Cognitive Control in Children of SUD Parents: A Longitudinal Multimodal MRI study
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19Start & end year
20202021Known Financial Commitments (USD)
$230,375Funder
National Institutes of Health (NIH)Principal Investigator
PendingResearch Location
United States of AmericaLead Research Institution
Columbia UniversityResearch Priority Alignment
N/A
Research Category
Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures
Research Subcategory
Indirect health impacts
Special Interest Tags
N/A
Study Type
Non-Clinical
Clinical Trial Details
N/A
Broad Policy Alignment
Pending
Age Group
Unspecified
Vulnerable Population
Unspecified
Occupations of Interest
Unspecified
Abstract
As the world experiences unprecedented challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, ~15million collegiate students, who are among our nation's healthiest individuals, are facing multiple immediate andlong-term consequences to their mental and physical health, academic careers and post-graduate prospects.These students had been in the middle of an important developmental and educational phase of their lives whenthe COVID-19 pandemic arrived. Their developmental trajectories are now being impacted in unprecedentedways, which has both individual and national importance. However, college students are in the unique positionof being "embedded" within the institutional structures of their colleges and universities. With adequate data andknowledge, these institutions can positively impact how students navigate stressors and influence whether theyshow resilience and thrive or develop complicating substance and mental conditions. Using individual academicemails, our partnering academic institutions whose student bodies collectively constitute ~60% of all USundergraduate students, will invite students to join this study. Using an online survey we will obtain consent andcollect baseline information on: demographics, personal/family COVID-19 infections and outcomes, access toCOVID-19 information, effect of the pandemic on housing, food security, finances, social relationships,effectiveness of distance learning, stress related to changes in daily life activities, sources of support, and pre-pandemic/current employment and SU/MH status. We will report these findings in the aggregate and byinstitution to allow for rapid revision of institutional responses. This will lay the groundwork for a definitivelongitudinal study of the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on these young lives. Study findings arenot only certain to inform academic responses to student needs now, but also identify ways that service providersand academic institutions can better respond to these needs over time.