The Pilot Project Core of CTBH is designed to support novel pilot project grants that facilitate the rapid execution of research and offer considerable promise to have a large impact on the field. CTBH has funded 13 innovative pilot projects on topics ranging from novel mobile health methodologies and analytics, passive sensing via wearable sensors, and novel technology-based interventions.
Recently awarded pilot grants include: (1) the use of video-gaming to prevent cigarette and marijuana use among adolescents, (2) the use of mobile technologies to identify predictors of violence among persons with co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders, and (3) a translation of the strongly empirically-supported Individual Placement and Support (IPS) supported employment model for psychiatric disorders for use with persons with addiction via the use of mobile technology.
Pilots also include: (4) a novel, integrated platform for buprenorphine adherence among opioid-dependent individuals, (5) an innovative methodology to enhance individual engagement with technology-based therapeutic tools, (6) mixed methods approaches to evaluating technology-based therapeutic tools, (7) a computerized substance use interview for persons with severe mental illness,(8) a web-based smoking cessation intervention for persons with schizophrenia, and (9) a mobile application for parents with co-occurring addiction and mental illness.
Additional innovative pilot projects include: 10) an assessment the feasibility of mapping substance craving with wearable and mobile sensors, (11) a remote monitoring technology that uses inertial sensors and a movement-detection algorithm to identify smoking events, (12) a mobile phone-based carbon monoxide measure to detect smoking, and (13) an electronic cigarette container which interactively communicates with the smart phone of the smoker.
More detail about these pilot projects and their potential public health relevance can be found at:
https://www.c4tbh.org/the-center/what-we-re-up-to/funded-pilots.html