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New Moms Mood Tracking & Wellbeing study protocol published in journal Trials

August 08, 2024

A study protocol article on the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge’s New Moms Mood Tracking & Wellbeing study was published in the journal Trials on Aug. 8, 2024. Kate Wolitzky-Taylor, PhD, is lead author; several additional DGC-affiliated researchers received authorship credit, including senior author Michelle Craske, PhD.

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DGC is part of Wellcome-funded study leveraging STAND content to study cognitive behavioral therapy mechanisms and effectiveness

April 12, 2024

The Depression Grand Challenge is part of a project investigating the effects of CBT using STAND content to improve the effectiveness of depression treatment. The project, a large-scale factorial trial, seeks to measure how changes in STAND content may affect the intervention’s effectiveness for repetitive negative thinking.

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Findings from open trial of STAND system of care among UCLA students published in JMIR Mental Health

July 24, 2023

Findings from an open trial of the STAND system of care were published in the journal JMIR Mental Health on July 24, 2023. UCLA STAND ALACRITY Center Co-Director Kate Wolitzky-Taylor, PhD, is the paper’s lead author; several other DGC-affiliated researchers contributed.

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Recruitment opens for first treatment study at ELAC

August 29, 2022

Beginning today, ELAC students who sign up for the STAND at ELAC program have the option of enrolling in the STAND at ELAC research studies and earning up to $275 for their participation.

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NIMH awards $12 million grant to optimize STAND, explore expansion to more community colleges

May 01, 2022

The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge was awarded a five-year, $12 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to expand its STAND system of care, with a focus on reaching more California community college students.

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Kickoff of New Moms Mood Tracking & Wellbeing study

April 15, 2021

In an effort to understand more about depression experienced by pregnant and new moms, we are recruiting women who receive care at a UCLA OBGYN clinic and who are between week 28 of their pregnancy and 6 months postpartum.

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Initial set of STAND 2.0 content developed

April 01, 2020

In 2019, after collecting a great deal of feedback about and experience with the initial implementation of the STAND system of care with the UCLA student body, the DGC secured funding from our generous donors to reimagine the way we would deliver cognitive behavioral strategies to participants leveraging technology. Funding was designated for both the delivery mechanism, which we refer to as the STAND platform, and for the content.

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Discover Magazine article features Depression Grand Challenge approach to preventing, understanding, treating depression

October 09, 2019

Discover Magazine’s Nov. 2019 issue highlighted the Depression Grand Challenge’s efforts to understand the genetic and environmental causes of depression, and mentioned the STAND system of care.

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STAND system of care highlighted in Forbes

October 04, 2019

UCLA was among the campuses cited for its recognition of the need to deliver better and faster services to campus communities with the Depression Grand Challenge’s Screening and Treatment for Anxiety and Depression system of care.

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Depression Grand Challenge meets initial $2 million funding target for digital treatment platform

August 10, 2019

The funds will enable the DGC to upgrade the STAND Program (dubbed STAND 2.0), including an enhanced digital treatment platform and the creation of new algorithms and back-end tools.

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