Stephen Schueller
University of California-Irvine, CA·Psychology
Spanish-speaking Latinx patients with limited English proficiency often go a long time without treatment for depression and anxiety. Latinx patients are about half as likely as white patients to receive quality, evidence-based care, even though primary care providers recommend treatment at the same rates.
- Fields
Psychology
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
depression
anxiety
digital mental health
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jun 2027
What they work on
- Test whether digital cognitive behavioral therapy delivered with peer support improves depression and anxiety outcomes compared with the same platform used alone, among Spanish-speaking Latinx patients in safety-net primary care.
- Compare outreach to patients through a clinic patient registry with inreach by traditional provider referral, using provider-level randomization in a Type 2 effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial.
- Generate implementation data on which strategies for delivering a digital mental health platform are most likely to be adopted and sustained in under-resourced clinics serving Medicaid and uninsured patients.
More about the research
Many of these patients get care in safety-net clinics, which are public systems serving people on Medicaid or without insurance. These clinics have too few Spanish-speaking mental health clinicians. Digital treatments delivered through the internet and mobile phones could help close this gap, but in the United States few patients can access them, and use is often low.
Why it matters
Low-resource clinics often lack Spanish-speaking mental health professionals. If peer-supported digital therapy proves effective, safety-net primary care systems could offer evidence-based treatment for depression and anxiety to Spanish-speaking Latinx patients at scale. This would rely less on scarce clinicians and could help narrow a long-standing gap in mental health care for underserved communities.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
University of California-Irvine: 46 labs on PI Pages, $645M a year on research, 524 research doctorates a year.
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