SUD/MI

Family-focused vs. Drinker-focused Smartphone Interventions to Reduce Drinking-related Consequences of COVID-19

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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.

Testing Scalable, Single-Session Interventions for Adolescent Depression In the Context of COVID-19

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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.

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.

States' COVID-19 Mitigation Policies and Psychological Health, Drug Overdose, and Suicide among U.S. Adults

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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.

Come As You Are - Assessing the Efficacy of a Nurse Case Management HIV Prevention and Care Intervention among Homeless Youth

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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.

Unequal Parenthoods: Population Perspectives on Gender, Race and Sexual Minority Disparities in Family Stress and Health During Crises

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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.

Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems: Alcohol-related Disparities

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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.

Increasing Peer Support for OUD Recovery during COVID-19 through Digital Health: A National Randomized Controlled Trial

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This project uses a randomized controlled trial of a novel mobile peer support app platform among a national sample of 1300 patients in recovery from opioid use disorders (OUDs), as an adjunct to usual care, during COVID-19.

Availability, Accessibility, and Structure of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Maternal and Child Health Outcomes

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Using existing healthcare data, this study seeks to quantify the effects of healthcare system responses to COVID-19 on outcomes among pregnant and postpartum women with OUD and describe how COVID-19 infection influences morbidity among pregnant women with OUD.

Efficacy of a Healthy Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Depression in Older Spousally-bereaved Adults-Supplement

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This proposed Administrative Supplement aims to increase the reach, uptake, and sustainability of our existing behavioral-health intervention to accommodate older spouses bereaved by COVID-19 who are seeking prevention and self-management strategies to manage psychiatric symptoms both during and following the pandemic.