Bridget K. Biggs, Ph.D., L.P.

Closed for Enrollment

• Development and Testing of an Inclusive Online Interactive Platform for Parents in Rural Settings to Promote Healthy Habits Rochester, Minn.

  The purpose of this study is to develop and pilot a functional prototype of a digital platform we are calling Parent Health Promotor (PHP). The purpose of PHP is to prompt and support parents in facilitating positive health behavior change within their families for long-term health and mitigate risk for cardiometabolic conditions. This project will focus specifically on parents/guardians living in rural areas with attention to ethnic/racial intersectionality, given documented health disparities related to metabolic health and related health behaviors.

• Effects of Symptom Severity, Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms, and Health Behaviors on Daily Functioning and Diagnosis of Pediatric Patients with POTS or Other Autonomic Dysfunction Rochester, Minn.

  The purpose of this study is to gather information about symptoms of autonomic dysfunction, depressive and anxiety symptoms, health behaviors, social support, and ability to do everyday tasks.

• Evaluation of the Families Improving Together Program for Telehealth Delivery in a Clinic Setting (FIT-T) Rochester, Minn.

  FIT is grounded in social cognitive, self-determination, and family systems theories and, as such, aims to promote healthy eating and movement habits by facilitating the development of parent-adolescent communication and problem-solving skills to support the adolescents’ and family’s pursuit of health behavior change goals.

• Low-Cost, Virtual Reality System to Increase Access to Exposure Therapy for Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Rochester, Minn.

  The purpose of this study is to evaluate the randomized controlled mixed methods of a Virtual Reality (VR) exposure therapy system in patients with anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders.

• Social Support and Motivators for Adolescent Weight Loss: Relations with Weight Management Behaviors Rochester, Minn.

  This study aims to examine associations of social support for healthful eating and physical activity with adolescents’ healthful and unhealthful weight management strategies and body mass index (BMI).  The study will compare motivators and level of motivation for adolescent weight loss between adolescents and parents and across care sites (i.e., primary care vs. specialty care for obesity). Finally, the study will examine the relations of adolescent- and parent-reported motivators and level of motivation for weight loss with adolescents’ healthful and unhealthful weight management strategies and BMI.