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The mHealth Research Core is available for free, fully-online research consults. To schedule a consult with the team, complete a Case Consult Form.

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Is tech making your life easier, or harder?

Clinical research sites face many challenges. Keeping up with decentralized trials, recruiting diverse patients, learning about the newest regulations, managing dozens of technology platforms–it’s a lot. 

But the right technology can make your trials more efficient and inclusive while keeping them compliant. Learn more about finding the right tech for decentralized trials on our resources page. 

Craving information about how tech can address clinical trial regulations, burnout, or patient access? Check out these articles and videos: 

• Regulations: How Global Clinical Trial Regulations Impact Healthcare Technology (5-min read; Blog)
• Clinical Research Careers: Combating Burnout in Clinical Research (6-min read; Blog)
• Patient Experience: How Community-Based Clinical Trials Benefit Sponsors, Local Healthcare Systems, and Patients (5-min; Blog)
• DCTs: Sites, DCTs, and Agile Trials… How Do They All Mix? (45-min watch; Video)

Have questions and want to chat with our experts? Reach out to us here.  -The Florence Team

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The Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs), in collaboration with the Society for Digital Mental Health, hosts a monthly webinar featuring talks on or related to digital mental health from leaders across a wide range of specialties, including psychology and psychiatry, human-computer interaction, computer science, implementation science and policy. The webinars are open to anyone interested in joining. Browse previous talks and their recordings here.     Join us Tuesday, January 10th at Noon to 1 PM CST. Register via Zoom   “Google’s approach to improving mental health” – Dr. Megan Jones Bell is clinical director of consumer and mental health at Google and gets to think about how to improve health for billions of people. She was formerly chief strategy and science officer at Headspace and helped guide Headspace through its transformation from a meditation app into a comprehensive digital mental health platform, Headspace Health. Megan founded one of the first digital mental health start-ups, Lantern, where she pioneered blended mental health interventions leveraging software and coaching. Megan started her career at Stanford University where she was an assistant professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. At Stanford and in her work with the European Union Megan developed and disseminated over two dozen evidence-based digital mental health interventions and conducted research in the US, Europe, India, and Brazil. Megan clinically specializes in the treatment of adolescents and young adults and is an expert in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and obesity. Megan serves on the Board of the Child Mind Institute, Castilleja School and the Scientific Advisory Board for HFC. Megan is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Megan earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology, graduating cum laude from University of California, San Diego. She received her master’s degree and doctorate in clinical psychology from PGSP-Stanford University, and completed fellowships at Yale University and Stanford University School of Medicine.     Other Upcoming Webinars   February 7, 2023 Sara Becker, PhD (Northwestern University)   March 7, 2023 Michael Schoenbaum, PhD (University of Michigan)   Click here for our full schedule of upcoming webinars in 2023.

Woebot for Adolescent Depression Shown to Reduce Symptom Severity in Real-World Setting

Woebot Health interviews Ginger Nicol, MD who collaborated with Jane Garbutt, MD; together they designed a 12-week IRB-approved study of adolescents diagnosed with depression and/or anxiety by their primary care provider. It compared treatment as usual (TAU) to TAU plus Woebot for Adolescent Depression (W-GenZ), an investigational software as a medical device app that delivers evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and is designed specifically for teenagers. 

According to the paper, which was authored by Nicol and her colleagues and recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), participants in the active treatment group experienced a greater reduction in depressive symptoms than the usual care group.

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mHRC consult results in funding by

Clinical and Translational Research Funding Program (CTRFP)

Chatbot-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Adolescents With Depression and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Feasibility and Acceptability Study

Nicol G, Wang R, Graham S, Dodd S, Garbutt J. JMIR Formative Research 2022 Nov 22;6(11):e40242. doi: 10.2196/40242

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Application process open for the 2023 mHealth Training Institute

Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 NIH mHealth Training Institute (mHTI). Designed to develop the next generation of transdisciplinary mHealth researchers, the hybrid mHTI will blend pre-mHTI webinars and virtual “sandboxes” with an immersive in-person mHTI (July 16-20, 2023) at the University of California, Los Angeles. Find more information on the About, Program, and Apply pages.

Key Dates

Application Deadline: January 15, 2023
Notifications of Acceptance: April 10, 2023 

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health Awards Two Grants to Address Eating Disorders in Adolescent Girls

Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft and Denise Wilfley from Washington University in St. Louis were one of two sites in the country selected for their MPI grant, “Harnessing State-Wide Partnerships and Technology to Expand Access to Care for Eating Disorders in Adolescent Girls in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond“

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Invitation to February 2023 grant submitters:

The mHealth Research Core would like to offer anyone who is an ICTS member from partner institutions: https://icts.wustl.edu/about/partner-institutions/ the opportunity to present your mobile health-focused grant at our January 2023 meeting (date TBD)!  Receive real-time feedback from a group of mHealth-focused research colleagues prior to your submission.

If interested, please send your AIMS Page & Research Strategy (rough draft is fine) to Stephanie Brown at brownsj@wustl.edu by December 2nd.

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REDCap E-Consent Webinars

Becker Library’s Data Management and Sharing services recently held two webinars related to the WUSTL REDCap E-Consent Template. The webinars were recorded and posted to the REDCap Workshop Recordings webpage.
Email Chris Sorensen at sorensenc@wustl.edu with any questions.

• Formatting a REDCap E-Consent Survey to Match the Informed Consent Document
  Learn to format the e-consent survey provided in the WUSTL REDCap E-Consent Template to match the informed consent document submitted to the myIRB application.

• Modifying a REDCap E-Consent Survey
  Learn to modify the e-consent survey created using the WUSTL REDCap E-Consent Template while maintaining functionality and not altering existing fully executed consents.

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Vanderbilt University has built a mobile application, myCAP 

To learn more or to register for a demo to test out the functionality of the myCap mobile application, please visit the Project myCAP web site.

There are three demos available, and for the demo to work you will have to download the myCap app onto your mobile device (available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store):

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Digital Health: What’s in a Name?

Hear thoughts about the definition of digital health from Chief Science & Digital Officer Eric Perakslis, PhD, and his plans for Duke Clinical Research Institute’s digital health strategy.

This is informal guidance that does not necessarily represent official university or federal policy.