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Filter by:This study tests the effectiveness of a community-based peer advocacy, mutual learning, and social support intervention (Refugee and Immigrant Well-being Project) to reduce several negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic that are disproportionately impacting Latinx and Black populations: psychological distress, financial problems, and daily stressors. In partnership with five community-based organizations that focus on mental health, legal, education, and youth issues with Latinx immigrants and African refugees, we will also be able to examine the effects of people's involvement with community-based organizations and local and state policy changes on their mental health, economic stability, stressors, and social support. This is important not only for Latinx and Black populations and the large number of immigrants and refugees in the United States and worldwide, but also because the intervention model and what we learn from this study have the potential to alleviate mental health disparities experienced by other marginalized populations who face unequal access to social and material resources, disproportionate exposure to trauma and stress, and worse consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chinese American Family Caregiver Writing Study is a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) testing the efficacy of the Expressive Helping (EH) intervention among Chinese Americans who are providing care for family members undergoing cancer treatment.
This protocol delineates a randomized controlled trial for evaluating the implementation and clinical effectiveness of Assecet, a digital peer support intervention for youth mental well-being, which comprises two components. The digital peer support training curriculum aims to equip youth befrienders (i.e., peers who provide support) with knowledge and skills in harnessing four active ingredients of youth mental well-being-specifically, Mattering, selfhood, compassion, and mindfulness, in providing effective peer support for seekers (peers who seek support). The Acceset intervention that involves three components-digital biomarkers of psychological well-being, peer emotional disclosure process and community engagement.
The randomized, two-arm pragmatic trial will test the effectiveness of offering 6-months of telephonic support from a mental health (MH) navigator to promote early access, engagement, coordination, and personalization of mental health treatment and services for children naïve to such treatments and services, and who are identified as being at risk for behavioral health concerns. The model includes: (a) automated identification of early symptoms for children meeting criteria for behavioral health problems using a previously developed Natural Language Processing (NLP) program and predictive algorithm; (b) standardized instruments for assessment and diagnosis of mental health disorders (c) 30 minute assessment appointments with a study psychologist (d) creation of an Epic "reporting workbench" and Epic "smart form" to facilitate the outreach, monitoring and follow-up of families/children by the MH navigator; (e) use of MH Navigators (e.g., clinical social workers) to conduct family outreach, and coordination with and between clinicians; and (f) the offer of one to four clinic-to-home videoconferencing brief therapy sessions to bridge families/children unwilling or unable to access in-person MH services.
Teachers in Hong Kong are susceptible to professional stress and its associated psychosomatic illnesses. To enhance teachers' well-being, mindfulness training is conducted in local schools. The present study is a randomized controlled trial to investigate 1) the effects of mindfulness training on teachers' well-being (i.e. general health, positive affect, stress, negative affect); 2) whether decentering strategy (vs. cognitive reappraisal strategy) is nurtured by mindfulness practice; and 3) whether decentering instead of cognitive reappraisal is the mediator that explains the impact of mindfulness on well-being. Participants will be randomized to either intervention (8-week .b Foundations course) or waiting-list control condition.
Teachers in Hong Kong are susceptible to professional stress and its associated psychosomatic illnesses. To enhance teachers' well-being, mindfulness training is conducted in local schools. The present study is a randomized controlled trial to explore 1) the relationship between mindfulness, common humanity, self-compassion, compassion, and well-being of school teachers; 2) whether mindfulness and common humanity are the antecedents of self-compassion and compassion; 3) the conditions under which compassion and self-compassion are highly correlated. Participants will be randomized to either intervention (8-week .b Foundations course) or waiting-list control condition. They will complete an online survey before (baseline), after (post-intervention), and two-months (follow-up) after the intervention.
The goal of this project is to improve school-based services by developing and testing an online training and consultation system to facilitate the use of measurement-based care (also known and referenced in original grant as routine outcome monitoring). Measurement-based care (MBC) is the target intervention because it is an EBP with extensive empirical support for its ability to improve mental health service outcomes and is a feasible and cost-effective option. Following the iterative development of the BOLT training and consultation package (phases 1-4), the investigators will conduct a randomized control pilot trial (phase 5) to test the (1) impact of the package on MBC knowledge, attitudes and use, (2) impact of varying degrees of consultation dosage on weekly assessments of MBC use, and (3) moderators and mechanisms of impact.
We will evaluate a transdiagnostic digital emotion regulation treatment for youth with mental health problems.
Adolescents represent a growing share of people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), yet show poor adherence to medication and viral suppression (VS) compared to adults. Investigators postulate that to achieve optimal adherence, support interventions that resonate with life-stages changes in adolescence need to be tested and promoted. Mindfulness and acceptance based interventions are slowly gaining traction as appropriate for adolescents. The study proposes to explore acceptability of an adapted mindfulness and acceptance-based psychosocial intervention (acceptance and commitment therapy: Discoverer, Noticer, Advisor-values model-ACT-DNA-v), among providers (health care practitioners -HCPs) and users (adolescents living with HIV/AIDS-ALWHA). Further, it endeavors to measure feasibility and effectiveness of ACT-DNA-v in reducing psychological barriers to adherence among ALWHAs. The study is to be conducted at two public health centers in Kampala-Uganda. The study design is exploratory sequential mixed-methods; where qualitative data is to be used to explore acceptance of ACT-DNA-v, while quantitative data will be used to measure feasibility of the intervention and its effectiveness in reducing psychosocial barriers to adherence. Qualitative exploratory methods will guide exploration of acceptability of ACT-DNA-v among users and providers; collecting data with a semi-structured interview on domains of inquiry including; understanding, satisfaction, intention to use and perceived appropriateness of ACT-DNA-v. A randomized control trial with quantitative surveys at baseline, post-intervention and follow-up will used to measure the effects of the intervention on process and clinical outcomes among ALWHA. Thematic data analysis will be used to analyze qualitative data, while T-test, Wilcoxon rank sum test, Fisher's exact and Chi-square tests respectively will be used to ascertain average mean differences between the ACT group and the control group on the outcome parameters.
PROACTIVE Parent is an educational program designed to improve parenting skills to more effectively manage child behavior and social and emotional needs in children with depressive symptoms. PROACTIVE Parent (Providing Access To Innovative & Evidence-Based Intervention) is a new service delivery model that uses telehealth methodology to engage parents in managing their child's mental health needs. PROACTIVE Parent aims to provide parents with information about their child's mental health symptoms and diagnosis, options for evidence-based treatment interventions, and a free, online application for identifying appropriate and accessible treatment options. PROACTIVE Parent is also designed to provide parents a deeper understanding of the function of child behavior, and strategies to promote effective behavior management and healthy coping. Parents will also learn skills to manage their own emotional dysregulation to promote calm parental responding and healthy parent-child interaction and communication. The investigators will assess the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effectiveness of a 10-week curriculum. Outcomes include parent reports of acceptability, utility, feasibility of program elements, and the preliminary effectiveness of the program in improving parent activation, parent empowerment, parent emotion dysregulation, and reducing child mental health and behavioral symptoms, and barriers to treatment participation.