Digital peer-supervision platform for community mental health providers
A novel digital platform for measurement-based peer supervision of non-specialist providers conducting brief psychological interventions
['FUNDING_SBIR_2'] · DIMAGI, INC. · NIH-11184516
This project builds a digital tool that helps community health workers record, rate, and review short counseling sessions so people with anxiety and other common mental health concerns get more consistent support.
Quick facts
| Phase | ['FUNDING_SBIR_2'] |
|---|---|
| Study type | Nih_funding |
| Sex | All |
| Sponsor | DIMAGI, INC. (nih funded) |
| Locations | 1 site (CAMBRIDGE, UNITED STATES) |
| Trial ID | NIH-11184516 on ClinicalTrials.gov |
What this research studies
If you get brief counseling from a community health worker, this project aims to help those workers improve by giving them a secure app to record sessions, rate quality using a proven checklist, and discuss cases with peers in moderated groups. The platform is designed for non-specialist providers who deliver short psychosocial interventions in places with few specialists. The team already showed the idea was acceptable and usable in Phase I and will now enhance the platform and test it with providers working directly in communities. The work focuses on measurement-based peer supervision to raise care quality and make mental health support more widely available.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal candidates are people receiving brief psychosocial care from community non-specialist providers—and the non-specialist providers themselves—especially those with anxiety or common stress-related problems in underserved communities.
Not a fit: People who need specialized psychiatric care for severe mental illness, active suicidal crises, or complex psychiatric conditions are unlikely to benefit directly from this intervention.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, the platform could raise the consistency and quality of brief mental health care delivered by non-specialist providers, expanding access to effective support in underserved areas.
How similar studies have performed: Phase I work showed the digital approach was acceptable and usable, and measurement-based supervision has promising prior evidence, but fully digital peer-supervision at scale is still relatively new.
Where this research is happening
CAMBRIDGE, UNITED STATES
- DIMAGI, INC. — CAMBRIDGE, UNITED STATES (ACTIVE)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: HO, Y. XIAN — DIMAGI, INC.
- Study coordinator: HO, Y. XIAN
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
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