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Filter by:The intervention will focus on identifying risk factors for depression and anxiety and will quantitate the educational component of the POWER Obesity group intervention delivered by mental health professionals that are currently presenting for 30 min during the Monday session to address the root causes of obesity as well as to encourage positive lifestyle changes (e.g. sleep, diet, sun exposure, circadian rhythms, and addictions). The previously published hypothesis identifies triggers, that combined, could cause mental health problems. The 10 groups of triggers are: (1) Genetic, (2) Developmental, (3) Lifestyle, (4) Circadian Rhythm, (5) Addiction, (6) Nutrition, (7) Toxic, (8) Social/Complicated Grief, (9) Medical Condition, and (10) Frontal Lobe. Each of these factors will be dealt with in the lifestyle intervention. The project will be led by the assistant professor (in process) Francisco E Ramirez, MD with his mentor Theodore Friedman, MD, PhD supervising the project. Hypothesis: The investigators hypothesize that composite POWER Obesity group will have greater improvement in mental health compared to the dietitian-led group. Measuring outcomes: The intervention will take 1 year to recruit all the patients the investigators expect to have the 75 patients in the group intervention and 25 patients in the dietitian-led group. With these numbers, our preliminary power analysis suggests there will be a difference in the two groups with an alpha of .05 and 80% power. The investigators will add 3 tests to both arms of the study, 9-question Patient Health Questionnaire (PQ-9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), and the Depression and Anxiety Assessment Test, in the POWER Obesity group at 0, 3, 6 months and 12 months of intervention.
Social prescribing is a way of understanding the things that are important to a person and then using these to find groups and resources in their local community that can help them meet their goals and understand their problems. Social prescribing can be used with people who have physical health problems, mental health problems, social problems such as loneliness or financial/housing problems. The Welsh Government has supported the creation of these social prescribing services across Wales. However, the evidence showing that social prescribing is a good way of improving a person's well-being and quality of life is not very strong. This project is an evaluation of a new social prescribing service delivered by British Red Cross in two areas in Wales. British Red Cross have made a new social prescribing service, where a link worker works with a patient who has mild/moderate mental or emotional health problems, to understand their needs and set them goals for the future over 12 weeks of core support. The link worker will also help them find services in their local community that might help them achieve their goals. The study uses a waitlist trial, thus some participants will get to meet the link worker and have the intervention straight away, while others will have to wait for 20 working days. From this, the researchers can compare the people who had the intervention straight away with the people who had to wait. Scores on well-being and quality of life questionnaires will be used to see the effects of the intervention on participants.
Students are one of the most at-risk groups for mental illness and suicide. Up to 40% of persons with serious mental illnesses do not receive care or stop intervention programs due to negative stigma. Focusing on students, only 30% of universities provide mental health counseling as part of universities' student health services. There is an urgent need to better understand and manage the mental health burden among students. The investigators will use a mental health-focused application that utilizes artificial intelligence to identify symptoms and provides targeted, tailored in-person therapy solutions for its users. Once a patient is matched with a therapist, the application provides solutions to supplement ongoing in-person psychotherapy. This includes journaling and daily assessments that provide curated content and feedback. The current feasibility study aims to recruit 45 Johns Hopkins graduate students with at least mild depressive and/or anxiety symptoms who will be consented and enrolled in a five-week study. There are two study arms: (1) the intervention arm and (2) a waitlist control arm. During the course of the study, the participants in the intervention arm will use the application daily. Participants will receive weekly in-person psychotherapy for a total of four sessions over four weeks. Licensed therapists will provide the in-person psychotherapy. The participants in the waitlist arm will serve as controls unless there is attrition from the intervention group at which time waitlist participants will be offered a spot in the intervention arm. The primary objectives of the study are (1) To assess the usability of the application and (2) To evaluate the short-term impact on mood and anxiety of using the application to augment in-person psychotherapy.