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Filter by:Because of the COVID-19 pandemic situation, social and health professionals constitute a population in risk of developing psychopathologies due to the high levels of stress they experience. There is consensus regarding the need of offering these professionals psychotherapeutic evidence-based interventions addressed to reducing their stress levels and promote their wellbeing; because of the current situation, it is believed that online interventions might be the best-fitted approach. The research groups that present this project have leaded a research line that has proved the efficacy of online psychotherapeutic programs in the past. In the present project, the efficacy of the MINDxYOU program will be evaluated; this is an online intervention based on mindfulness techniques, compassion, and acceptance, and that has been developed specifically for social and health professionals. In addition, in order to overcome the gap that separates the validation of interventions and their posterior implementation, this project aims to perform an implementation study in which a hybrid design will be adopted to test the impact of the program in terms of efficacy and the feasibility of the implementation. The investigators will adopt the framework proposed by Hermes. et al., inspired in Proctor's recommendations. The study will be conducted in 2 autonomous communities (Aragón and Andalucía).
The complex process of pregnancy and childbirth can determine the future health of mother and child. It is the only vital process that involves the modification of practically all of a woman's body systems in order to sustain fetal life. In this sense, it is essential to ensure adequate functioning of all maternal physiological, mental and emotional mechanisms that facilitate fetal growth and development. Complications in any of these health domains and functions may contribute to pathologies and complications that have a detrimental impact on maternal and newborn health. Pregnancy could be a vulnerable period for women, especially regarding mental and emotional illnesses, which are more likely to manifest during this time compared to other periods of their life. In this sense, a high prevalence of prenatal stress, anxiety and depression exists, which are associated with downstream newborn complications as well. Depressive symptoms such as sadness, decreased interest in everyday activities, reduced energy and concentration are generated by the aforementioned gestational lability, these symptoms would appear (mostly) at the beginning of the pregnancy. Feelings of being overwhelmed, uneasiness, threat or imminent danger, uncertainty, difficulty in making decisions, obsessive thoughts could be caused by prenatal anxiety. According to scientific literature, the consequences of mental and emotional disturbances during pregnancy go beyond the gestational period and affect mother, fetus, newborn, and even child development, including complications such as preterm delivery, prolonged and more instrumental labor, low birth weight, pre-term birth, infant's physical and cognitive developmental delay, and the poor mother-infant relationship.
The objective of this planned research is to more fully test the efficacy of a very brief, inexpensive, single-session, and web-delivered personalized normative feedback (PNF) intervention evaluated in a successful pilot R34 study to prevent alcohol misuse and associated negative consequences, as well as increase behavioral health treatment seeking behaviors among a difficult to reach and treatment resistant veteran population. The investigators expand on successful pilot work by (1) building a large publicly available database of young veteran drinking and treatment seeking norms, (2) focusing on reaching veterans who have recently separated from the military and drink heavily but who have not recently sought any behavioral health treatment, (3) evaluating how an enhanced intervention offering PNF content specifically related to treatment seeking affects preparatory behaviors and actual treatment initiation, and (4) testing hypothesized mediators and moderators of intervention drinking and treatment initiation outcomes relevant for this population. In Aim 1, the investigators will add to a large database of drinking norms for the population by collecting drinking and treatment seeking information from veterans underrepresented in the pilot, such as female veterans (total sample N = 2,500). In Aim 2, investigators then use these norms in a randomized controlled trial of the PNF intervention designed to reach heavy drinking young veterans who are not currently receiving behavioral health care (N = 800) and test if additional feedback about treatment seeking can help promote treatment initiation among this treatment resistant group. Outcomes at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months are compared for participants receiving an enhanced PNF condition (N = 400) to an attention-only control condition (N = 400). In Aim 3, the investigators test mediators of intervention efficacy on drinking outcomes (i.e., changes in perceived norms, increases in treatment initiation) and explore moderators of outcomes to determine if the brief intervention works better for veteran participants based on age, gender, reasons for drinking (social versus coping), perceived stigma, posttraumatic stress disorder disorder and depression symptoms, and solitary drinking. This project is funded by the NIAAA grant R01AA026575.
This study is in line with the UAEs national drive to promote happiness and wellbeing. University students risk impaired psychological health, wellbeing, and sleep due to academic pressures. This research is the first to assess the feasibility of using a laughter prescription to improve psychological health and sleep in Zayed University students. Forty students will be recruited, and randomized to a control or laughter group.
In this TARGet Kids! Study, we want to find out whether a short questionnaire can be used to help find out about mental health problems in preschool age children.