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Mental Health Outcomes

We believe mental health is a substantial part of an individual’s overall health. It affects how we think, feel and behave. Through research, we determine how stress and mental illness contributes to populations developing chronic diseases, and we create strategies to improve mental health and overall wellness.

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Featured Publications

  • The Role of Parental Language Acculturation in the Formation of Social Capital: Differential Effects on High-risk Children
  • Organizational Characteristics and Readiness for Tobacco-Free Workplace Program Implementation Moderates Changes in Clinician’s Delivery of Smoking Interventions within Behavioral Health Treatment Clinics
  • Heart Rate Variability and Anxious Arousal: Unique Relations With Sleep-Related Problems in Stress-Exposed Adolescents
  • Poor Sleep and Emotion Dysregulation Mediate the Association Between Depressive and Premenstrual Symptoms in Young Adult Women
  • Factor structure and validation of the mental health checklist (MHCL) for use in isolated, confined and extreme environments

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How to Talk to College Students about Alcohol Addiction and Binge Drinking
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New NOSI grant awarded to RESTORE Lab Researcher Brooke Kauffman to study Latinx Smokers and the Impact of Microaggressions on Smoking Behavior and Relapse
Discrimination can be enacted in overt and intended ways, but it can also occur in many subtle…
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Four Pilot Grants Awarded to HEALTH-RCMI Researchers and Early-Stage Investigators
To nurture the research paths of early-stage investigators, pilot project grants are tailored to…
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Empowering Smokers to Quit: UH researcher’s MASP App now in development to help African American smokers
Crushing the craving to smoke is no easy feat—perhaps a herculean task for many who have key…
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