A5027165924- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Mental Health via Writing
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Sleep and related disorders
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Migration, Health and Trauma
Deloitte (United States)
2023-2024
Creative Commons
2023
E Ink (South Korea)
2023
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
2023
University of Virginia
2016-2022
Durham VA Health Care System
2019-2021
Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers
2019-2021
VA Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network
2019-2021
Durham VA Medical Center
2020
Duke Medical Center
2019
Suicide and self-injury are difficult to predict because at-risk individuals often unable or unwilling report their intentions. Therefore, tools reliably assess risk without reliance on self-report critically needed. Prior research suggests that people who engage in suicidal nonsuicidal (NSSI) implicitly (i.e., outside conscious control) associate themselves with self-harm death, indicating self-harm-related implicit cognition may serve as a useful behavioral marker for suicide risk....
Suicide researchers commonly use a variety of assessment methods (e.g., surveys and interviews) to enroll participants into studies assign them study conditions. However, prior suggest that different items may yield responses from participants. This examines potential inconsistencies in participants' reports suicidal ideation (SI) suicide attempt (SA) across used methods: phone screen interview, in-person self-report survey, confidential exit survey. To test the reliability effects, we...
Although social anxiety and depression are common, they often underdiagnosed undertreated, in part due to difficulties identifying accessing individuals need of services. Current assessments rely on client self-report clinician judgment, which vulnerable desirability other subjective biases. Identifying objective, nonburdensome markers these mental health problems, such as features speech, could help advance assessment, prevention, treatment approaches. Prior research examining speech...
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young adults but challenges preventing suicide are significant because signs often seem invisible. Research has shown that clinicians not able to reliably predict when someone at greatest risk. In this paper, we describe design, collection, and analysis text messages from individuals with a history suicidal thoughts behaviors build model identify periods suicidality (i.e., ideation non-fatal attempts). By reconstructing timeline recent...
The high-stakes nature of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) raises ethical questions concerns. authors examined the iatrogenic risk recently developed behavioral measures such as suicide or self-injury Implicit Association Tests (IATs), which include repeated rapid presentation SITB-related images (e.g., cut skin) words death, suicide). impact these IATs was investigated across a series 3 studies involving: adult web-based respondents (n = 3,304), undergraduate students 100),...
This study explores whether four sessions of attention bias modification (ABM) decreases suicide-specific attentional bias. We conducted two experiments where suicide ideators completed either a Training or Control version ABM, computer-based intervention intended to target Suicide-specific was measured using adapted Stroop and probe discrimination tasks. The first experiment with community-based did not show that ABM impacts suicidal ideation. second clinically severe inpatients yielded...
Objective tools to assess suicide risk are needed determine when someone is at imminent risk. This pilot laboratory investigation utilized a within-subjects design identify patterns in text messaging (SMS) unique high-risk periods preceding attempts. Individuals reporting history of attempt (N=33) retrospectively identified past attempts and lower (e.g., ideation). Language analysis software scored 189,478 messages capture three psychological constructs: self-focus, sentiment, social...
Sexual assault is associated with increased psychological distress. It possible that military sexual (MSA) heightened distress compared to adult occurs pre- or postmilitary service due the nature of setting. Veterans and members (N = 3,114; 19.6% women) who participated in Post-Deployment Mental Health Study completed self-report measures history, symptoms posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, hazardous alcohol use, drug suicidal ideation. Women reported a history MSA endorsed...
Abstract Objective Previous studies of military veterans have produced mixed findings regarding whether combat exposure is directly related to suicidal ideation or indirectly via its influence on other factors. The present study used a longitudinal design test the hypothesis that post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity mediates effect in veterans. Method Participants included 319 post‐9/11 (83.4% male; 42.1% White/52.1% Black; M age = 39.7) assessed at baseline, 6, and 12...
Abstract The Death/Suicide Implicit Association Test (IAT) is effective at detecting and prospectively predicting suicidal thoughts behaviors. However, traditional IAT scoring procedures used in all prior studies (i.e., D ‐scores) provide an aggregate score that inherently relative, obfuscating the separate associations “Me = Death/Suicide,” Life”) might be most relevant for understanding suicide‐related implicit cognition. Here, we decompose D‐ scores validate a new analytic technique...
Abstract Background The affective states most strongly associated with nonsuicidal self‐injury (NSSI) remain poorly understood, particularly among veterans. This study used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to examine relationships between affect ratings and NSSI urges behaviors veterans disorder. Methods Participants ( N = 40) completed EMA entries via mobile phone for 28 days (3722 total entries). Entries included intensity five basic states, as well behaviors, during the past 4 hours....
Objectives: The purpose of this work was to segment the Missouri population into unique groups related COVID-19 vaccine acceptance using data science and behavioral methods develop tailored outreach strategies. Methods: Cluster analysis techniques were applied a large set that aggregated vaccination with demographic from American Community Survey Deloitte's HealthPrism™ set. Outreach recommendations developed for each cluster, specific group's practical motivational barriers vaccination....
Introduction: The current study investigated whether high and low socially-anxious individuals would show differences in affective forecasting accuracy (i.e., the prediction of emotional states response to future events) positive versus negative social evaluation. Method: High (n = 94) 98) participants gave a speech were randomly assigned receive or Results: For forecasts made proximally (moments before speech), those anxiety overpredicted their affect greater extent evaluation In contrast,...
Objective tools to assess suicide risk are needed determine when someone is at imminent risk. This pilot laboratory investigation utilized a within-subjects design identify patterns in text messaging (SMS) unique high-risk periods preceding attempts. Individuals reporting history of attempt (N=33) retrospectively identified past attempts and lower (e.g., ideation). Language analysis software scored 189,478 messages capture three psychological constructs: self-focus, sentiment, social...
Emotional communication is central to strong interpersonal relationships and mental health. For emerging adults, much of their happens via texting, but we know little about how with whom emotional texting occurs. Understanding these patterns may be especially critical for adults experiencing health crises (e.g., suicidality). This study examined the tone texts (sent received) varies based on partner (i.e., peers, which includes friends significant others, vs. family) within-person suicide...
Abstract Objective Identifying digital markers of sleep disturbance—a known suicide risk factor—may aid in the detection imminent risk. This study examined sleep‐related communication and texting patterns personal text messages ( N = 86,705) attempt survivors. Method Twenty‐six participants provided dates past attempts 2‐week periods positive mood, depressed or suicidal ideation. Linguistic Inquiry Word Count was used to identify texts via a custom dictionary. Mixed effect models were fitted...
Introduction: The current study investigated whether high and low socially-anxious individuals would show differences in affective forecasting accuracy (i.e., the prediction of emotional states response to future events) positive versus negative social evaluation. Method: High (n = 94) 98) participants gave a speech were randomly assigned receive or Results: For forecasts made proximally (moments before speech), those anxiety overpredicted their affect greater extent evaluation In contrast,...
Prospection, the mental simulation of future events, has been theoretically linked to physical and health. Prior studies have found that prospection is malleable; however, no research our knowledge tested whether a scalable intervention explicitly targeting positive outcomes can lead more generalized prospection, enhance outlook reduce distress. The current study novel, web-based cognitive bias modification for interpretation (CBM-I) program designed shift prospective towards (as opposed...