BREATHE: Stress Management for Nurses
BREATHE is a web-based stress management program specifically oriented toward the unique occupational stressors of nursing. Because nurses are often on the move, this multi-media program includes a mobile application accessible by smartphones and tablets. BREATHE was tested at Mount Sinai Hospital and Inova Health Systems, with significant effects shown on nurses’ stress.
Taking Charge
Working adults are susceptible to a variety of risky behaviors that can interfere with their health and productivity, including alcohol misuse. Our research has shown that substance abuse issues among working adults are best addressed by imbedding such material within the broader, more positive framework of health and wellness. Accordingly, Taking Charge is a mobile Internet-based program designed to promote the health and wellness of employees while also helping them avoid alcohol misuse.
THRIVE!
Informal caregivers perform an important service in caring for an ailing relative, but often do so at considerable cost to their own well-being. The web-based THRIVE! program is designed to address caregiver’s self-care needs in a comprehensive manner emphasizing the reciprocal nature of perceptions, mood, and health behaviors. The intervention capitalizes on recent advances in mobile technologies, including responsive web design, assessments with personalized tracking of program content, and an online coach.
Aging Well
Unsafe alcohol consumption puts older adults at particular risk for multiple health problems, accidents, and hazardous interactions with medications requiring increased services and health care costs. Aging Well is innovative, web-based alcohol misuse prevention intervention imbedded into a more general health promotion program for older adults.
Products in development
ISA always has multiple products in the pipeline, including the following programs currently in development:
STEPS
Hispanics living in rural communities are disproportionately affected by Type 2 diabetes risk, prevalence, and outcomes. Further, structural barriers prevent these communities from receiving diabetes education and prevention. STEPS is the first mHealth diabetes prevention program that can be accessed from a mobile device. Program scheduled for completion in 2025.
Comadres Saludables
Hispanic women are more likely to be obese than Hispanic men (45% vs. 39.7, respectively). Promotores are effective in delivering obesity interventions and promoting behavior change through enhanced motivation, social support, social interaction and connectedness, and self-efficacy. However, there lacks adequate and accessible promotora training necessary for effective implementation of these interventions. Comadres Saludables is a web-based community health worker training for the implementation of a health living intervention for Latinas. Program scheduled for completion in 2026.
Relax & Rise
African American men experience the highest rates of hypertension in the United States and face greater challenges in blood pressure control. This health disparity is critical, as elevated blood pressure is the primary modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Stress, including the distinct form of stress that arises from racial discrimination, plays a significant role in this disparity. Relax & Rise is a mobile cognitive behavioral stress management intervention specifically designed for African American men to manage racial and nonracial sources of stress and reduce hypertension disparities. Program scheduled for completion in 2026.