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UCSF is exploring if being outdoors helps mental health and if meditation apps can boost emotional well-being in older adults. They use brain imaging to study these feelings. </p></div></div><div class="row"> <div class="col col-md-9 col-lg-8 "> <div class="trials-list--filter-container card bg-light text-center mb-3 d-none d-print-none" data-nosnippet><div class="card-body p-1"><span class="trials-list--filter-main-heading d-none d-md-inline"> Showing <span class="trials-list--number-of-trials-shown" aria-live="assertive"></span> trials for </span><div class="btn-group btn-group-sm btn-group-toggle ml-3" role="group" aria-label="Filter trials by sex/gender" data-toggle="buttons"> <label class="btn btn-light mr-1 active"> <input checked type="radio" name="trials-list--filter-sex" data-class-wanted=""> <i class="fa fa-male d-none d-lg-inline" aria-hidden="true"></i><i class="fa fa-female d-none d-lg-inline" aria-hidden="true"></i> All </label> <label class="btn btn-light mr-1"> <input type="radio" name="trials-list--filter-sex" data-class-wanted="trials-list--trial-open-to-sex-female"> <i class="fa fa-female d-none d-lg-inline" aria-hidden="true"></i> Female </label> <label class="btn btn-light mr-1"> <input type="radio" name="trials-list--filter-sex" data-class-wanted="trials-list--trial-open-to-sex-male"> <i class="fa fa-male d-none d-lg-inline" aria-hidden="true"></i> Male </label> </div><div class="btn-group btn-group-sm btn-group-toggle ml-3" role="group" aria-label="Filter trials by age range" data-toggle="buttons"> <label class="btn btn-light active"><input checked type="radio" name="trials-list--filter-age" data-class-wanted="">All ages</label> <label class="btn btn-light"><input type="radio" name="trials-list--filter-age" data-class-wanted="trials-list--trial-open-to-age-under-18">Under 18</label> <label class="btn btn-light"><input type="radio" name="trials-list--filter-age" data-class-wanted="trials-list--trial-open-to-age-18-and-over">Over 18</label> </div></div></div> <ul class="list-unstyled" id="trials-list"><li class="trials-list--trial card border trials-list--trial-joinable trials-list--trial-open-to-age-under-18 trials-list--trial-open-to-sex-female trials-list--trial-open-to-sex-male trials-list--trial-open-to-healthy "><div class="card-body"><h2 class="h4 card-title"> <a href="https://clinicaltrials.ucsf.edu/trial/NCT05973123" class="stretched-link">BLOOM: Boldly Living outdOOrs for Mental Health</a> </h2><div class="trials-list--trial-details"><p class="h6 "> <i class="fa fa-user d-none d-md-inline fa-small-icon" aria-hidden="true"></i> open to eligible people ages 9-12 </p><div class="trials-list--trial-summary"><p>In 2019, the Office of the California Surgeon General launched the ACEs Aware Initiative in collaboration with the California Department of Health Care Services. This ambitious campaign aims to develop a network of care model of healthcare delivery that explicitly links health resources within communities to clinicians screening patients for ACEs. The ACEs Aware Initiative recognizes nature experiences as one of seven "stress busters." Indeed, California boasts many outdoor resources for clinicians to integrate into the network of care. Through a calming effect on the autonomic nervous system, providing a setting for supportive relationships to develop and physical activity to occur, time in nature may help California prevent, heal and treat ACEs and the clinical sequelae. As one of the most common psychiatric disorders in youth, anxiety remains one of the most important sequelae of ACEs. There is a gap in evidence evaluating nature-based programs for child mental health. This study will evaluate BLOOM [Boldly Living outdOOrs for Mental health], a new intervention which is a modified version of an existing nature-based curriculum called SHINE (Stay Healthy In Nature Everyday) curriculum currently in place at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, which takes youth and their families into nature once a month for stress relief. This new intervention mirrors SHINE except that it will be tailored to children ages 9-12 with a history of ACEs and current anxiety. This study will evaluate the benefits of a group intervention model, an independent nature-outing model, and a comparison to a wait-listed control group. Our goal is to provide a scalable model for low-cost mental health care to the California Department of Health Care Services.</p></div><p itemprop="location" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Place" class="text-right text-muted small"><meta itemprop="name" content="UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals"> <i class="fa fa-map-marker fa-fw" aria-hidden="true"></i> <span itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/PostalAddress"> <strong> <span itemprop="addressLocality">Oakland</span>, <span itemprop="addressRegion">California</span><meta itemprop="postalCode" content="94609"><meta itemprop="addressCountry" content="United States"> </strong> </span></p></div></div></li><li class="trials-list--trial card border trials-list--trial-joinable trials-list--trial-open-to-age-18-and-over trials-list--trial-open-to-sex-female trials-list--trial-open-to-sex-male trials-list--trial-open-to-healthy "><div class="card-body"><h2 class="h4 card-title"> <a href="https://clinicaltrials.ucsf.edu/trial/NCT05645835" class="stretched-link">Dynamic Neural Systems Underlying Social-emotional Functions in Older Adults</a> </h2><div class="trials-list--trial-details"><p class="h6 "> <i class="fa fa-user d-none d-md-inline" aria-hidden="true"></i> open to eligible people ages 60-120 </p><div class="trials-list--trial-summary"><p>Assess the impact of a remote, app-delivered digital meditation intervention on emotional well-being of lonely older adults. Neuroimaging and autonomic physiology will be used to assess the neural correlates of the intervention.</p></div><p itemprop="location" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Place" class="text-right text-muted small"><meta itemprop="name" content="UCSF"> <i class="fa fa-map-marker fa-fw" aria-hidden="true"></i> <span itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/PostalAddress"> <strong> <span itemprop="addressLocality">San Francisco</span>, <span itemprop="addressRegion">California</span><meta itemprop="postalCode" content="94158"><meta itemprop="addressCountry" content="United States"> </strong> </span></p></div></div></li></ul><div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/WebPage"><p class="text-muted small comma-list"> Our lead scientists for Loneliness research studies include <span class="pi-name comma-list-item" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a href="https://profiles.ucsf.edu/nooshin.razani" target="_blank" rel="noopener author" itemprop="url" class="condition--link-to-pi-profile"><span itemprop="name">Nooshin Razani, MD MPH</span></a></span>. </p><p class="text-muted small">Last updated: <time itemprop="dateModified" datetime="2023-11-27">November 2023</time></p></div></div> <div class="col-md-3 col-lg-3 offset-lg-1"><aside class="d-print-none"><h3 class="h5 mt-5" role="complementary">Related Links</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.ucsfhealth.org/find-a-doctor/" rel="nofollow">UCSF Health doctors</a></li><li><a href="https://www.researchmatch.org/" rel="nofollow">More studies at ResearchMatch</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ucsf.edu/search?search=Loneliness" rel="nofollow">Loneliness resources at UCSF</a></li></ul></aside></div> </div> </div> </main><footer class="mt-auto" role="contentinfo" data-nosnippet><div id="ucsf--footer--body"><div class="container" data-nosnippet><div class="row mb-1 d-print-none"><div class="col-12 text-center text-md-left"> We use cookies to operate our website, analyze performance, and improve your experience on our site. <a href="https://www.ucsf.edu/website-privacy-policy" target="_blank">Learn more.</a> </div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-6 text-center text-md-left"><p class="my-0"> © The Regents of the University of California </p></div><div class="col-md-6 text-center text-md-right pt-3 pt-md-0"> <a href="https://websites.ucsf.edu/digital-accessibility" target="_blank">Accessibility</a> <a href="https://www.ucsf.edu/website-privacy-policy" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> <a href="https://websites.ucsf.edu/website-terms-use" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a> </div></div></div></div></footer><script>(function(){var b=document.createElement('script');b.type='text/javascript';b.async=true;b.src='//siteimproveanalytics.com/js/siteanalyze_8343.js';var a=document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];a.parentNode.insertBefore(b,a)})();</script></body></html>