NCT05344378

Refining and Implementing Technology-Enhanced Family Navigation to Promote Early Access and Engagement With Mental Health Services for Youth With Autism

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 65 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Diego · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project, Refining and Implementing Technology-Enhanced Family Navigation to Promote Early Access and Engagement with Mental Health Services for Youth with Autism (ATTAIN NAV) is focused on adapting and implementing family navigation in primary care settings to help accelerate and facilitate engagement in mental health and community services for children with autism and their families.

Detailed description

Efficient and effective access to and engagement with evidence-based mental health (MH) services for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is critically needed but requires a tailored approach. This project is critical in establishing integrated and sustainable local capacity to provide evidence-based MH care for children (ages 4-16 years) with ASD+ (i.e., children with ASD and co-occurring psychiatric disorders). Specifically, the overarching goal of this mixed methods proposal is to collaboratively adapt Family Navigation (FN) content, navigator activities and training for children with ASD+, identify and design technology enhancements to FN that will target key mechanisms to impact implementation, service and clinical outcomes, key interrelated outcomes for implementation research. The research team will leverage existing partnerships with primary care practices and lay health worker organizations in San Diego County to establish a community-academic partnership that will guide adaptations to FN for children with ASD+ (Aim 1), co-design of the navigator-facing technology enhancements (Aim 2) and trial the adapted and technology-enhanced FN (Aim 3).

Conditions

• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Implementation Science
• Mental Health
• Behavioral Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	ATTAIN NAV Technology-Enhanced Family Navigation Model	The purpose of ATTAIN NAV is to test the impact of family navigation in multiple primary care clinics in Southern California for children with autism who have additional mental health needs. Family navigation includes: screening and behavioral health referral, supporting access to behavioral health services, engaging in evidence-based treatment, monitoring to achieve family goals, family strengthening, and connecting to concrete resources.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-01
• Primary completion: 2024-07-30
• Completion: 2024-08-30
• First posted: 2022-04-25
• Last updated: 2026-01-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States