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Care Team and Practice Level Implementation Strategies to Optimize Pediatric Collaborative Care: A Cluster-Randomized Trial

Award Number: R01MH124914
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 01/18/2021
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 11/30/2026

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Care Team and Practice Level Implementation Strategies to Optimize Pediatric Collaborative Care: A Cluster-Randomized Trial - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Chronic care models (CCM) that deliver evidence-based practices (EBP) by multidisciplinary provider teams with primary care physicians (PCP) and behavioral health (BH) providers (as care managers, CM) have improved BH outcomes in adults1-3 and children/teens, but their widespread application is impeded by implementation barriers at multiple levels. As an example, our clinical trials document the benefits of a simplified cross-diagnosis CCM protocol for child behavior problems and ADHD (Doctor Office Collaborative Care; DOCC; MH064372), but DOCC requires targeted implementation support to enhance uptake and address practical barriers at the care team (e.g., low coordination) and practice/leadership levels (e.g., low priority). Further, meta-analyses suggest that science provides few answers for how to overcome such obstacles as trials have not tested implementation strategies to scale-up a pediatric CCM. As a theory-based implementation intervention, Facilitation delivered by an outside expert with providers/teams (external) or practice manager/leaders (internal) has enhanced provider competency to deliver an EBP and leadership or organizational-level commitment to EBP implementation. External facilitation strategies applied to a care team (TEAM) may engage validated targets (i.e., team functioning), whereas internal facilitation strategies applied to leaders (LEAD) may engage practice-level targets (i.e., implementation support) to enhance uptake. They may interact to enhance EBP uptake and patient outcomes. This R01 application proposes a randomized, hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation trial to: 1) test the main and interactive effects of TEAM and LEAD facilitation augmentation on provider implementation and clinical outcomes, 2) test for target engagement and mediation at the team and leadership levels, and 3) examine selected practice, provider, and family moderators of implementation. The state-wide sample includes 24 primary care practices from the medical home program of the American Academy of Pediatrics-Pennsylvania Chapter. After standard training in the DOCC EBP, all practices will be randomized to one of four conditions: 1) No TEAM or LEAD; 2) TEAM only; 3) LEAD only, and 4) TEAM+LEAD. TEAM and LEAD facilitation will be delivered via videoconference on a graded schedule over 18 months. Care teams will deliver DOCC to 25 children who meet the clinical cutoff (75th percentile) on the Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 Externalizing scale and their caregivers. We will collect practice/provider measures from 175 practice staff (0, 6, 12, 18, 24 months) and 600 caregivers (i.e., 0, 3, 6, 12 months) to support all analyses. Collection of generalizable data to routine pediatric practice will yield new knowledge about the impact, mediators, and moderators of CCM implementation. In one of the first large-scale pediatric trials of a service system intervention to address these aims and respond to RFA-MH-18-701 and the NIMH’s Strategic Plan (4.2), this trial will advance the implementation science knowledge needed to refine promising strategies for accelerating the delivery and scale-up of DOCC in a pediatric medical home.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $741,813 )
2025	2025	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4200 FIFTH AVENUE	PITTSBURGH	PA	15260	ALLEGHENY	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	5	7/11/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$741,813
2025	2025	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4200 FIFTH AVENUE	PITTSBURGH	PA	15260	ALLEGHENY	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	001	5	9/18/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $741,813

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $809,768 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4200 FIFTH AVENUE	PITTSBURGH	PA	15260	ALLEGHENY	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	001	4	7/1/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$80,978
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4200 FIFTH AVENUE	PITTSBURGH	PA	15260	ALLEGHENY	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	4	3/1/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$728,790
														Subtotal = $809,768

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $809,740 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4200 FIFTH AVENUE	PITTSBURGH	PA	15260	ALLEGHENY	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	001	3	1/20/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$80,974
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4200 FIFTH AVENUE	PITTSBURGH	PA	15260	ALLEGHENY	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	3	1/5/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$728,766
														Subtotal = $809,740

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $790,234 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, THE	4200 5TH AVE	PITTSBURGH	PA	15260	ALLEGHENY	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	001	2	6/21/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$79,023
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, THE	4200 5TH AVE	PITTSBURGH	PA	15260	ALLEGHENY	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	2	11/24/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$711,211
														Subtotal = $790,234

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $838,443 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE	3520 FIFTH AVE	PITTSBURGH	PA	15213	ALLEGHENY	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	1	1/18/2021	NEW	$758,836
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, THE	4200 5TH AVE	PITTSBURGH	PA	15260	ALLEGHENY	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	001	1	5/7/2021	NEW	$79,607
														Subtotal = $838,443

Grand Total All Awards = $3,989,998

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Care Team and Practice Level Implementation Strategies to Optimize Pediatric Collaborative Care: A Cluster-Randomized Trial

Award Number: R01MH124914

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 01/18/2021

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 11/30/2026

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