News and Multimedia Featuring DSIR
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Primary Care Can Play Key Role in Suicide Prevention• Research Highlight
Adding suicide care practices to routine adult primary care visits reduced suicide attempts by 25% in the months after the visit.
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Improving Firearm Safety in Pediatric Primary Care• Research Highlight
An automatic reminder supported by low-burden facilitation increased delivery of a universal secure firearm storage program during pediatric primary care.
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Smartphone Data May Not Reliably Predict Depression Risk in Diverse Groups• Research Highlight
NIMH-supported research suggests AI tools built on smartphone data may struggle to predict clinical outcomes like depression in large and diverse groups of people.
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Collaborative Care Could Help Reduce Disparities in Mental Health Treatment• Research Highlight
In an NIMH-funded study, a comprehensive collaborative care intervention significantly reduced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among trauma patients from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds.
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Understanding the Availability of Mental Telehealth Services• Research Highlight
In an NIMH-funded study, researchers examine the availability and structure of mental telehealth services.
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Saving Lives Through the Science of Suicide Prevention• Feature Story
Evidence-based efforts to improve suicide risk screening, assessment, and intervention are helping to save lives, thanks to research supported by NIMH.
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Emergency Department Intervention Reduces Adult Suicide Risk• Research Highlight
Evidence-based practices for suicide prevention effectively reduced suicidal behaviors among adults seen for care in emergency departments.
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Helping People With Serious Mental Illness Quit Smoking• Research Highlight
In a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and published in JAMA Psychiatry, Gail Daumit, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University, A. Eden Evins, M.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and colleagues developed a tobacco smoking cessation intervention for people with serious mental illness.
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RAISE-ing the Standard of Care for Schizophrenia: The Rapid Adoption of Coordinated Specialty Care in the United States• Feature Story
The Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode research initiative, launched by NIMH to test the effectiveness of coordinated specialty care to treat first-episode psychosis, has transformed the mental health landscape in the United States and helped thousands of people with schizophrenia achieve better outcomes.
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Dr. Patricia A. Areán Named New Director of NIMH’s Division of Services and Intervention Research• Institute Update
Patricia A. Areán, Ph.D., has been selected as the new director of the National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR).
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Youth Emergency Department Visits for Mental Health Increased During Pandemic• Research Highlight
Hospital visits for urgent mental health care increased among children and teens in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an NIMH-supported study.
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Chatbot Encourages People With Eating Disorders to Seek Care• Research Highlight
In a new NIMH-funded study, Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine, and colleagues developed a chatbot to encourage people with eating disorders to connect with care.
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Medicaid Data Show Wide Differences in Mental Health Care in the United States• Research Highlight
A new NIMH-supported study revealed differences in rates of mental health care among Medicaid enrollees based on where they live in the United States.
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NIMH Turns Challenges into Opportunities• Research Highlight
The recent NIMH Mental Health Services Research conference covered a range of topics, including mental health equity, policy, and funding.
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Family-Based Intervention Lowers Long-Term Suicide Risk in Youth• Research Highlight
In a recent study supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, researchers examined the impact of a family-based intervention on suicide risk in youth and found risk-reduction benefits up to 10 years later.
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Study Furthers Understanding of Disparities in School Discipline• Research Highlight
A new NIMH-supported analysis shows that disciplinary disparities occur as early as preschool and that their effects can negatively influence how well students do in later years.
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Study Shows REACH VET Program Effective for Veterans at High Risk for Suicide• Research Highlight
A recent NIMH co-authored study shows that a Department of Veterans Affairs suicide prevention program was associated with fewer inpatient mental health admissions and emergency department visits, and a 5 percent reduction in documented suicide attempts.
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Mindful Mood Balance Effective for Treating Residual Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation• Research Highlight
NIMH-supported researchers have found an online mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy—called Mindful Mood Balance—is effective at reducing residual depressive symptoms and at reducing suicidal ideation in those who experience these symptoms.
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Multistage Autism Screening in Early Intervention Settings May Reduce Disparities• Research Highlight
An NIMH-supported study shows that incorporating a multistage screening process for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) into federally funded early intervention services may reduce disparities in early ASD diagnosis.
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Dr. Robert Heinssen to Step Down as DSIR Director• Institute Update
In June 2022, Robert Heinssen, Ph.D., ABPP, will step down as director of the NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR) and transition to a new role as a senior advisor in the NIMH Office of the Director.
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Improved Emotion Regulation in Dialectical Behavior Therapy Reduces Suicide Risk in Youth• Research Highlight
An analysis of clinical trial data shows that improvements in emotion regulation in youth at high risk for suicide who received dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) led to a reduction in self-harm behaviors.
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Assessing Suicide Risk Among Childbearing Women in the U.S. Before and After Giving Birth• Research Highlight
NIMH-supported researchers investigated suicide risk among women in the year before and year after giving birth.
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Investigating Unintentional Injury as a Risk Factor for Self-Harm• Research Highlight
In a recent study, NIMH-supported researchers found that certain types of unintentional injury have stronger associations with self-harm than others in adolescents.
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NIMH Addresses Critical Need for Rapid-Acting Interventions for Severe Suicide Risk• Research Highlight
NIMH is working to meet the urgent need for rapid-acting suicide prevention interventions by supporting research investigating the feasibility and safety of treatment protocols that have the potential to quickly reduce severe suicide risk in youth and adults.