative is designed to implement a smartphone-based self-management program—shown to encourage treatment and improve symptoms for patients with serious mental illness—in real-world mental health clinics. To support implementation at the agencies our project team is:
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Making training available to agency staff who serve as embedded support specialists for the mHealth program.
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Identifying champions at each clinic to promote the use of the program
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Providing feedback to clinics on referrals to and use of the program
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Developing and deploying a learning management system (LMS) to digitize and streamline training activities.
Our Partners
FOCUS
FOCUS is an evidence-based self-management smartphone intervention designed to support the recovery of people with schizophrenia.
FOCUS is available on both Android and iOS for the purposes of this study.
Training
The FOCUS mHealth training manual and supportive tools were adapted to a digital asynchronous curriculum hosted on a learning management system. The training was tailored to suit the roles and responsibilities of various clinical stakeholders - including supervisors, clinicians, and mHealth Support Specialists.
The Research Team
