Goal #2: To Improve the Quality of Mental Healthcare by Elucidating the Impact of Mental Health Stigma on Ethnic Minority Groups
Mental health stigmatization impedes quality mental healthcare among ethnic minority groups. This is because stigmatization reduces the adoption of mental healthcare resources and diminishes individuals’ health-seeking behaviour among ethnic minority groups (Eylem et al., 2020). As a quality improvement measure, lessening mental health stigma will increase the adoption of mental healthcare resources and enhance individuals’ and communities’ health-seeking behaviour. The individual metrics used in measuring and evaluating this goal include the elucidation of the impact of mental health stigma among ethnic minority groups and the determination of how to lessen the stigma in these communities.
Objective #1: To Elucidate the Impact of Mental Health Stigma on Ethnic Minority Groups
A literature search yields the specific effects of stigmatization of mental health illnesses on people with these illnesses. This objective can be attained through a literature review on the impact of mental health disorders on the sufferers. This review emphasizes the need to address mental health stigma as it highlights the patient-level effects of mental health stigma. Metrics that demonstrate that this objective is met include the identification of patient-level impacts of mental health stigmatization in ethnic minority communities.
Objective #2: To Address Mental Health Stigma as a Quality Compromise in Mental Healthcare
Mental health stigma is a source of quality compromise in mental healthcare. Interventions that lessen stigmatization improve the adoption of mental healthcare resources and improve health-seeking behavior (Javed et al., 2021). The indices that can be used to evaluate this objective include verbalization of mental health illnesses among ethnic minority groups, increased adoption of the available mental healthcare resources, and an increase in the number of people seeking mental healthcare.
Goal #3: To Implement Project Recommendations
Research findings will inform aspects of quality improvement in mental healthcare. Understanding the impact of mental health stigma will necessitate the establishment of measures to address the identified barriers to mental healthcare. Additionally, understanding the barriers to mental healthcare will provide the framework for quality improvement. To accomplish this, the provisions of this program will have to be relayed to the stakeholders.
Objective #1: Communicating the Program Provisions to the Stakeholders
The identified stakeholders required for implementing the program include healthcare providers, healthcare agencies, governments, and healthcare organizations. Their role is to implement the provisions of the program. This objective will be met when all the stakeholders verbalize the impact of mental health stigma on ethnic minority groups and how to address mental health stigma in these communities.
Evaluation of the Project’s Financial Aspects
Quality improvement initiatives in healthcare often fetch considerable healthcare costs. The full implementation of the project is expected to cost around 2,500 dollars. The financial aspects of the program will be evaluated for return on investment (ROI) and cost-effectiveness. The program will be worth the investment if the stakeholders adopt its recommendations. This is expected to be projected in ethnic minority communities. Specific indices that will demonstrate the effectiveness of the program at the community level and subsequent ROI include cost savings from lowered morbidity associated with poor healthcare-seeking on mental health illnesses, increased revenue to healthcare organizations due to increases in the number of people seeking mental healthcare, and increased utilization of the available mental health resources.
The cost-effectiveness of the program can be evaluated from the stakeholder’s standpoint. The feasibility and applicability of this program’s recommendations will help determine its cost-effectiveness. In this respect, the program is expected to produce recommendations that are easy to implement and compatible with current practices. Accordingly, this is to make change management easy and increase the adoption of the change provisions. The program will be cost-effective if its adoption is high and the recommendations are agreeable among the stakeholders.
Data Analysis and Utilization
Scholarly projects are often centered around solving current clinical problems. This DNP project is set to provide a quality improvement framework in mental healthcare by highlighting the impacts of mental health stigmatization. Findings from this program will be analyzed through the cluster analytic technique. Th