ConProject-001

ConProject-001

• 批准号: 10688687
• 负责人: James William Griffith
• 金额: $ 66.46万
• 依托单位: INSPIRATION AT WORK, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-20 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10688687
• 关键词: 2019-nCoV; Advisory Committees; Affect; American; Anhedonia; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Behavioral; Businesses; COVID-19; COVID-19 pandemic; COVID-19 pandemic effects; Cognitive; Cognitive Therapy; Communities; Custom; Data; Depressed mood; Development; Dissemination and Implementation; Electronic Mail; Emotional disorder; Employee; Employment; Ensure; Evidence based treatment; Exercise; Exhibits; Female; Financial Hardship; Goals; Grant; Health; Hour; Human Resources; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Job Application; Lead; Major Depressive Disorder; Marketing; Measures; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Depression; Mental disorders; Methodology; Modeling; Motivation; Occupations; Participant; Persons; Phase; Private Sector; Psychologist; Randomized Controlled Trials; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Sampling; Scientist; Services; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Social Accountability; Social support; Suicide; Techniques; Testing; Treatment Efficacy; Unemployment; Universities; Vocational Guidance; Wages; Work; arm; base; career; commercialization; depressive symptoms; design; eHealth; efficacy evaluation; efficacy testing; evidence base; experience; flexibility; follow-up; implementation efforts; improved; innovation; multi-component intervention; multidisciplinary; novel coronavirus; pandemic disease; positive emotional state; programs; prototype; psychologic; response; skills; smartphone Application; social media; stressor; suicidal risk; therapy design; therapy development; treatment strategy; user centered design; webinar

PROJECT SUMMARY Significance: The overarching goal of this proposal is to develop an intervention to help unemployed individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) return to work. Individuals who lose their jobs are at risk for MDD and other psychiatric disorders. Because a core feature of MDD is decreased motivation, unemployed individuals with MDD can enter a `vicious cycle' where their depression leads to reduced motivation to seek work, which creates further financial hardship, which leads to worse depression and even suicide. The unprecedented impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on rates of depression and unemployment, has elucidated the clear need for interventions to help individuals with MDD return to work after getting laid off. Investigators: This STTR Fast Track grant brings together PeopleResults (a female-owned organizational development firm), diverse stakeholders (e.g., job seekers, community-based organizations), and Northwestern University researchers (e.g., psychologists, implementation and e-health scientists), to develop and test the efficacy of DRIVEN (Depression Return-to-work InterVEntioN). Innovation: DRIVEN is an innovative behavioral intervention that integrates evidenced-based strategies from cognitive-behavior therapy (e.g., behavioral activation techniques to improve positive affect and drive) with job-seeking and career counseling (e.g., interview coaching, how to customize job applications). DRIVEN will be a 6-week intervention largely delivered via a smartphone application (e.g., webinars, customized goals, with gamified features). However, given that e-health interventions are often plagued by high rates of attrition, DRIVEN will include multiple components designed to increase engagement, by increasing social support and accountability (e.g., biweekly live sessions with a job coach, email check-ins, gamified exercises, anonymous social media support platform). Our comprehensive commercialization plan also ensures that DRIVEN will reach job-seekers in need as it largely focuses on marketing to companies looking for outplacement services, i.e., resources provided by employers to recently laid off employees, in order to reduce the reputational fallout that companies risk following significant layoffs. Approach: Phase I will use user-centered design methodology (e.g., an advisory committee consisting of job-seekers, potential customers, experts in human resources) to design, develop, and alpha- and beta-test a prototype of DRIVEN. Phase II will test the efficacy of DRIVEN in a randomized controlled trial of 125 job seekers by comparing DRIVEN to a control condition consisting of self-guided job-seeking. Phase II will also utilize auto-regressive modelling with intensive longitudinal data to test for mediators of change (e.g., whether improvements in depression lead to greater job- seeking, and/or vice versa) Impact: DRIVEN will meet the high societal need resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic – helping the many unemployed Americans with MDD find meaningful and durable careers. While COVID-19 will (hopefully) be in the past by the end of this 3-year project, there will continue to be a need for interventions to help job-seekers with depression nimbly and successfully find work.

项目总结 意义：这项提案的首要目标是发展一种干预措施来帮助失业者 患有严重抑郁障碍(MDD)的患者重返工作岗位。失去工作的人有患MDD和 其他精神障碍。因为MDD的一个核心特征是动力减少，失业人员 患有MDD的人会进入一个恶性循环，在这种情况下，他们的抑郁会导致找工作的动力降低，这 造成进一步的经济困难，从而导致更严重的抑郁症，甚至自杀。前所未有的影响 新冠肺炎大流行对抑郁症和失业率的影响，阐明了明显的需要 用于干预措施，帮助MDD患者在下岗后重返工作岗位。调查人员：这一STTR速度很快 Track Grant将PeopleResults(一家女性所有的组织发展公司)聚集在一起， 利益相关者(例如，求职者、社区组织)和西北大学研究人员 (例如，心理学家、实施科学家和电子健康科学家)，以开发和测试Driven (抑郁症重返工作岗位干预)。创新：驱动是一种创新的行为干预 整合认知-行为疗法中基于证据的策略(例如，行为激活技术 通过求职和职业咨询(例如，面试辅导、如何 自定义工作申请)。将主要通过智能手机应用程序提供为期6周的干预 (例如，网络研讨会、定制目标、具有游戏化功能)。然而，鉴于电子健康干预措施通常是 受高自然减员率的困扰，Driven将包括多个旨在提高参与度的组件， 通过增加社会支持和责任(例如，与职业教练进行两周一次的现场会议，电子邮件签到， 游戏化练习、匿名社交媒体支持平台)。我们的全面商业化计划也 确保Driven将接触到有需要的求职者，因为它主要专注于向正在寻找 再就业服务，即雇主向最近下岗的员工提供的资源，以减少 企业在大规模裁员后可能面临的声誉后果。方法：第一阶段将以用户为中心 设计方法(例如，由求职者、潜在客户、专家组成的咨询委员会 人力资源)设计、开发并对驱动的原型进行阿尔法和贝塔测试。第二阶段将测试 驱动力在125名求职者随机对照试验中的有效性比较 自我指导求职的状态。第二阶段还将使用自回归建模， 测试变化中介的纵向数据(例如，抑郁症的改善是否会带来更多的工作- 寻求和/或反之亦然)影响：推动将满足新冠肺炎带来的高社会需求 流行病-帮助许多患有MDD的失业美国人找到有意义和持久的职业。而当 新冠肺炎将(希望)在这个为期3年的项目结束时成为过去，将继续需要 干预措施，帮助抑郁症求职者灵活而成功地找到工作。