NIAAA
Family-focused vs. Drinker-focused Smartphone Interventions to Reduce Drinking-related Consequences of COVID-19
This project is a Hybrid II RCT/implementation study modifying and testing two of our alcohol smartphone interventions to address the fallout from COVID. This work is an extension of our evidence-based Addiction–Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support system (ACHESS), augmented with COVID resources.
Chukka Auchaffi’ Natana: The Weaving Healthy Families Program to Promote Wellness and Resilience and Prevent Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence
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.
Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: Alcohol-related Disparities
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.
Rural Southern Contexts and Pathways to Black Men's Alcohol Use and Abuse: A Ten-Year Prospective Analysis
Among rural Black men, we hypothesize that alcohol use may accelerate the spread of SARS CoV-2 settings and interactions in which they may be likely to become infected or to infect others.