Mental Health
Digital Technology to Support Adherence to Hypertension Medications for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
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.
Transcending COVID-19 Barriers to Pain Care in Rural America: Pragmatic Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Evidence-Based, On-Demand, Digital Behavioral Treatments For Chronic Pain
For people from the rural America with chronic diseases, the pandemic can not only worsen pain, but also it can trigger anxiety, depression, trouble sleeping, and substance use. One way doctors and health systems are reaching out is by video visits, where patients and their providers communicate online via the Internet.
Advancing Research on Mechanisms of Resilience (ARMOR): Prospective Longitudinal Study of Adaptation in New Military Recruits
The overarching goal of this study is to improve our understanding of resilience processes related to the economic, social, and personal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and their downstream mental health outcomes in National Guard soldiers.
Cognitive Control in Children of SUD Parents: A Longitudinal Multimodal MRI Study
Therefore, this Stress and COVID-19 (S&C) Study is designed to understand how COVID-19 is affecting substance use (SU) and mental health (MH) across different racial/ethnic communities.
Optimizing Access, Engagement and Assessment to Elucidate Prenatal Influences on Neurodevelopment: The Brains Begin Before Birth (B4) Midwest Consortium
This study enrolls pregnant and postpartum women into a multi-wave study to assess medical, economic, psychosocial and substance use risk across pregnancy and the perinatal period, studying associations of these factors to infant neurobehavioral development during the first year of life.
Planning for the HEALthy Early Development Study
This project will build on an existing national pregnancy cohort study of women with a wide range of underlying health conditions to address COVID-19 symptoms, testing and antibody status, as well as the behaviors of participants during the pandemic.
Testing of a Patient-Centered e-Health Implementation Model in Addiction Treatment
This project will enhance the ACHESS smartphone app with new COVID-19 related features and then examine how patients use ACHESS features, how organizations refer patients to the ACHESS, how they interact with patients in ACHESS, and the overall impact of the ACHESS features.
Policies on Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Mental Health and Healthcare Utilization
The goal of this study is to leverage, expand upon, and link existing national data sets to test the hypothesis that county-level public health and social policies have affected disparities in mental health and healthcare utilization.
Supplement: Long-term Effects of the Family Check-Up on Depression and Suicide Across Trials and Development
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.
Addressing Emotional Wellness Among COVID-19 Informal First-Responders: REJOICE-P
Given the specific need of pastors serving as informal first responders, this supplement seeks to refine the existing REJOICE intervention to provide pastors with skills to improve personal emotional wellness related to serving on the first-lines of the COVID-19 pandemic and build the capacity of pastors to adequately respond to the emotional needs of rural African Americans.