Mental Health and Behaviour

The purpose of this study is to adapt and pilot test a mobile app-based motivational interviewing pre-treatment intervention for women on eating disorder clinic waitlists. Broadly, the project aims to improve individuals' motivation to recover from their eating disorder while they are waiting for services. The mobile app will include seven self-help sessions consisting of videos, articles and exercises.

The purpose of this study is to understand the link between schizophrenia and heat. People with schizophrenia have died at disproportionately high rates in recent heat events. While there is some physiological and biomedical understanding of thermoregulation in people with schizophrenia, understandings of their social vulnerability is lacking. Through interviews with people with schizophrenia, as well as their caregivers and loved ones, the study team aims to get a fuller understanding of their experiences in extreme heat events.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a peer-led mental health support program, REACHOUT, for rural and remote communities in British Columbia. REACHOUT is a mobile app that provides free peer-led mental health support to adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D). The REACHOUT intervention spans over six months and empowers adults with T1D to join as either a peer supporter, who will be trained to provide social and emotional assistance, or as a participant, who will receive invaluable support from empathetic peer supporters.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of 25mg of psilocybin versus a placebo in subjects with alcohol use disorder through analysis of the number of heavy drinking days over the eight-week treatment period.

The purpose of this study is to measure patterns of hepatitis C virus (HCV) reinfection after achieving an undetectable viral load at end of treatment on direct-acting aniviral therapy; to determine the threshold of risk reduction practices that protects against HCV reinfection after achieving an undetectable viral load; and to evaluate the potential impact of successful HCV treatment in terms of health care costs and resource utilization.

The purpose of this study is to test a novel psychoeducational intervention for individuals at high risk for bipolar disorder (BD). BD affects over two per cent of the population and is commonly based on self-reported history of (hypo)manic episodes that are frequently underreported. This can result in a substantial delay in the accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment initiation of BD which is linked to poor clinical and functional outcomes.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of intermittent theta burst (iTBS) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in improving depression symptoms over an accelerated treatment course of eight treatments per day for five days.

The purpose of this study is to assess whether a phone texting service will improve quality of care provided to the patients discharged from the Joseph & Rosalie Segal Family Health Centre at Vancouver General Hospital. Providing additional support, via their mobile phones, and connection to a care navigator, especially after discharge from psychiatric inpatient units may help patients make a seamless transition from hospital to community-based care and can potentially reduce losses to follow-up and unplanned readmissions to hospital.

The purpose of this study is to explore whether heart rate variability (HRV) normalization may serve as a surrogate marker of the changes in brain function caused by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) that are associated with symptomatic improvement in depression.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of a peer navigation program for men with prostate and a peer navigator training course called the True North Peer Navigation program. The study will evaluate patient outcomes such as their ability to take a more active role in their health, quality of life, social support and use of health care services, in addition to the experiences of patients and peer navigators and the factors that make it easier or harder for people to deliver the program to patients in different settings.

The purpose of this study is to understand how race/ethnicity data is collected alongside other sociodemographic data and to gain perspectives on how collecting race/ethnicity data can be used to inform culturally safe mental health care services and supports for diverse patient groups.

The purpose of this study is to look at the link between regions of brain activity and impulsivity and to look at a non-invasive intervention called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to help reduce the risk of impulsive behaviours.

The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of magnetic seizure therapy for treating depression in patients diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.