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Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Registry
Principal Investigator: Elly Cohen, Ph.D.
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Cultivating Emotional Balance in School Teachers with Intimate Partners
Principal Investigator: Margaret Kemeny, Ph.D. |
Effectiveness of Internet vs. Face to Face Support Groups
Principal Investigator: Morton Lieberman, Ph.D.
This study will explore the effectiveness of online support groups for Women with breast cancer. |
Internet Health Research Center: Smoking, Latinos and the Web
Principal Investigator: Ricardo F. Muñoz, Ph.D.
This study is a randomized control trial on the web comparing smoking cessation rates produced by each of four web-administered conditions, each adding a specific component to a standard intervention:
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Stress and MRI Changes in Multiple Sclerosis
Principal Investigator: David Mohr, Ph.D.
This study will determine the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy for MS (CBT-MS), compared to CONDENSED CBT, in reducing neuroimaging markers of MS inflammation and deterioration. |
Health and the Web
Principal Investigator: Alinne Barrera, Ph.D
The purpose of the Health and the Web survey is two-fold. First, we hope to gather information about health-related areas of greatest interest among individuals who use the Internet to obtain health information. Second, we hope to use the study to gather normative data for mood, smoking, and other health-related assessment instruments used in Web surveys and randomized trials already being conducted by the Internet World Health Research Center at UCSF. In this survey we are going directly to people doing Internet searches on health topics and asking them which health issues we should prioritize for future projects. Click here to view the survey. |
The Mothers and Babies Internet Course/Curso Internet de Mamás y Bebés
Principal Investigator: Alinne Barrera, Ph.D
The main goal of this investigation is to conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an automated, self-help, web-based depression prevention intervention. This project will be an adaptation of the Mamás y Bebés/Mothers and Babies Course (M&B), which was originally developed as a 12-session, clinician-guided, in-person
group intervention, designed to prevent major depression in expectant mothers at high risk for depression (Muñoz, Gosh-Ippen, Le, Leiberman, Diaz, & La Plante, 2001). This investigation will examine the efficacy of the Spanish- and English-language Internet version of an adapted 8-week M&B course.
The long-term goal of this randomized controlled trial is to provide a prenatal and postpartum depression prevention intervention for women all around the world, especially for those who have no access to such interventions. In this intervention, participants will be randomly assigned to either a mood management intervention or to an information-only condition. Participants in both conditions will receive information materials pertaining to perinatal and postpartum depression, but only those in the mood management condition will receive the interactive web-adapted M&B.
This project is currently under development. We anticipate launching the site and opening recruitment in April 2008. The investigation is funded by an NIMH Individual NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship (PI: Barrera) and by funds provided by the Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital. If you have any questions about this investigation, please contact the Principal Investigator, Alinne
Barrera, Ph.D. at alinne.barrera@ucsf.edu. |
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