Award
National Institute of Mental Health 5R01MH137074-03
Measuring What Matters-Patient Centered Outcome Measures of Goal-Directed Care for People with Serious Mental Illness
Recipient
RAND CORPORATION
Award Amount
$606,815.00
Ceiling
$606,815.00
Awarded
July 30, 2026
Identifier
5R01MH137074-03
Development and validation of person-centered outcome measures for goal-directed mental health care for serious mental illness, involving data collection from clinics and stakeholder engagement.
Description
This project involves developing and validating person-centered outcome measures for mental health care, collecting data from clinics, and engaging stakeholders including clinicians, administrators, and service users. The approach combines personalization of goals for individual service users with goal-attainment scaling to track progress in a standardized quantitative way. The project aims to assess the quality of goal-directed, person-centered mental health care for individuals with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.