Technology-Enabled Prevention Service for At-Risk Youth

为高危青少年提供技术支持的预防服务

• 批准号: 10178115
• 负责人: Ashley Arehart Knapp
• 金额: $ 17.18万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10178115
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Adult; Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders; Aptitude; Automobile Driving; Caring; Cognitive; Communities; Complement; Data Analytics; Development; Diagnostic; Educational workshop; Ensure; Evaluation; Experimental Designs; Feedback; Generations; Goals; Grant; Health; Healthcare; Immersion; Incidence; Infrastructure; Intervention; Laboratories; Literature; Mediating; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Mentored Research Scientist Development Award; Mentorship; Methodology; Methods; Outcome; Performance; Population; Prevention program; Preventive healthcare; Process; Provider; Psychopathology; Randomized; Research; Research Project Grants; Risk; Scientist; Services; System; Technology; Teenagers; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Translating; Underserved Population; Work; Youth; acceptability and feasibility; anxiety symptoms; anxiety-related disorders; base; career; career development; childhood anxiety; community engaged research; community organizations; community partnership; community setting; computer human interaction; design; digital; digital mental health; efficacy evaluation; efficacy testing; emotion dysregulation; evidence base; functional disability; intervention effect; iterative design; meetings; novel strategies; physical conditioning; pilot trial; prevent; prevention service; preventive intervention; programs; prototype; psychologic; school health; skills; social relationships; software development; substance use; testing services; tool; underserved community; usability; user centered design

PROJECT SUMMARY Anxiety disorders are the most common class of psychopathology among youth, with nearly a quarter of adolescents meeting 12-month diagnostic criteria. There is evidence that anxiety prevention programs can be effective for youth however, they are not widely available or accessible, particularly among underserved populations where need is greatest. Novel approaches to increase engagement in and access to interventions that prevent the development and impact of anxiety disorders among are needed. To address these gaps in the literature, the goals specific to this grant are to use user-centered design methods to engage at-risk adolescents, providers, and community partnerships into the iterative design of a technology-enabled prevention service for anxiety (TEPS-A). We will then conduct a randomized pilot trial on the adapted TEPS-A prototype. Importantly, the proposed study is designed to complement the training program by helping me to refine relevant research skills while designing and evaluating a TEPS-A among at-risk youth. My goal is to harness digital tools to extend reach of preventive interventions to underserved youth in community settings, and sustainably deploy and evaluate digital tools for adolescents designed to reduce the incidence of anxiety and related disorders. A comprehensive training plan was therefore constructed to systematically advance my: 1) expertise in user-centered design methods, 2) aptitude in community-engaged research with underserved populations, 3) methodological skills related to designing and deploying preventive interventions, and 4) proficiency in qualitative and longitudinal data analytics. Accomplishment of the training goals and proposed research project will provide the skills and tools necessary for development of an R01 proposal aimed at testing the efficacy of the TEPS-A among youth within community settings. Consistent with the goals of the K01 Award, the research opportunities as well as mentorship on conducting digital mental health research with youth populations from underserved communities will help me become a successful independent research scientist in the field of digital mental health.

项目摘要 焦虑症是年轻人中最常见的心理病理学类别，近四分之一 符合12个月诊断标准的青少年。有证据表明预防焦虑计划可以 然而，对青年有效，它们并不广泛或可访问，尤其是在服务不足的情况下 需求的人口最大。增加参与并获得干预措施的新颖方法 这可以防止焦虑症的发展和影响。解决这些差距 文献，本赠款特定的目标是使用以用户为中心的设计方法参与风险 青少年，提供者和社区伙伴关系，以技术支持技术的迭代设计 预防焦虑服务（TEPS-A）。然后，我们将对适应的TEPS-A进行随机试验试验 原型。重要的是，拟议的研究旨在通过帮助我来补充培训计划 在高危青年中设计和评估TEPS-A时，可以完善相关的研究技能。 我的目标是利用数字工具将预防干预措施扩展到服务不足的青年 社区环境，可持续部署和评估旨在减少旨在减少的青少年的数字工具 焦虑和相关疾病的发生率。因此，建立了一个全面的培训计划 系统地推进我：1）以用户为中心的设计方法专业知识，2）社区参与的能力 服务不足的人群研究，3）与设计和部署预防性有关的方法学技能 干预措施，以及4）熟练性和纵向数据分析。训练 目标和拟议的研究项目将提供开发R01所需的技能和工具 提案旨在测试TEPS-A在社区环境中的青年中的功效。与 K01奖的目标，研究机会以及进行数字精神的指导 与服务不足社区的青年人群的健康研究将帮助我成为成功 数字心理健康领域的独立研究科学家。