Project 2: The Right Question Project - Mental Health. The RQP-MH project is a randomized control trial designed to test and evaluate a patient activation and self-management intervention in mental health care, and identify whether provider training can further increase patient activation and self-management in the clinical encounter. The main objective of the patient activation and self-management trainings is to help patients learn how to formulate and ask questions about mental health care concerns and treatment; to focus and participate effectively on key decisions made during the course of mental health treatment; and to better self-manage their illness and mental health care.

Project 3: Disparities in Substance Abuse Treatment. We are conducting four sets of analyses aimed at better understanding the magnitude of substance abuse treatment disparities, the mechanisms by which they occur, and the social and economic burden of these disparities. These analyses are designed to generate policy-relevant information that will impact a wide range of key stakeholders in the health disparities and substance abuse field, including academics, practitioners, community leaders and the general public.

Pilot 1: Disparities in Mental Health Care in Nursing Homes. This pilot documents disparities in the treatment and outcomes of mentally ill nursing home residents exist by race and ethnicity and decomposes the sources of any disparities in the treatment and outcomes of mentally ill nursing home residents and determine whether they are predominantly a “within” or “across” facility phenomenon