Co-Leads: Rachel Davis-Martin, Bengisu Tulu; Collaborator: Sharon Johnson, Daniel Mullen

Implementing Computerized Adaptive Tests for Mental Health Screening in Primary Care (CATS-PC) applies a person-centered design approach to optimize effective primary care clinical workflow integration of multidimensional computerized adaptive tests (CATS) for identifying and tracking mental health symptoms and suicide risk and guiding intervention delivery.

Through key informant interviews across the country in diverse clinical settings, we will (1) identify effective approaches to implementing computerized adaptive tests (CATS), specifically the CAT-MHTM, for mental health and suicide screening in clinical workflows and understand barriers to implementation. Feedback from these interviews will be used to create workflow designs and results displays for (2) user testing in a simulated clinical environment with standardized patient encounters. The workflow and results display indicated as most acceptable will then be (3) piloted in one integrated primary care for real-world testing. Following this pilot of CAT-MHTM, we will evaluate the feasibility of EHR integrated CAT-MHTM workflows and create a deployment package with implementation tools and considerations for practices that want to deploy CATS to replace existing mental health screeners.

Additional information about CATS-PC is available on NIH RePORTER.