Longitudinal Remote Coaching for Implementation of Perinatal Collaborative Care: A Mixed-Methods Analysis

Amritha Bhat1, Ian M Bennett1, Amy M Bauer1

  • 1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Bhat, Bennett, Bauer, Unützer) and Department of Family Medicine (Bennett), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Psychiatry (Beidas), Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy (Beidas), and Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (Eriksen, Barg), Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Penn Implementation Science Center, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Beidas); Kaiser Permanente Northwest Center for Health Research, Portland, Oregon (Gold). Benjamin G. Druss, M.D., M.P.H., and Gail Daumit, M.D., M.H.S., are editors of this column.

The collaborative care model (CoCM) is a multicomponent, team-based integrated behavioral health framework. Its effectiveness in the treatment of perinatal depression is established, but implementation has been limited. The authors used longitudinal remote coaching (LRC) as a novel implementation strategy to support systematic case review in a multistate cluster-randomized trial of CoCM for perinatal depression. They describe LRC for perinatal CoCM in three clinics and use of a mixed-methods analysis of data from LRC feedback forms and interviews with participants. LRC is a scalable implementation strategy with potential to support complex models of integrated behavioral health, such as perinatal CoCM.