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Critical Time Intervention–Task Shifting Study, 2012-2016

This multi-country pilot of an adapted CTI (CTI-TS) in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Santiago in Chile, and Buenos Aires in Argentina is the first RCT of the CTI model in Latin America. CTI-TS includes peer support workers in addition to community mental health workers, which have been used in previously tested versions of CTI. The primary outcomes of this pilot RCT are to improve quality of life and reduce unmet needs. Among the secondary outcomes is to improve the social integration of the participants.

Critical Time Intervention-Brazil, 2010

This pilot study recruited 19 people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders served by the Psychosocial Service Centers (CAPS) in Rio de Janeiro to test the feasibility of implementing an adapted CTI for the Brazilian context. The problems of violence, drug use and unemployment in Rio’s favelas are concrete obstacles to continuity of mental health care.