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Digital Technology to Support Adherence to Hypertension Medications for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

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Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is characterized by mild impairment in one or more cognitive functions and is associated with an increased risk for failure to take prescribed medications. Hypertension is prevalent among persons with MCI (PwMCI) and nonadherence to medications increases the risk of accelerated cognitive decline through cerebrovascular disease. Adherence is often only 46% or lower among PwMCI.

Tracing the Health Consequences of Family Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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This project fills this gap in the research creating a multidimensional contextual database linked to the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine the effects of the pandemic across generations of American families. The HRS and PSID have collected data on the health and well-being of individuals and their family members for decades.

Supplement: Long-term Effects of the Family Check-Up on Depression and Suicide Across Trials and Development

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The project will adapt and test the efficacy of the Family Check-Up Online as a treatment to foster resilient family functioning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Improving the Collaborative Health of Minority COVID-19 Survivor & Carepartner Dyads Through Interventions Targeting Social and Structural Health Inequities

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This study tests the efficacy of a telehealth-enhanced, RN-Community Health Worker delivered dyad intervention, ICINGS FAM, on quality of life, and health-related outcomes in vulnerable African American adults with pre-existing chronic illness and their informal care partners.

Chukka Auchaffi’ Natana: The Weaving Healthy Families Program to Promote Wellness and Resilience and Prevent Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence

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The overall objective of the project is to test the efficacy of the community-based, “Weaving Healthy Families program (WHF)”, which aims to prevent, reduce, and postpone the secondary health effects of COVID-19, while promoting resilience and wellness (including mental health) among Native American adults and youth.

COVID-19 Pandemic Among Low-Income Latino Families in an Agricultural Community: Financial, Occupational, and Mental and Physical Health Sequelae

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This project aims to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic primarily on farmworker families that have been exposed to the health sequelae of pesticide exposure over the life course from in utero to adulthood.

ABCD-USA Consortium: Research Project Site at CHLA

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This study leverages ABCD’s infrastructure, cohort, and existing protocol to rapidly characterize the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on each child in the study, including the impact on their families and communities.

Characterizing Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Development in the ABCD Cohort

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This study leverages the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) cohort to examine the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on developmental trajectories of brain functioning, cognition, substance use, academic achievement, social functioning, and physical and mental health in children.