This Research Scientist Development Award (K01) will provide the candidate with skills to pursue an independent program of research specializing in the prevention of childhood anxiety disorders. This award will be pursued within the context of ASU's Prevention Research Center where the sponsor will be Dr. Nancy Gonzales. The applicant is seeking training in prevention science, school-based intervention research, and conducting research within the contexts of cultural diversity in order to help reduce the incidence of anxiety disorders and their sequela (depression, and early initiation of the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other illicit drugs). The training plan includes coursework and mentoring in prevention science theory, preventive intervention development theory, statistical approaches relevant to prevention trials, issues in conducting school-based research (including the ethical conduct of research in school settings), theory and methods for studying factors impacting the mental health of ethnic minorities, and strategies for studying within group variability on cultural dimensions. One goal of the proposed research is to identify potential barriers to implementing a school-based anxiety preventive intervention, identify strategies to overcome these barriers, and use this information to pilot a school-based indicated intervention. Another goal is to refine a theoretical model to facilitate the study of mechanisms by which anxiety preventive interventions may affect change and factors that may impact these preventive effects. The research plan relies on qualitative and quantitative strategies. Focus groups will be conducted with stakeholders (school personnel, parents, students) to develop a plan for implementing anxiety prevention in the schools in a way that fits with their needs, priorities, capacities, and preferences. With this information, a pilot study of an indicated school-based intervention will be conducted aimed at refining the school-based screening, recruitment, and intervention implementation procedures, and at providing an estimate of program effects to support a future efficacy and theory development indicated prevention trial.

Public Health Relevance

This K01 will help me conceptualize a school-based prevention trial examining mediators of anxiety prevention and moderators of preventive outcomes in a sample that includes a large segment of Mexican origin youth. By examining mechanisms of change and factors that may impact preventive effects, I hope to optimize outcomes and ultimately increase the ability of """"""""at risk"""""""" youth to live full and productive lives.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Research Scientist Development Award - Research & Training (K01)
Project #
5K01MH086687-04
Application #
8429518
Study Section
Community Influences on Health Behavior (CIHB)
Program Officer
Hill, Lauren D
Project Start
2010-06-01
Project End
2015-02-28
Budget Start
2013-03-01
Budget End
2014-02-28
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2013
Total Cost
$178,902
Indirect Cost
$13,252
Name
Arizona State University-Tempe Campus
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
943360412
City
Tempe
State
AZ
Country
United States
Zip Code
85287
Parker, Julia H; Van Lenten, Scott A; Pina, Armando A (2017) Control Over Anxiety and Dispositional Coping Tendencies Are Associated With Presleep Arousal Among Children Referred for Anxiety Problems. Behav Sleep Med 15:318-329
Stoll, Ryan; Pina, Armando; Gary, Kevin et al. (2017) Usability of a Smartphone Application to Support the Prevention and Early Intervention of Anxiety in Youth. Cogn Behav Pract 24:393-404
Scott, Brandon G; Pina, Armando A; Parker, Julia H (2017) Reluctance to express emotion explains relation between cognitive distortions and social competence in anxious children. Br J Dev Psychol :
Holly, Lindsay E; Little, Michelle; Pina, Armando A et al. (2015) Assessment of anxiety symptoms in school children: a cross-sex and ethnic examination. J Abnorm Child Psychol 43:297-309
Holly, Lindsay E; Pina, Armando A (2015) Variations in the influence of parental socialization of anxiety among clinic referred children. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 46:474-84
Zerr, Argero A; Pina, Armando A (2014) Predictors of Initial Engagement in Child Anxiety Mental Health Specialty Services. Child Youth Care Forum 43:151-164
Pina, Armando A; Little, Michelle; Wynne, Henry et al. (2014) Assessing social anxiety in African American youth using the social phobia and anxiety inventory for children. J Abnorm Child Psychol 42:311-20
Pina, Armando A; Gonzales, Nancy A (2014) The role of theory and culture in child and adolescent prevention science: introduction to the special section. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 43:397-9
Pina, Armando A; Holly, Lindsay E; Zerr, Argero A et al. (2014) A personalized and control systems engineering conceptual approach to target childhood anxiety in the contexts of cultural diversity. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 43:442-53
Pina, Armando A; Zerr, Argero A; Villalta, Ian K et al. (2012) Indicated prevention and early intervention for childhood anxiety: a randomized trial with Caucasian and Hispanic/Latino youth. J Consult Clin Psychol 80:940-6

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