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Community Interventions to Promote Mental Health and Social Equity

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Castillo, Enrico G., Ijadi-Maghsoodi, Roya, Shadravan, Sonya, Moore, Elizabeth, Mensah, Michael O., Docherty, Mary, Aguilera Nunez, Maria Gabriela, Barcelo, Nicolás +18 more·2019·Current Psychiatry Reports

Abstract

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: We review recent community interventions to promote mental health and social equity. We define community interventions as those that involve multi-sector partnerships, emphasize community members as integral to the intervention, and/or deliver services in community settings. We examine literature in seven topic areas: collaborative care, early psychosis, school-based interventions, homelessness, criminal justice, global mental health, and mental health promotion/prevention. We adapt the social-ecological model for health promotion and provide a framework for understanding the actions of community interventions. RECENT FINDINGS: There are recent examples of effective interventions in each topic area. The majority of interventions focus on individual, family/interpersonal, and program/institutional social-ecological levels, with few intervening on whole communities or involving multiple non-healthcare sectors. Findings from many studies reinforce the interplay among mental health, interpersonal relationships, and social determinants of health. There is evidence for the effectiveness of community interventions for improving mental health and some social outcomes across social-ecological levels. Studies indicate the importance of ongoing resources and training to maintain long-term outcomes, explicit attention to ethics and processes to foster equitable partnerships, and policy reform to support sustainable healthcare-community collaborations.

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This review synthesizes recent community interventions across seven topic areas and finds evidence for improving mental health and some social outcomes at multiple social-ecological levels. It emphasizes the need for sustained resources and training, equitable community partnerships, and policy reform to support long-term healthcare-community collaborations.

Key findings

  • Multi-sector collaborative care: In Community Partners in Care (CPIC), 95 programs across five sectors served a predominantly under-resourced racial/ethnic minority sample (n = 1018; 46% African American, 41% Latino, 74% below federal poverty level); at 6 months, Community Engagement and Planning vs. Resources for Services improved health-related quality of life, increased physical activity, reduced homelessness risk factors, and reduced behavioral health hospitalizations, though main effects diminished over time.
  • Early psychosis and justice interventions: The Danish OPUS trial showed significant 2-year benefits for assertive early intervention, but most differences dissipated at 10-year follow-up; Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (n = 35 vs. 35) produced fewer convictions (0.4 ± 0.7 vs. 0.9 ± 1.3, p = .023), fewer days in jail (21.5 ± 25.9 vs. 43.5 ± 59.2, p = .025), and more outpatient mental health treatment days (305.5 ± 92.1 vs. 169.4 ± 139.6, p < .001).
  • Housing, global mental health, and prevention: In At Home/Chez Moi (n = 950), Housing First participants entered housing faster (73 vs. 220 days) and retained housing longer (281 vs. 115 days); in Goa, India, the lay-counselor-delivered Healthy Activity Program (n = 495) reduced depression severity, suicidal ideation, disability, days out of work, and intimate partner violence; a South African parenting program (n = 115 dyads) reduced child abuse from 63.0% to 29.5% (p < .001).
  • School and community-level prevention: In the FRIENDS trial (41 schools, n = 1343), health-led FRIENDS was more effective than school-led FRIENDS or PSHE for anxiety outcomes, with no effects on math, reading, or writing test scores; Communities That Care (24 communities, n > 14,000) showed reduced substance use, delinquency, and violence at eighth grade, with some effects persisting to age 21 (n = 4002; e.g., increased lifetime abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use, ARR 1.49, 95% CI 1.03, 2.16).

Methods

  • Narrative review, not a comprehensive systematic review, focusing on interventions published in peer-reviewed medical journals from 2015 to 2018, with additional studies identified through reference mining and expert recommendations.
  • Seven topic areas were selected: multi-sector collaborative care, early psychosis, school-based interventions, homelessness, criminal justice, global mental health, and mental health promotion/prevention; studies were selected for design, outcomes, and/or impact.
  • Community interventions were defined as those involving multi-sector partnerships, including community members as integral to the intervention, and/or delivering services in community settings; the review adapts the social-ecological model for health promotion.

Limitations

  • Stated: The review highlights major developments and trends rather than providing a comprehensive systematic review, and it excludes substance use interventions, which the authors say warrant a separate review.
  • Stated/evident: Most reviewed interventions focused on individual, family/interpersonal, and program/institutional social-ecological levels, with few intervening on whole communities or involving multiple non-healthcare sectors.
  • Evident from the text: Several beneficial effects diminished over time (e.g., CPIC, OPUS), some interventions had negative or unexpected results (e.g., London early intervention service referral study; expedited Medicaid enrollment associated with greater jail/prison days), and the authors note the importance of ongoing resources, training, and policy reform to sustain outcomes.

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  • Findingcitation

    Adapted ACT teams for early psychosis and justice-involved populations are effective community interventions.

    “International lay health worker interventions, a parenting intervention to reduce child abuse, a whole-school cognitive behavioral therapy prevention program, adapted ACT teams for early psychosis and justice-involved populations, Housing First services, and multi-sector collaborative care and prevention services are examples of effective community interventions.”
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    Most interventions reviewed here included one non-healthcare sector collaborator as opposed to collaborating with communities more broadly.

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    We found only a small number of studies that intervened at the level of whole communities.

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    Other studies acted at the community level by directly providing or influencing resources on a large scale, through cash/food transfers or land revitalization efforts.

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    Housing First services are effective community interventions.

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    There are recent examples of effective community interventions in each of seven topic areas: collaborative care, early psychosis, school-based interventions, homelessness, criminal justice, global mental health, and mental health promotion/prevention.

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    The majority of community interventions focus on individual, family/interpersonal, and program/institutional social-ecological levels, with few intervening on whole communities or involving multiple non-healthcare sectors.

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    There is evidence for the effectiveness of community interventions in multiple topic areas and acting at all social-ecological levels.

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    Studies indicate the need for policy reform to support healthcare-community partnerships.

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    Findings from many studies reinforce the interplay among mental health, interpersonal relationships, and social determinants of health.

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    Multi-sector and community-based mental healthcare approaches can help address health and social inequities by promoting social well-being and addressing structural determinants of mental health.

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    Studies indicate the importance of explicit attention to ethics and processes to foster equitable partnerships.

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    Studies indicate the importance of policy reform to support sustainable healthcare-community collaborations.

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    In CPIC, sub-group analyses and follow-up studies at 12 and 36 months support some significant beneficial effects of CEP over RS, with main effects seen predominantly during the first 6 months post-intervention and diminishing over time.

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    In Hankerson et al., 19.7% of 122 community members screened at three predominantly African American Christian mega churches reported moderate depression (PHQ-9 ≥ 10), which the authors noted is higher than is seen in African American community samples.

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    • cites [38] Hankerson SH, Lee YA, Brawley DK, Braswell K, Wickramaratne PJ, Weissman MM. Screening for depression in African-American churches. Am J Prev Med. 2015;49:526–33. source

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    A 2015 Cochrane review described three assumptions that underlie community interventions: awareness of multiple forces at all social-ecological levels, investment in community participation, and prioritization of community mental health and social outcomes.

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    Both CPIC and the London EIS study suggest the importance of resources to sustain lasting change.

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    Housing First yields quicker and more sustained housing retention compared to continuum housing approaches.

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    In the Canadian At Home/Chez Moi RCT, participants in Housing First compared with usual care more quickly entered housing (within 73 vs. 220 days), retained housing for longer durations (281 vs. 115 days), and rated the quality of their housing more positively at 2-year follow-up.

    “participants in Housing First, compared with usual care, more quickly entered housing (within 73 vs. 220 days), retained housing for longer durations (281 vs. 115 days), and rated the quality of their housing more positively at 2-year follow-up”
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    In the Head Start REDI RCT, children in the intervention versus control group were significantly more likely to follow optimal developmental trajectories in social behavior, aggressive-oppositional behavior, learning engagement, attention problems, student-teacher closeness, and peer rejection.

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    In CTC versus control communities, results showed improved individual outcomes at eighth grade: reduced substance use, delinquency, and violence; later initiation of alcohol use, tobacco use, and delinquency; and lower prevalence of risky behaviors.

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    Barnett et al.'s 2018 review of lay health worker interventions describes that LHWs elevate demand for services by increasing awareness of services and mental health literacy and by reducing stigma and barriers to care.

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    In the South Africa child abuse prevention study, there were significant improvements in social outcomes: reduced child abuse (63.0% to 29.5%, p < .001), reduced adolescent delinquency/aggressive behavior, reduced witnessed violence by adolescents, improved positive and involved parenting, and improved social support.

    “The study yielded significant improvements in social outcomes: reduced child abuse (63.0% to 29.5%, p < .001), reduced adolescent delinquency/aggressive behavior, reduced witnessed violence by adolescents, improved positive and involved parenting (adolescent and caregiver self-report), and improved social support (adolescent and caregiver self-report).”
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    In the South Africa study, there were significant improvements in mental health outcomes: decreased caregiver substance use, reduced adolescent and caregiver depression, and reduced parenting stress.

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    Cilliers et al. found that truth and reconciliation commissions yielded improvements in societal healing but worsened individuals' health (worsened psychological health, depression, anxiety, and PTSD).

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    In Washington State, 12 months post-implementation, 81% of the expedited Medicaid group and 43% of the services as usual group were enrolled in Medicaid (p < .01).

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    Unexpectedly, a significantly greater proportion of the intervention versus comparison group spent any days in jail (43 vs. 34%, p < .01) and state prison (56% vs. 46%, p < .01), with no significant difference in the proportion with any arrests (59% vs. 54%).

    “Unexpectedly, there was a significantly greater proportion of those in the intervention versus comparison group that spent any days in jail (43 vs. 34%, p < .01) and state prison (56% vs. 46%, p < .01), with no significant difference in the proportion with any arrests (59% vs. 54%) at follow-up.”
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    Nearly 40% of jail and prison inmates self-report a history of mental illness, and this prevalence is higher among those with more arrests and time served in a correctional facility.

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    In Patel et al.'s RCT, at 3 months, HAP participants demonstrated significantly reduced depression symptom severity, suicidal ideation, disability, days out of work, and intimate partner violence and significantly higher rates of depression remission and improved behavioral activation compared to the EUC group.

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    Qualitative interviews indicated that improved family well-being, reduced marital stress and conflict, and women's increased freedom of movement and decision-making power contributed to the decrease in violence.

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    Thrive NYC is an example of large-scale action to promote mental health at the civic level, with a budget of $850 million and 54 initiatives across all public agencies and departments, with special emphases on community partnerships and prevention.

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    The expertise of community leaders and other stakeholders can be integrated equitably with that of researchers with trust, respect, and two-way knowledge exchange.

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    Similar studies in Kenya's cash transfer program for at-risk youth and a cluster RCT of greening urban vacant land both showed significant improvements in depression outcomes compared to control communities.

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    By age 21, CTC versus control communities showed increased likelihood of lifetime abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use (ARR 1.49; 95% CI 1.03, 2.16), increased abstinence from antisocial behavior (ARR 1.18, 95% CI 1.02, 1.37), and decreased lifetime incidence of violence (ARR 0.89, 95% CI 0.79, 0.99).

    “By age 21, CTC vs. control communities showed increased likelihood of lifetime abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use (ARR 1.49; 95% CI 1.03, 2.16), increased abstinence from antisocial behavior (ARR 1.18, 95% CI 1.02, 1.37), and decreased lifetime incidence of violence (ARR 0.89, 95% CI 0.79, 0.99).”
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    Lay health worker interventions extend access and increase acceptability of mental health services by leveraging trusted relationships.

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    Fewer CTC results persisted to age 19 (greater lifetime abstinence from antisocial behavior; greater lifetime abstinence from drug use and violence in male but not female participants).

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    Policies as varied as mental health insurance parity, assisted outpatient treatment statutes, quality metrics for social determinants of health, value-based payment reforms, and the integration of funds and services for health and social care have the potential to improve access to treatment and improve outcomes.

    “Policies as varied as mental health insurance parity, assisted outpatient treatment statutes, quality metrics for social determinants of health, value-based payment reforms, and the integration of funds and services for health and social care have the potential to improve access to treatment and improve outcomes”
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    The studies selected for this review are representative of recent community interventions in the seven topic areas.

    “We highlight major developments and trends, rather than providing a comprehensive systematic review.”
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    Community-based organizations, social services, and healthcare agencies have different funding streams and incentives.

    “Community-based organizations, social services, and healthcare agencies also have different funding streams and incentives.”
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  • Some health and social domains such as education, housing, nutrition, and healthcare have pervasive influence on low income settings, while lack of supportive environments and community networks may have more detrimental effects in urban areas with high population density or ethnic minorities.

    “some health and social domains such as education, housing, nutrition, and healthcare, have pervasive influence on low income settings, while lack of supportive environments and community networks may have more detrimental effects in urban areas with high population density or ethnic minorities [50, 51]”

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  1. World Health Organization. Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization, as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19–22 June 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April 1948. WHO, Geneva. 1948.
  2. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Permanent supportive housing: evaluating the evidence for improving health outcomes among people experiencing chronic homelessness. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press; 2018.
  3. Bronson J, Berzofsky M. Indicators of mental health problems reported by prisoners and jail inmates, 2011–2012, 1–17. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice; 2017.

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Authors
Castillo, E. G., Ijadi-Maghsoodi, R., Shadravan, S., Moore, E., Mensah, M. O., Docherty, M., Aguilera Nunez, M. G., Barcelo, N., Goodsmith, N., Halpin, L. E., Morton, I., Mango, J., Montero, A. E., Rahmanian Koushkaki, S., Bromley, E., Chung, B., Jones, F., Gabrielian, S., Gelberg, L., Greenberg, J. M., Kalofonos, I., Kataoka, S. H., Miranda, J., Pincus, H. A., Zima, B. T., & Wells, K. B.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • New York State Psychiatric Institute (US)
  • RAND Corporation (US)
  • Healthy African American Families II (US)
Corresponding author
Castillo, Enrico G.
Venue
Current Psychiatry Reports
Published
2019-03-29
Volume
21
Issue
5
Pages
35-35
ISSN
  • 1523-3812 (ISSN-L)
  • 1535-1645
OpenAlex
W2927051625
Cited by
387
References
119
Citations by year
2026: 53 · 2025: 105 · 2024: 64 · 2023: 61 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 19
FWCI
4.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Current Psychiatry Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (K12DA000357)
  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01MD007721)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Community Health and Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
Keywords
community-based intervention, mental health promotion, social equity, socio-ecological model, intersectoral collaboration, collaborative care, early psychosis, school-based intervention, homelessness, criminal justice, global mental health, social determinants of health, interpersonal relationships, community-based services
MeSH terms
Community Medicine, Health Promotion, Humans, Mental Health, Psychotic Disorders, Schools, Social Environment

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