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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2018 Jan:64:22-29.
doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2017.11.010. Epub 2017 Nov 21.

Reducing depressive symptoms through behavioral activation in churches: A Hybrid-2 randomized effectiveness-implementation design

Tiffany Haynes  1 , Jerome Turner  2 , Johnny Smith  3 , Geoffrey Curran  4 , Keneshia Bryant-Moore  5 , Songthip T Ounpraseuth  6 , Teresa Kramer  7 , Kimberly Harris  8 , Ellen Hutchins  9 , Karen Hye-Cheon Kim Yeary  10
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Reducing depressive symptoms through behavioral activation in churches: A Hybrid-2 randomized effectiveness-implementation design

Tiffany Haynes et al. Contemp Clin Trials. 2018 Jan.

Abstract

Rural African Americans are disproportionately exposed to numerous stressors such as poverty that place them at risk for experiencing elevated levels of depressive symptoms. Effective treatments for decreasing depressive symptoms exist, but rural African Americans often fail to receive adequate and timely care. Churches have been used to address physical health outcomes in rural African American communities, but few have focused primarily on addressing mental health outcomes. Our partnership, consisting of faith community leaders and academic researchers, adapted an evidence-based behavioral activation intervention for use with rural African American churches. This 8-session intervention was adapted to include faith-based themes, Scripture, and other aspects of the rural African American faith culture (e.g. bible studies) This manuscript describes a Hybrid-II implementation trial that seeks to test the effectiveness of the culturally adapted evidence-based intervention (Renewed and Empowered for the Journey to Overcome in Christ: REJOICE) and gather preliminary data on the strategies necessary to support the successful implementation of this intervention in 24 rural African American churches. This study employs a randomized one-way crossover cluster design to assess effectiveness in reducing depressive symptoms and gather preliminary data regarding implementation outcomes, specifically fidelity, associated with 2 implementation strategies: training only and training+coaching calls. This project has the potential to generate knowledge that will lead to improvements in the provision of mental health interventions within the rural African American community. Further, the use of the Hybrid-II design has the potential to advance our understanding of strategies that will support the implementation of and sustainability of mental health interventions within rural African American faith communities.

Trial registration: NCT02860741. Registered August 5, 2016.

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