Public Mental Health and Substance Misuse Research Archives

22 Feb

Post-partum Women and Infants Study (PPWI)

This project responds to an identified need to expand residential substance abuse treatment services for pregnant and postpartum Latina women in Boston.

22 Feb

The Literacy Study: The Meaning and Impact of Limited Literacy in the Lives of People Living with Serious Mental Illness

The goal of this study is to increase our understanding of the prevalence of limited literacy among people using public, urban mental health outpatient services and to examine mechanisms that inform our understanding of these relationships.

22 Feb

Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing in Construction Workers: Understanding the Role of Work and the Conditions of Work

This study aims to determine construction worker perspectives on their mental health and wellbeing, and how work contributes to mental health and the wellbeing of the workers.

22 Feb

Literacy Education for Improving Engagement in Treatment and Community Inclusion for People with Serious Mental Illness

This is a pilot study to develop and implement an adapted Adult Basic Education course in a public urban outpatient mental health clinic for those with limited literacy and living with serious mental illness.

22 Feb

Evaluation of the Massachusetts Multi-City Young Children’s Mental Health System of Care (SOC) Project

The purpose of this evaluation study is to determine the effectiveness of the SOC project on early child care service systems' functioning, children's mental, behavioral, and developmental health outcomes, and the project's impact on collaboration across the system of care.

22 Feb

Project LAUNCH

This project promotes the emotional, social, and behavioral health of young children by enhancing early childhood service systems.

22 Feb

Literacy Intervention Development Team

This study aims to adapt and modify Adult Basic Education and the development of evidence-based methods to improve the reading skills of people with mental illness, which may have a broad public health impact.

22 Feb

Developing the Evidence Base for Overdose Policies: A Multilevel Analysis of NHBS

This research aims to uncover whether and how specific drug and health-related laws and placement characteristics relate to a variety of overdose related outcomes among people who inject drugs, overall and by race/ethnicity, gender, age, and HIV status.

20 Feb

Exploring Pathways Among Discrimination and Health Among Somali Young Adults

The goal of this project is to expand knowledge of the relationships among experiences of discrimination and health outcomes for young Somali adults and ultimately mitigate disparities in mental health and health outcomes experienced by immigrant young adults.

20 Feb

Quantifying Health Policy Impacts on Substance Use and Treatment among Women with and at Risk for HIV

This study aims to generate evidence on how health policies impact substance use and drug and alcohol treatment among women with and at risk of HIV in the United States, and explain the pathways through which these policies shape HIV viral suppression among women with HIV.

13 Feb

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