Mental Health

To meet the critical mental health challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, this research will adapt and apply the Electronic Mental Wellness Tool (EmwT) that guides providers in screening patients for any mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs) and triaging patients to specific evidence-based treatments according to diagnostic categories.

This research will examine how significant disruptions to children’s health, education and overall well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic created lasting influence on health, development and social trajectories, and the risk for long-term health outcomes.

This project will integrate machine learning approaches and large-scale SSI research to rapidly test potent, accessible strategies for reducing adolescent major depression during COVID-19.

Digital mental health (DMH) interventions for PTSD address well-documented barriers to traditional in-person psychotherapy or telehealth delivery of evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for PTSD, but many consumers do not remain engaged. Thus, acceptable, efficient, and engaging forms of EBTs are sorely needed.

This project aims to examine how COVID-19 has affected American Indian/Alaskan Native communities, including changes in sleep, risk-taking behaviors, mental health, routines, behaviors, and family/community dynamics.

The overarching objective of this project is to rigorously assess how state-level COVID-19 mitigation policies have affected psychological health and related mortality from drug overdose and suicide among working age and older adults.

This project will use qualitative interviews to understand the following information about youth experiencing homelessness (YEH): their knowledge of and adherence to Covid-19 transmission reduction strategies, their mental health symptoms, their rates of having Covid-19 antibodies, and the relation between positive antibodies and adherence to Covid-19 transmission reduction strategies, mental health symptoms, and housing.

This project aims to identify mechanisms underlying gender, racial and ethnic minority, and sexual minority disparities in parenting stress and parental well-being during COVID and this period of intense racial trauma.

This project will focus on changes in drinking patterns, substance use, and mental health measures from before to during the COVID-19 restriction period, associations between drinking patterns and COVID-19 risk behaviors, and behavioral health care need, access and utilization with attention to racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities.

This project develops, estimates, and simulates a cutting-edge model of the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy responses to it.