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Addictive Behaviors
Symposia

Symposium 07 - Engaging Diverse Community Partners with Lived Experience using Human-Centered Design Principles to Develop Tailored Alcohol Interventions and Assessments

Friday, November 15, 2024
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
Location: Franklin 2, Level 4, Downtown Marriott
CE: 1.5

Keywords: Addictive Behaviors, Treatment Development, Measurement
Level of Familiarity: Basic to moderate
Recommended Readings: Abookire, S., Plover, C., Frasso, R., & Ku, B. (2020). Health Design Thinking: An Innovative Approach in Public Health to Defining Problems and Finding Solutions. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, 459–459. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00459,  

Boness, C. L., Watts, A. L., Moeller, K. N., & Sher, K. J. (2021). The Etiologic, Theory-Based, Ontogenetic Hierarchical Framework of Alcohol Use Disorder: A Translational Systematic Review of Reviews. Psychological Bulletin, 147(10), 1075–1123. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000333

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Chen, E., Leos, C., Kowitt, S. D., & Moracco, K. E. (2020). Enhancing Community-Based Participatory Research Through Human-Centered Design Strategies. Health Promotion Practice, 21(1), 37–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524839919850557

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Coulter, R. W. S., Siconolfi, D. E., Egan, J. E., & Chugani, C. D. (2020). Advancing LGBTQ Health Equity via Human-Centered Design. Psychiatric Services, 71(2), 109-. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.71201

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Alcohol use is an intricately complex and nuanced behavior to assess, treat, and understand, which demands that researchers learn from and with the individuals it affects. In line with the conference theme, “Inspiring Community Engagement, Advocacy, and Innovation to Advance CBT,” this symposium will illustrate community-engaged research that centers the lived experiences of people with high-risk alcohol use. In particular, the symposium will offer a tutorial on human-centered design (HCD) principles to co-develop alcohol use measures and interventions with community members.

HCD is a process that facilitates the co-creation of an end product or system. It empowers people with lived experience to break down the problem and generate a solution best tailored to their needs, rather than researchers imposing a solution on users (Abookire et al., 2020). Stemming from engineering, HCD is increasingly being applied in psychological science. This symposium will demonstrate that HCD is ideally suited for designing effective supports serving individuals along the alcohol use/disorder spectrum, particularly when partnering with people who have been underrepresented in research, because it promotes equity in the design process and enhances the usability of the supports.

These 5 methods-focused talks describe projects that embrace HCD in partnering with diverse groups with lived experience to drive innovation in the cognitive-behavioral assessment and treatment of alcohol use. Rather than focusing on individual findings, these talks will showcase the practice of community-engaged HCD in alcohol research and the mutual value of community partnerships.
Boness and Wang innovatively draw on individuals’ lived experiences via cognitive interviewing and community partnerships to develop critically needed alcohol use measures. Improved measurement, in turn, can inform precision treatment (Boness) and better reflect the experiences of Black individuals who have been underrepresented in alcohol measure development (Wang). Colditz leverages HCD methods to explore how individuals in recovery use online support forums, which will lead to a co-designed measure of online support and a behavioral intervention for online forum users. Both Kennedy and Haeny employ HCD principles with community partners to iteratively co-design interventions tailored to the needs of underserved groups – young adults with ADHD (Kennedy) and Black adults (Haeny). All five talks illustrate complementary collaborations with individuals with lived experience throughout the research process. They emphatically center the voices of individuals underrepresented in alcohol research to improve assessment and treatment. Speakers will discuss the benefits and challenges of community-engaged HCD alcohol research through specific examples and will provide practical recommendations.

Discussant Sarah Pedersen will draw on her community-engaged research and expertise on alcohol use inequities among minoritized individuals to underscore key themes and highlight opportunities to expand HCD methods in alcohol research.
Collectively, this symposium will inspire attendees to practice community-engaged HCD and equip them with concrete tools and resources to do so.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
  1. Describe two advantages of human-centered design (HCD) for research on alcohol use.
  2. Summarize the benefits and challenges of engaging community members with lived experience throughout the research process.
  3. List at least two examples of HCD methods.
  4. Explain how community-engaged HCD practices enhance alcohol use assessment and intervention development.
  5. Describe two ways HCD methods that engage people with lived experience can be applied in alcohol or other cognitive-behavioral research.

Presentations:

  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    (SYM 7) Engaging People with Lived Experience in the Development of Assessment Tools for Alcohol Use Disorder to Facilitate Testing Precision Medicine Hypotheses

    Speaker: Cassandra Boness, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of New Mexico

  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    (SYM 7) Cognitive Interviewing with Diverse Voices to Improve Measurement of Impaired Control over Alcohol Consumption

    Speaker: Frances Wang, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

    Co-author: Deepa Thomas, BA (she/her/hers) – University of pittsburgh medical center

    Co-author: Brooke Molina, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    (SYM 7) Using Human Centered Design Methods to Understand the Experiential Process of Providing Online Peer Recovery Support for Alcohol-related Problems

    Speaker: Jason B. Colditz, M.Ed., Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    (SYM 7) Using Human-centered Design with Neurodivergent Young Adults and Community Partners to Develop a Smartphone-based Intervention for Problematic Drinking

    Speaker: Traci Kennedy, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

    Co-author: Aiden Williard, BA (he/him/his) – University of pittsburgh medical center

    Co-author: Brooke Molina, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

    Co-author: Sarah Pedersen, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh

  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST
    (SYM 7) Partnering with the Black Community to Inform How to Better Target Racial Stressors in Alcohol Treatment

    Speaker: Angela Haeny, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Yale University School of Medicine