This trial is evaluating whether Peer Navigation will improve 3 primary outcomes and 11 secondary outcomes in patients with Psychiatric Disorder NOS. Measurement will happen over the course of Baseline, 4 months, 8 months, 12 months.
This trial requires 354 total participants across 2 different treatment groups
This trial involves 2 different treatments. Peer Navigation is the primary treatment being studied. Participants will all receive the same treatment. There is no placebo group. The treatments being tested are not being studied for commercial purposes.
"Symptoms of mental disorders such as social isolation, hopelessness and loss of initiative will last for more than 4 weeks. These signs should then be treated in the appropriate way. For example, for loneliness or hopelessness treatment can be helpful. However, in case of social isolation and losing of initiative it is difficult to treat due to their duration (5 weeks or longer). In these cases treatment can be more effective in case of social isolation than hopelessness." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"The effectiveness of the various treatment protocols depends on the patient and the patient's symptoms. The current medical and institutional approaches may not always lead to a desirable outcome. One option is to continue applying the traditional therapies. We do not claim that the traditional treatments are curative. More advanced and complex therapies may be necessary to reach a complete cure. However, it is important to keep in mind that treatment is generally a short process that can be very effective." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Each year, around 14.5 million US adults are diagnosed with a mental disorder. This makes up 19.1% of American adults (i.e. 12.5 million of US adults have one or more mental disorders at some point in their life)." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"It is now believed that most people develop psychological disorders through the process of the early stages of child development. The biological factors involved in this process are generally consistent and can be predicted. The most difficult challenge involves finding a means of preventing or reversing these factors." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"As a whole, a mental disorder is a condition that is believed to be caused by an abnormality in thinking, feeling or behaving. The most common mental disorders include major mental disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression, and minor mental disorders including anxiety disorder and substance misuse disorder. Psychiatric disorders also include substance use disorders.\n" - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Physical and mental fitness is an important part of treatment for many mental disorders such as mood disorders. Weight is considered important, although there is no evidence that it improves outcomes. Exercise is not well studied.\n\n- Complementary and alternative medicine"" - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Given the complexity of the problem, the potential for harm, and the lack of clear evidence concerning effectiveness, further rigorous evaluations of peer navigation in the community are warranted to confirm its efficacy." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Results from a recent paper, we found that nearly all the participants used the peer navigation component of DASH. Participants received referrals from their peer in the peer navigation group for: mental health, addiction, and substance abuse problems; sexual health and relationships; and mental health, social and vocational, and employment challenges, particularly for those with a lower level of education, more racial or ethnic minority, and poor access to care. Peer navigation programs could benefit clients of marginalized populations by increasing quality care for the population they represent." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Given the small sample size in this study, we conclude that the usefulness of peer navigation when other treatments are being used is still not known. Future studies on peer navigation and other treatments should use the same or similar definitions for peer and navigation and use a larger sample of patients as controls. We also suggest that the results obtained from this study may be more important in terms of patient engagement and in-depth knowledge on the purpose of peer navigation." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"The majority of the patients or their family members or guardians were not interested in the clinical trials of mental disorders that target treatment with psychoactive agents. It is necessary for clinicians and researchers to address clinicians' and patients' barriers for clinical trials to meet the patients' needs, to create effective communication between the clinicians and research participants and to educate the patients with psychiatric disorders." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Compared to a placebo only, peer navigation has demonstrated a significant improvement in the short-term improvement of psychiatric symptoms and health care use after rehabilitation. Further research is necessary in larger sample sizes to replicate these results." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Peer navigation in an academic psychiatry clinic appears to be superior to usual care in terms of enhancing patient-provider interactions during psychiatric evaluation, referral assessment, and treatment decision making. Results from a recent clinical trial are based on data on patient and provider behaviors gleaned from interviews. They suggest that peer navigation may be a reasonable approach for improving the quality of care delivered in psychiatric services, even in an academic outpatient setting." - Anonymous Online Contributor