Adapting the Comprehensive Unit Safety Program (CUSP) implementation strategy to increase delivery of evidence-based cardiovascular risk factor care in community mental health organizations: protocol for a pilot study

Emma Elizabeth McGinty, David Thompson, Karly A Murphy, Elizabeth A Stuart, Nae-Yuh Wang, Arlene Dalcin, Elizabeth Mace, Joseph V Gennusa 3rd, Gail L Daumit, Emma Elizabeth McGinty, David Thompson, Karly A Murphy, Elizabeth A Stuart, Nae-Yuh Wang, Arlene Dalcin, Elizabeth Mace, Joseph V Gennusa 3rd, Gail L Daumit

Abstract

Background: People with serious mental illnesses (SMI) such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder experience excess mortality driven in large part by high rates of poorly controlled and under-treated cardiovascular risk factors. In the USA, integrated "behavioral health home" models in which specialty mental health organizations coordinate and manage physical health care for people with SMI are designed to improve guideline-concordant cardiovascular care for this group. Such models have been shown to improve cardiovascular care for clients with SMI in randomized clinical trials, but real-world implementation has fallen short. Key implementation barriers include lack of alignment of specialty mental health program culture and physical health care coordination and management for clients with SMI and lack of structured protocols for conducting effective physical health care coordination and management in the specialty mental health program context. This protocol describes a pilot study of an implementation intervention designed to overcome these barriers.

Methods: This pilot study uses a single-group, pre/post-study design to examine the effects of an adapted Comprehensive Unit Safety Program (CUSP) implementation strategy designed to support behavioral health home programs in conducting effective cardiovascular care coordination and management for clients with SMI. The CUSP strategy, which was originally designed to improve inpatient safety, includes provider training, expert facilitation, and implementation of a five-step quality improvement process. We will examine the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of the implementation strategy and how this strategy influences mental health organization culture; specialty mental health providers' self-efficacy to conduct evidence-based cardiovascular care coordination and management; and receipt of guideline-concordant care for hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes mellitus among people with SMI.

Discussion: While we apply CUSP to the implementation of evidence-based hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes care, this implementation strategy could be used in the future to support the delivery of other types of evidence-based care, such as smoking cessation treatment, in behavioral health home programs. CUSP is designed to be fully integrated into organizations, sustained indefinitely, and used to continually improve evidence-based practice delivery.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04696653 . Registered on January 6, 2021.

Keywords: Cardiovascular; Culture; Integrated care; Self-efficacy; Serious mental illness.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no competing interest to report.

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