Clinical Assessment Team Services
Study Recruitment
Recruit participants living in the Northeastern Oklahoma region using a multi-pronged approach, including social media, digital, radio advertising, direct on-site facility recruitment, direct recruitment at the Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital, and in-person activity-based recruitment.
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Psychiatric Assessment
Masters-educated interviewers (licensed therapists or licensed social workers) complete diagnostic interviews to determine DSM-V diagnoses for each participant. Additionally, interviewers discuss current and past suicidal thinking and/or attempts of self-harm with each person. The team completes clinical interviews with adults and teens under the supervision of a board certified psychiatrist.
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Medical Assessment
The medical team (registered nurses and medical technicians) completes comprehensive interviews to determine the history of chronic, recent, and current medical conditions, and operates under physician supervision. In addition to completing standard medical assessments, the team collects biological samples including measurements of immune (C-Reactive Protein), and metabolic (hemoglobin A1c) function.
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A History of Success
LIBR's clinical assessment team has been under the direction of Tim Collins since 2013. Throughout 2021, despite the continuation of COVID, the team has returned to screening assessments to pre-COVID numbers. To ensure subject comfort and offer flexibility to the subject, the team has become proficient in the process of remote assessments and the return of in-person assessments. This has led to the number of screening assessment to increase by 101% from 2020 to 2021.
The assessment team, over the past 5 years, has completed: • Number of phone screens: 19,686 • Number of Screening consents signed: 6,005 • Number of blood collections: 3,704 |
Research Support
In addition to standard clinical and medical interviews and assessments, the team completes COVID-19 testing as directed, clinical and self-report ratings, REDCap database instrument collection, neuroimaging sessions, EEG preparations, and blood draws. Investigators and clinical trials at LIBR are supported by board certified psychiatrists who provide diagnostic evaluations and safety assessments.
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