Sona Dimidjian’s research while affiliated with University of Colorado Boulder and other places

... Planning and monitoring processes were not reported by learners during lab lessons, and substantial structure is provided to learners to alleviate the need to undertake such processes within lessons. To observe engagement in planning and monitoring activities, courses with different designs could be studied, and intentional co-design with instructors could be undertaken (Potvin et al., 2024). Codesign can provide opportunities to develop materials that encourage learners to engage more fully in self-regulated learning, but less external regulation during planning and evaluation phases, as high structure designs that impose constraints upon learners that approximate instances of external regulation and co-regulation (Hadwin, Järvelä, & Miller, 2011) are authentic to higher education given their prevalence but prevent observation of all SRL processes. ...

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Using Multimodal Learning Analytics to Validate Digital Traces of Self-Regulated Learning in a Laboratory Study and Predict Performance in Undergraduate Courses

... Numerous studies have documented a strong link between SOB and decreased loneliness (Kusci et al., 2023;Mellinger et al., 2023). Various mechanisms may account for the beneficial impact of a sense of belonging on reducing feelings of loneliness. ...

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A serial mediation model of sense of belonging to university and life satisfaction: The role of social loneliness and depression

... Although some commonly used meta-analytic methods (e.g., weighting study-level effect size estimates by the inverse of their variance, using trim-and-fill analyses to estimate the impact of publication bias) can address some of the limitations of small sample studies particularly when sufficient primary studies are included, meta-analytic inferences based on such data are not immune from small sample biases and may therefore lead to erroneous conclusions (Lin, 2018;Simonsohn et al., 2022). While a couple of well-powered studies on mediators in MBIs have been conducted (e.g., Dimidjian et al., 2023), the field of MBI research has produced little strong evidence of statistical mediation and as a consequence, a dearth of knowledge to advance research toward a causal understanding of MBI effects. ...

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Psychological Mediators of Reduced Distress: Preregistered Analyses From a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Smartphone-Based Well-Being Training

... Following a safety protocol trigger, a study clinician would contact the participant as soon as possible and, according to clinical judgment, call the participant's emergency contact. Participants were also provided with safety resources, including the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, and the safety protocol was modeled after that used in a large federally funded study (Preventing Depressive Relapse in Pregnant Women with Recurrent Depression; National Institute of Mental Health; NCT03623620), where participants (N=500) were assessed for depression across the pregnancy and postpartum periods [48]. ...

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Testing a Behavioral Activation Gaming App for Depression During Pregnancy: Multimethod Pilot Study

... In this data, 85.1% of respondents reported encountering suicide cases, and 36% of them were either engaged J Indon Med Assoc, Volum: 73, Nomor: 5, Oktober -November 2023 in or preparing to end their lives. 6 Research by Liem A, et al 7 stated that 39.3% of respondents in Indonesia committed self-harm and had suicidal ideas during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID- 19) pandemic. ...

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The Psychotherapy Practice of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Group Skills Training in Indonesia: An Indonesian Language Module Development

... The research findings indicated that the frequency of issues measured in the third trimester was positively 15 (Chaput et al., 2023) Canada Trial the effectiveness of a behavioral activation intervention and remote peer support, provided by trained peer counselors, to increase gestational age at delivery in individuals with antenatal depression. The secondary objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention in reducing antenatal depression symptoms before delivery, with sustainability into the post-partum period, improving anxiety symptoms, and increasing self-efficacy in parenting compared to the control group. ...

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Optimizing Postpartum Depression Prevention in Primary Health Care Services

... From the normative perspective of 'democratizing technology', the depression forums can be 'reinvented' in an emancipatory manner (Feenberg & Friesen, 2012). Several examples of similar inventions can be mentioned: an online mindfulness-based logotherapy programme for adolescents (Maria Michael & Reyes, 2023); a web-based mindfulness programme for new and expectant mothers (Metcalf et al., 2023) or a tele-behavioural health training (Felker et al., 2023) -these are just few recent ones. The online depression forums' untapped potential can be revealed from their perspective: by understanding the expansive medicalization and psychologization discourses, the chance for countering the misinterpretation of social suffering as a mere psychopathology increases. ...

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The Manifest and Latent Structures of Medicalization and Psychologization in Lay Depression Discourses — A Word Embedding Analysis of Online Forums

... The aforementioned inconsistencies might be due, in part, to differences in the application of mindfulness interventions. In the current study, the control and intervention groups received interventions that were identical to mindfulness-based practice, namely, relaxing music versus mediation (Graham et al., 2022), reading books and discussion with other readers versus meditation (Mealer et al., 2021), group. In addition, the design and delivery of mindfulness-based interventions fully relies on the researchers and varies across studies (Creswell, 2017;White, 2014). ...

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Effects of mindfulness-based interventions on reducing psychological distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

... Pregnant persons are less likely to be screened and treated for depression and anxiety compared to pre-and post-natal periods [1][2][3] and less than half of pregnant people with mental health care needs received referral or treatment during pregnancy. [4][5][6] Attempts to initiate or maintain mental health care during pregnancy can be difficult for patients due to incomplete or unhelpful information from providers, family, friends, media, and internet sources and concerns about being judged as an unfit parent by providers or family. [7] Patients have also reported that their maternal and mental health care providers appeared unable or unwilling to discuss the treatment of mental health conditions, including the use of psychopharmacology, during pregnancy. ...

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Supporting psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners’ preparedness to treat mental health concerns during pregnancy: Results from a grounded theory study

... Heightened stress and psychopathology during pregnancy, in turn, are associated with negative consequences for parent and infant health and well-being during the postpartum period [8,9]. In addition to being a period of vulnerability for psychopathology, pregnancy simultaneously offers a critical opportunity for intervention [10,11]. Thus, early identification of parental internalizing problems, accompanied by evidence-based psychological interventions, is of particular importance for promoting individual and family well-being across this high-risk period. ...

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Trajectories of Maternal and Paternal Internalizing Symptoms from Pregnancy to 2 Years Postpartum: Identifying Modifiable Risk and Protective Factors