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Positive Minds Strong Bodies Implementation
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
Summary
This study aims to address treatment and service disparities and prevent disability among racial/ethnic and linguistic minority elders. It tests the effectiveness and implementation readiness of the Positive Minds-Strong Bodies Enhanced intervention (PMSB-E), a combined mental and physical health intervention designed to be implemented in low-resource community settings. This renewal grant project includes a streamlined intervention with new components designed to improve and maintain participant outcomes.
Official title: Building Community Capacity for Disability Prevention for Minority Elders - Renewal
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
60 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
427
Start Date
2021-02-11
Completion Date
2024-10-31
Last Updated
2026-04-21
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Positive Minds Strong Bodies Enhanced
The Positive Minds Strong Bodies Enhanced intervention (PMSB-E) was designed to provide a single, integrated program that could address the dual challenges of mental health and disability among minority elders. PMSB-E seeks to improve mood symptoms, identify and correct negative distortions or cognitions, promote behavioral activation through engaging the participant in pleasant activities, and encourage developing supportive relationships. All sessions are tailored to the participant's needs using a collaborative approach.
Enhanced Usual Care
Participants in this arm will receive a booklet about anxiety and depression in Spanish, English, or Mandarin/Cantonese. Research staff will call the participant 4 times over the course of 6 months to administer mental health items, a suicide questionnaire, and a question about medication side effects to mimic the administration schedule in the intervention group.
Locations (1)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States