Complete the Qualitative Mock Study – The Interview Protocol

Complete the Qualitative Mock Study – The Interview Protocol

1.1  Interview Specifics

Time of Interview: N/A

Date: N/A

Place (in person, Zoom, etc.): In person

Interviewer (your name): Name

Participant(s)/Interviewee(s): N/A

1.2  Position of Participants/Interviewees

The target population for the project is healthcare professionals. To be included as a participant in the study, one must be a healthcare professional. Likewise, they must have worked in a healthcare setting, handling persons with mental healthcare illnesses. This may be a mental healthcare facility, a long-term care facility for patients with mental health illnesses, a nursing home, or a hospital with the capacity to treat persons with mental health illnesses. The included candidates must also have more than one year of experience handling patients with mental health illnesses. This is to ensure that responses accurately represent the actual position of the community on experiences with mental healthcare and mental healthcare resources. The included candidates must also be of different cadres. These include nurses, physicians, pharmacists, and social workers. This is to give a comprehensive picture of the status of mental health care and utilization of mental healthcare resources within the community.

1.3  Project Description

The purpose of the project is to understand and describe the perspectives and experiences of healthcare professionals regarding mental healthcare services among ethnic minority groups. Mental healthcare illnesses remain a global health concern. These illnesses cause significant suffering among affected persons and have been implicated in increased morbidity and mortality. They are also a reason for the escalating cost of healthcare (Arias et al., 2022). In the US, mental health illnesses affect 1 in every 5 American adults (Kessler et al., 2022). Harris County has not been left behind. Mental health illnesses affect over 400,000 people. With the increasing prevalence of mental health disorders across the US and globally, many people are expected to be impacted by these illnesses. This warrants efforts to address the problems.

Quality improvements in mental healthcare have long focused on expanding access to mental healthcare. Vacher et al. (2023) note that enhancing access to mental healthcare for all communities is a priority quality improvement measure in the resolve to enhance mental healthcare. Efforts to enhance the accessibility of mental healthcare and mental health resources have been successful in increasing awareness of mental health illnesses and the resources required to deliver high-quality mental healthcare. Notwithstanding, access to mental healthcare remains a challenge in some communities. Snowden et al. (2022) note that ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by poor access to mental healthcare. In these communities, poor access to mental healthcare is compounded by traditional problems such as poverty, lack of insurance coverage, and poor health literacy that influence healthcare-seeking and health behaviors. Likewise, social factors within ethnic minority communities, such as perceptions of mental healthcare, also contribute to poor access to mental healthcare within the community (Eylem et al., 2020).

Addressing factors that interplay in poor access to mental healthcare is integral to quality improvement. While efforts have been directed towards interrogating community and individual-specific factors, healthcare professionals also have a role in pursuing better mental healthcare. The problem is that the perspectives and experiences of healthcare professionals on mental healthcare services, including the utilization of mental healthcare resources, have been underexplored (Gelaye & Andualem, 2022). This results in poor access to mental healthcare, as the underlying factors contributing to mental healthcare and mental health resource utilization remain under-addressed. The project provides a pathway for identifying caregivers’ perspectives and experiences on mental healthcare. These findings may allow an understanding of system-level factors interplaying in poor access to mental healthcare and subsequently inform specific address measures.

1.4  Research Question Guiding Your Mock Study

1.5  What are your experiences handling ethnic minority groups with mental healthcare illnesses? What are your perspectives on the state of mental healthcare and mental health utilization among ethnic minority groups?

1.6  Interview Questions

1. Can you talk about mental health awareness among healthcare professionals?
2. What are your thoughts on the current state of mental healthcare within the Harris County community?
3. What are your experiences with handling mental health patients from ethnic minority groups?
4. Do you think there are underlying, community-specific factors influencing mental healthcare and mental health resource utilization among ethnic minority groups?
5. How can you describe mental health patients from ethnic minority groups in terms of their healthcare seeking, perceptions of mental healthcare, and mental healthcare resource utilization within the county?
6. Do you think ethnic minority groups, such as Hispanics, Blacks, and Asian Americans, receive appropriate mental healthcare?
7. What are your perspectives on the state of mental healthcare and mental health utilization among ethnic minority groups?
8. Are there specific areas that you think can be prioritized to improve mental healthcare among ethnic minority groups?

1.7  Closing Message to Participant

Healthcare professionals remain integral to quality improvement fronts in mental healthcare. Their position in the healthcare landscape and their engagements with the patients and communities put them in a better position to understand patients’ specific factors that interplay in their health-seeking. To improve mental healthcare across ethnic minority groups, healthcare professionals play a role in informing population-specific measures that can be used to address poor access to mental healthcare. By providing your input on the interview questions, you will advance your current knowledge of mental healthcare access across underserved communities. Likewise, you will contribute to quality improvement efforts in mental healthcare across ethnic minority groups. It is thus imperative that you participate in the research.

 References

Arias, D., Saxena, S., & Verguet, S. (2022). Quantifying the global burden of mental disorders and their economic value. eClinicalMedicine, 54, 101675. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101675

Eylem, O., de Wit, L., van Straten, A., Steubl, L., Melissourgaki, Z., Danışman, G. T., de Vries, R., Kerkhof, A. J., Bhui, K., & Cuijpers, P. (2020). Stigma for common mental disorders in racial minorities and majorities a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08964-3

Gelaye, H., & Andualem, A. (2022). Quality of life and associated factors among family caregivers of individuals with psychiatric illness at DRH, South Wollo, Ethiopia, 2020. Scientific Reports, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22015-4

Kessler, R. C., Chiu, W. T., Hwang, I. H., Puac-Polanco, V., Sampson, N. A., Ziobrowski, H. N., & Zaslavsky, A. M. (2022). Changes in the prevalence of mental illness among us adults compared with before the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 45(1), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2021.11.013

Snowden, L. R., Cordell, K., & Bui, J. (2022). Racial and ethnic disparities in health status and community functioning among persons with untreated mental illness. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 10(5), 2175–2184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-022-01397-1

Vacher, C., Skinner, A., Occhipinti, J., Rosenberg, S., Ho, N., Song, Y. J., & Hickie, I. B. (2023). Improving access to Mental Health Care: A system dynamics model of direct access to specialist care and accelerated specialist service capacity growth. Medical Journal of Australia, 218(7), 309–314. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51903

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As we have explored so far in this course, interviews are often used as primary data collection tools in qualitative research. An interview protocol is a tool that researchers use to conduct participant interviews. Using an interview protocol can help ensure standardized procedures are followed.

Complete the Qualitative Mock Study Worksheet Part 3 – The Interview Protocol.

Qualitative Mock Study Worksheet Part 3 – The Interview Protocol

Use your qualitative mock study topic to complete the following interview protocol. Be sure to complete all sections unless they are marked with N/A. Insert your responses in each section below.

Interview Specifics

Time of Interview: N/A

Date: N/A

Place (in person, Zoom, etc.):

Interviewer (your name):

Participant(s)/Interviewee(s): N/A

Position of Participants/Interviewees

Describe the key interview inclusion criteria for your potential participant(s).

Project Description

Describe your project using basic language your participant(s) will understand.

Research Question Guiding your Mock Study

Write the research question that is guiding your mock study.

Interview Questions

Write 8-10 questions interview questions.

Closing Message to Participant