Principal Investigators: Carmen Gonzalez & Maggie Ramirez. This project studied the challenges in using virtual mental health platforms to treat PPD among Latinas and designed a prototype to support virtual delivery of PPD treatment in ways that are acceptable, feasible, usable, and equitable.
Principal investigators: Kendra Kamp & Rona Levy. This project aims to redesign a proven IBS mental health intervention to improve clinical adoption by addressing usability barriers.
Gary and Amy, recipients of an R03, have been leading research around depression care in rural and urban cancer centers- applying a human-centered design process to discover contextual constraints and gather requirements for the design and development of a digital platform to support the delivery of Collaborative Care Management (CoCM) for depression. Their work will be part of a…
Principal investigators: Dror Ben-Zeev & Jaime Snyder. This project aims to co-develop mHealer, a mobile system to train West African traditional healers in evidence-based psychosocial interventions and human rights practices for serious mental illness.
Principal Investigators: Elena Agapie & Pat Arean. This project focused on understanding barriers and facilitators to completing homework in Problem Solving Therapy, identifying opportunities for design to support effective completion of between-session activities.
Prior to the 5th Biennial Society for Implementation Research Conference (SIRC), UWAC sponsored a one day workshop to discuss the intersection of Implementation Science and Human/User Centered Design. Attendees from both fields came together to hear presentations by Sarah Birken, Madhu Reddy, and Alex Dopp and participate in activities to identify opportunities to integrate implementation science and HCD in order to…
Aaron Lyon recently met with Tim Hobbs and Maria Portugal from the Dartington Service Design Lab and Nick Axford (Plymouth University and Senior Lab Associate) at the European Society for Prevention Research conference in Ghent #EUSPR19. Dartington Service Design Lab is another great organization working at the intersection of evidence-informed practice and user-centered design across the pond,…
NIMH shined a spotlight on ALACRITY Centers in their recent Science News, sharing how Mental Health Research Centers Forge Collaborations with ALACRITY. The NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research sponsored a 2-day meeting mid-July in Bethesda, MD, where eight ALACRITY Center Directors shared research strategies, resources, and know-how on ways their centers are organizing themselves to conduct their research. The…
Methods Core co-lead with the UW ALACRITY, Aaron Lyon, Ph.D., has been selected to present at the 12th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation. His abstract is focused on Advancing the science of intervention adaptation: Integrating human-centered design and implementation science in the UW ALACRITY Center. He is scheduled to present in…
The UW ALACRITY Center interviewed Dr. Jessica Jenness and Dr. Julie Kientz about how to use an asynchronous remote community (ARC) in user research. This vide was based on Dr. Jenness and Kientz’s work in their pilot project to design and evaluate an asynchronous remote communication approach to behavioral activation with clinicians and adolescents at…