CIPY: Funded Research Projects of Center Faculty
Ongoing Projects
Translating an Effective Teen Driving Program for Parents to Primary Care.
This project is a collaboration between the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and the American Academy of Pediatrics to evaluate the translation of the Checkpoints Program for delivery to parents via a brief intervention by primary care providers of teens with referral to an interactive website. The project's goal is to offer a sustainable and appealing delivery mode that could be widely adopted and institutionalized to reduce the high toll of traffic crashes on teenagers.
Shope (PI) 09/01/09 - 08/31/12
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - National Center for Injury Prevention and Control $1,289,504
Optimizing Alcohol SBIRT for Adolescents in the ED
The primary specific aims are to determine the most effective combination of ED-based and follow-up based intervention strategies for decreasing alcohol misuse and improving health-related outcomes (injury, mental health and other risk behaviors) at 6 and 12 months. The proposed study will use computerized screening (~5,700 patients) and will test developmentally appropriate, tailored intervention strategies in a two-factorial design (3x2). Specifically, 900 patients aged 14-20 in the ED who screen positive for problematic alcohol use (AUDIT score >=2 ages 14-17 and >=3 ages 18-20) in the past 3 months will be randomized to the combinations of three ED-based conditions (computer brief intervention-CBI; intervener delivered brief intervention-IBI; enhanced usual care-EUC), and two follow-up conditions (adapted motivational enhancement therapy-AMET; enhanced usual care-EUC) that will take place 3 months post-ED.
Cunningham/Walton (Co-PIs), Blow, Barry, Ehrlich 06/01/09 - 03/31/14
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism $2,541,831
Substance Use and Violent Injury among Youth in an Urban ED - Services & Outcomes
The specific aims of the study are: (1) To describe characteristics of youth (ages 14-24) who report illicit drug use presenting to an urban ED for an acute violent injury (n=400), compared to youth with drug use who seek non-violence related ED care (n=400); (2) To identify the trajectories of participants’ interactions with health services during the two years following their ED visit and the key characteristics (i.e., predisposing, enabling, and need factors) associated with types of service use (substance use treatment, mental health, and medical/ ED) and barriers to these services; and, (3) To measure two-year outcomes for this cohort and to identify key socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of youth with drug use, who have poor outcomes in the two years after ED visit for intentional injury and other medical care.
Cunningham (PI), Blow, Walton, Zimmerman 05/01/09 - 05/31/14
National Institute on Drug Abuse $1,948,881
Translating the Checkpoints Program for Statewide Distribution on the Web
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the translation of the Checkpoints Program for statewide adoption in Michigan using a sustainable and portable approach. The following aims are being addressed: 1) Develop a promotional plan, and examine the adaptability and fidelity of the Checkpoints Program when it is disseminated over the Web; 2) Identify parental, organizational, and program administration factors related to the dissemination, implementation, institutionalization and health outcomes of a web-based Checkpoints Program; and 3) Measure promotional program effectiveness in the dissemination, implementation, institutionalization and health outcomes of a Web-based Checkpoints Program.
Bingham (PI), Shope 9/1/08 - 8/31/12
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $1,300,000
Translating Teen Driver and Parent Interventions into Diverse Practice Settings
Goals are to identify how Graduated Driver Licensing’s GDL) effectiveness can be improved by reducing barriers and enhancing facilitators of adherence to GDL; identify how Checkpoints can be efficiently and effectively introduced into GDL; to identify factors that contribute to disparities in access to driver licensure through GDL and parent involvement in learning to drive; to survey parents nationwide to determine generalizability of findings; and to recommend guidelines for improving adherence to GDL and enhancing parental involvement in teen driving.
Bingham (PI), Shope, Parker, Caldwell 9/30/07 - 9/29/10
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $1,327,395
Adolescent Emergency Patients: Suicide Risk Detection and Treatment Facilitation
The goal of this project is to develop a treatment linkage intervention for adolescents who are seeking emergency services and found to be at elevated risk for suicidal behavior.
King (PI), Cunningham, Ghaziuddih, Joe, Resnicow, Walton 08/01/07 - 05/31/10
National Institute of Mental Health $405,000
Pilot Assessment of the Use of a Device for Parental Monitoring of Novice Teen Drivers
The two main objectives of this study are to 1) Determine what if any of various types of devices families would choose to monitor their teens’ driving if given the choice, and the reasons motivating their choices; and, 2) Among families who agree to use a device of our choosing, how do they use the device and what are the proximal outcomes of use (including satisfaction, relationship issues, technology issues, etc.).
Bingham (PI), Shope 8/17/06 - 7/29/09
National Institute on Child Health and Human Development $83,100
Tailored Web Program to Reduce At-Risk College Drinking
This study addresses the following Aims: 1) Develop a theory-directed, four-session, web-based tailored brief motivational intervention to prevent/reduce at-risk drinking (ARD) among underage freshmen college students. 2) Evaluate the efficacy of the intervention to reduce ARD. 3) Identify the baseline ARD behaviors and attitudes of participants who: complete 1, 2, 3, and four intervention/control sessions on the Web; and complete the 6-, 12-, and 18-month follow-ups. The study will examine predictors of participation and dropout. If effective, the proposed intervention could be inexpensively modified to deliver effective interventions to large numbers of university students, members of other populations, and to target other health risk behaviors.
Bingham (PI), Shope, Walton 1/01/06 - 12/31/09
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism $1,779,501
Reducing Motor Vehicle Crash Risk among Adolescent Drivers: Taking Checkpoints to the Next Level
The major goal of this project is to conduct a randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of training driver education instructors to deliver the Michigan Checkpoints program to parents and teens as one hour of the driver education curriculum (to be delivered during Segment 2). Checkpoints is a brief intervention to enhance parental awareness of risks, encourage use of a parent/teen agreement, and promote parental monitoring of early teen driving.
Shope (PI), Bingham 9/30/05 - 08/31/09
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $492,440
Tailored Teen Alcohol and Violence Prevention in the ER
The major goal of this project is to develop, implement, and evaluate a computer-based intervention to reduce alcohol use and violence among adolescents presenting at an urban Emergency Department.
Walton (PI), Cunningham, Zimmerman, Bingham, Shope 03/01/05 - 02/28/10
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism $2,024,375
Youth Empowerment Solutions for Peaceful Communities (YES)
The goals of the project are to provide youth with opportunities for meaningful involvement in preventing youth violence and creating community change, to enhance neighborhood organizations’ ability to engage youth in their activities, and to change the social and physical environment to reduce and prevent violence.
Zimmerman (PI), Reischl, Kruger, Morrel-Samuels 09/01/04 - 08/31/09
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $2,016,200
Completed Projects
The Fathers and Sons Replication Project
This project involves planning the next steps for implementing and evaluating the Fathers and Sons intervention program in several cities around the country.
Mincy (Columbia PI), Caldwell (UM PI) 09/01/07 - 10/31/08
Ford Foundation $200,000
Risk and Protective Factors Related to Motor Vehicle Crash among Teen Drivers
This study will provide a better understanding of risk and protective factors related to crashes involving teen drivers, and will advance the development of intervention, public policy and law enforcement programs that strategically target and decrease the incidence of crashes among teen drivers.
Bingham (PI), Shope 9/01/05 - 4/30/07
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $99,900
Flint Fathers and Sons Evaluation Project
This project evaluated the effectiveness of a family-centered intervention designed to prevent or reduce youth risky behaviors, including substance use, violent behavior, and early sexual initiation, among African American preadolescents boys by strengthening relationships with their non-resident fathers.
Caldwell (PI), De Loney, Reischl, Zimmerman 9/30/02 - 9/29/06
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $386,722
Evaluation of Michigan’s Graduated Licensing Program for New Drivers/Checkpoints in Driver Education
The original goal of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of Michigan’s GDL on traffic offenses, crashes, injuries and fatalities. After that goal was completed, under an amendment that created an interagency agreement between NHTSA and NICHD, the goal of the project was to conduct a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of the Checkpoints parent-teen driving agreement in Michigan, as delivered through driver education.
Shope (PI) 4/01/97 - 03/31/08
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development $758,918
Alcohol-Related Risk Behavior: Adolescent to Young Adult
Young adults (age 21-34) have the highest rate of at-risk drinking and drinking/driving of any age group. Using Problem Behavior Theory as the main conceptual approach, this study will advance theory explaining the development of these behaviors, providing in-depth understanding of their increasing, decreasing, stable or variable patterns over time. The study will address three aims: 1) Characterize longitudinal young adult patterns of at-risk drinking and drinking/driving; 2) Determine adolescent characteristics that predict young adult at-risk drinking and drinking/driving; and 3) Develop new statistical models and estimation methods for analyzing combined multiple series of longitudinal data.
Shope (PI), Bingham, Raghunathan 09/27/91 - 06/30/08
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism $7,202,694
