This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $333,564 to New York University (NYU) School of Medicine to develop, test the feasibility, and assess the costing of a routine outcome monitoring dashboard called MARBAR-Africa for improving psychotherapy outcomes in public health clinics in Kenya.
The key objectives include: 1) adapting and extending the MARBAR system developed in Ecuador to clinics in Kisumu and Nairobi, Kenya; 2) conducting a 6-month pilot study to test the feasibility, cost, efficacy, and sustainability of using MARBAR-Africa; and 3) exploring the trajectories of distress, functioning, and quality of life of study participants to identify characteristics of successfully treated patients. The project aims to optimize mental health treatment in Kenya and establish sustainable demonstration sites for clinical excellence that can inform neighboring East African countries. The grant period runs from Sep 1, 2024 to Jul 31, 2026.
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