The Community Mental Health Evaluation Initiative (CMHEI) is a longitudinal, multisite study of community mental health programs in Ontario. Participating programs include assertive community treatment, intensive case management, brokerage case management, consumer self-help and family self-help.

Data collection includes a comprehensive consumer assessment administered at three points in time: baseline (FU0), nine months (FU1), and 18 months (FU2). The assessed consumers may be new program users, users already enrolled in programs, or ill relatives of users of family self-help.

Six projects or sites are involved in this multisite study, and available data sources vary. As a result, a core set of data are collected about the consumers from every project, and then additional modules (e.g., self-report data) are administered where possible.

Projects are classified into three groupings:

• CM – Projects evaluating service programs such as case management
• CSI – Projects evaluating consumer/survivor initiatives
• FAM – Projects evaluating family initiatives

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Modules

Status Modules

• Collected by all sites
• Instruments include: Demographic Information, Employment Log, Financial Log, Hospitalization Log, Residential Log

Service Use Modules

• Collected by all sites
• Instruments include: Psychiatrist Visits Log, Non-Psychiatrist Visit Log, Emergency Room Visit Log, Prescribed Psychotropic Medication Log

Self-Report Modules

• Collected by case management and consumer initiative sites
• Instruments include: Social Support Scale, Empowerment Scale, Quality of Life Scale, Symptom Distress Scale

Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)

• Collected by case management sites
• Instruments include: BPRS–18, BPRS-24

Proxy Modules

• Collected by case management sites
• Instruments include: Alcohol Use Scale (AUS), Drug Use Scale (DUS), Substance Abuse Treatment Scale, Multnomah Community Ability Scale

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Manuals

• CMHEI Baseline Merged Dataset Code Book
• CM Instruction Manual (baseline and follow-up)
• CSI Instruction Manual (baseline and follow-up)
• Family Instruction Manual (baseline and follow-up)

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CMHEI Newsletter Articles

• "Featured Tool: Empowerment Scale" (July 1999)
• "Featured Tool: Multnomah Community Ability Scale" (May 2000)
• "Featured Tool: Client Contact Log" (July 2001)