https://pittplusme.org/study/1783
Social Media Assessment of Risk in Teens (SMART) – Healthy 18 year olds
STUDY BASICS
Healthy 18 year olds may be able to participate in a study to help evaluate whether social media can be used to detect risk for depression and suicide in teens. Eligible participants have at least one social media account. This study involves 1 visit. Compensation is provided.
IRB: STUDY18060001D
- Social Media Assessment of Risk in Teens (SMART)
MEET THE RESEARCHERS
Candice Biernesser
Candice Biernesser, PhD, LCSW, is a postdoctoral scholar and licensed clinical social worker at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Biernesser received her PhD from the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Prior to and during her doctoral study she worked alongside her long-standing mentor, Dr. David Brent, and took a leadership role in his studies about the transmission of suicidal behavior in families and clinical trials focused on adolescent suicide prevention. As part of her work with Dr. Brent, she also co-invented the Brite app, a safety planning and emotion regulation smartphone app that aims to reduce suicidal risk among adolescents. Dr. Biernesser is a co-investigator of the Social Media Assessment of Risk in Teens (SMART) study and is also involved with the Upstander Junior project, which aims to develop an online cyberbullying prevention intervention.
Jamie Zelazny
Jamie Zelazny, PhD, MPH, RN, is Assistant Professor of Health & Community Systems at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. Dr. Zelazny has more than 30 years of psychiatric nursing experience in clinical and research settings. Her research is focused on the use of technology to identify and manage suicidal thoughts and behavior in youth. She also has a strong interest in the protection of human subjects in research involving technology and in research involving suicidal individuals.