Monica Skewes
Montana State University, MT·Psychology
Alcohol and drug use disorders affect Native communities disproportionately, even though many American Indians abstain. These health gaps stem from generations of systemic racism and historical trauma.
- Fields
Psychology
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
substance use disorder
alcohol use disorder
addiction
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Feb 2027
What they work on
- Test whether Indigenous Recovery Planning, a culturally adapted Relapse Prevention treatment, increases percent days abstinent among 150 Fort Peck tribal members with substance use disorder, compared with a waitlist control group.
- Measure the intervention's effects on substance-related consequences and quality of life, and whether gains last at a 12-week follow-up after treatment.
- Examine whether cultural factors such as American Indian identity, spirituality, communal mastery and distress from historical trauma explain treatment effects.
- Conduct a process evaluation of whether the community-delivered intervention is acceptable and sustainable and overcomes barriers to evidence-based care.
More about the research
Yet few culturally grounded, evidence-based treatments have been developed or tested with American Indians. This project tests one such treatment, built together by a reservation community and university researchers.
Why it matters
A culturally grounded treatment delivered by community members could widen access to effective substance use disorder care for American Indians on and beyond Fort Peck. It may help narrow related health disparities. The findings may also carry over to other communities that share similar cultural values and face similar barriers to treatment.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Amanda Hunter
Arizona State University Campus Immersion, AZ·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Identify the core elements of Native Spirit, a 13-session culturally grounded after-school program led by traditional knowledge holders for American Indian adolescents.
Tommi Gaines
University of California-San Diego, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Build a community-based participatory research partnership with Southern California Tribal and community representatives to co-design a culturally appropriate study of naloxone vending machines on Tribal lands.
Sheldon Riklon
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, AR·Public Health & Epidemiology
Test whether Ājjmuurur Baamḷe, a family-model diabetes self-management program, improves HbA1c, blood pressure, lipids, BMI, and self-efficacy among Marshallese patients, in a cluster randomized trial delivered by community health workers in faith-based organizations.
The school
Montana State University: 15 labs on PI Pages, $258M a year on research, 85 research doctorates a year.
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