Modern research, and the tools available to today's medical researchers, generate large, diverse, complex data sets. Our research communities have become a data-intense enterprise, representing everything from disease pathogenesis to information about trends, associations and connections between points of patient data. These studies represent some of the work being done as part of the NIH Social, Behavioral and Economic Impacts of COVID-19 initiative to produce findings and solutions from multiple sets of data in order to help understand and address the broader effects of the epidemic.
Reducing Stigma Among Healthcare Providers to Improve Mental Health Services (RESHAPE)
Our preliminary work suggests that reducing primary care workers' stigma against persons with mental illness may improve accurate detection of mental illness. We developed a version of mhGAP training that includes a stigma reduction component: “Reducing Stigma among Healthcare Providers” (RESHAPE).
Transdisciplinary Research, Equity and Engagement Center for Advancing Behavioral Health
This project will develop an innovative Transdisciplinary Research, Equity and Engagement Center for Advancing Behavioral Health (TREE Center) that will expand on the knowledge, research capacities and cross-sectoral collaborations established by the former NM CARES Health Disparities Center.
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.
Establishing the Science Behind Alzheimer's Recruitment Registries: Opportunities for Increasing Diversity and Accelerating Enrollment Into Trials
This project will examine how information sources on COVID-19 and the larger context of the pandemic influence older adults’ perceptions of scientific research and AD, adherence to recommended COVID-19 prevention behaviors, and whether these perceptions vary by racial/ethnic group.
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.
Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative
The overarching goals of the project are to (1) document impacts of relaxed restrictions for telemedicine and mHealth; and (2) assess implementation of MAT “take-homes” for people in substance use disorder treatment in rural, underserved, and minority communities in Arizona in the wake of COVID-19.
Determining Optimal Treatment Intensity for Children with Language Impairment (LI)
This project will determine the optimal treatment intensity for children with language impairment (LI), provided via telepractice platforms, and will investigate the moderating influence of the home environment on children’s outcomes.
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.