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The CRANIUM model was developed using the Behavior Change Wheel framework to engage community psychiatrists in expanding their scope of practice to include cardiovascular disease risk screening and treatment for patients with severe mental illness.
The CRANIUM model offers a theory-driven framework for integrating cardiovascular disease prevention into specialty mental health settings.
May inform integration of CVD risk management into psychiatric care for SMI; leaves open real-world feasibility and outcomes.
BACKGROUND: Individuals with severe mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder) die 10-25 years earlier than the general population, primarily from premature cardiovascular disease (CVD). Contributing factors are complex, but include systemic-related factors of poorly integrated primary care and mental health services. Although evidence-based models exist for integrating mental health care into primary care settings, the evidence base for integrating medical care into specialty mental health settings is limited. Such models are referred to as "reverse" integration. In this paper, we describe the application of an implementation science framework in designing a model to improve CVD outcomes for individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) who receive services in a community mental health setting. METHODS: Using principles from the theory of planned behavior, focus groups were conducted to understand stakeholder perspectives of barriers to CVD risk factor screening and treatment identify potential target behaviors. We then applied results to the overarching Behavior Change Wheel framework, a systematic and theory-driven approach that incorporates the COM-B model (capability, opportunity, motivation, and behavior), to build an intervention to improve CVD risk factor screening and treatment for people with SMI. RESULTS: Following a stepped approach from the Behavior Change Wheel framework, a model to deliver primary preventive care for people that use community mental health settings as their de facto health home was developed. The CRANIUM (cardiometabolic risk assessment and treatment through a novel integration model for underserved populations with mental illness) model focuses on engaging community psychiatrists to expand their scope of practice to become responsible for CVD risk, with significant clinical decision support. CONCLUSION: The CRANIUM model was designed by integrating behavioral change theory and implementation theory. CRANIUM is feasible to implement, is highly acceptable to, and targets provider behavior change, and is replicable and efficient for helping to integrate primary preventive care services in community mental health settings. CRANIUM can be scaled up to increase CVD preventive care delivery and ultimately improve health outcomes among people with SMI served within a public mental health care system.
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Mangurian et al. (2017) studied Severe mental illness (n=29). CRANIUM model (cardiometabolic risk assessment and treatment through a novel integration model) was evaluated. The CRANIUM model was developed using the Behavior Change Wheel framework to engage community psychiatrists in expanding their scope of practice to include cardiovascular disease risk screening and treatment for patients with severe mental illness.
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