UConnect Study

Improving health and wellbeing, including addressing the impacts of alcohol use.

School age students sit on stairs reading and socializing.

The UConnect Study is a Michigan Medicine research project in collaboration with the Department of Pediatrics that is aimed at helping adolescents improve their health and wellbeing, including addressing the impacts of alcohol use.

Before you can start participating in the study, we will need to make sure you qualify. If you’re interested in participating, scan the QR code or email [email protected] to connect with the study team.

UConnect Study
2800 Plymouth Road, Building 16
Ann Arbor, MI, 48105

IRB Number: HUM00232130

Email: [email protected]

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

If you are eligible to participate, participation will last around 12 months. You will first be asked to complete an online survey. Then our study team will provide instructions on how complete an interactive web-based program. This activity will take about 35 minutes. You may also receive text messages for 8 weeks. At 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and 12 months, you will be asked to take another survey.

Although not everyone in our study will benefit from participation, you may find completing the surveys, doing the interactive program, and/or receiving text messages to be helpful. You will also be compensated up to $230 across the study period.

If you choose to participate in the UConnect study, your information and participation will be kept confidential and secure. Information collected about you in this study (e.g., survey answers) will not be directly tied to your name or address.

To find out whether you qualify to participate, you will be asked to answer a few brief questions. You can access and complete this brief survey by contacting the research team.

Meet the Team

Maureen Ann Walton, MPH, PhD

Toby Brzoznowski
Research Professor of Behavioral Health Technology Innovations
Professor of Psychiatry
Co-Associate Chair
Department of Psychiatry Research and Research Faculty Development
Medical School

Erin E Bonar, PhD

Kathy Fant Brzoznowski Research Professor of Behavioral Health Technology Innovations
Professor of Psychiatry
Medical School

Susan J Woolford, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical School
Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity, School of Public Health

Kenneth Resnicow

Irwin M Rosenstock Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Public Health
Professor Emeritus of Health Behavior and Health Equity
School of Public Health

Jason Goldstick, PhD

Research Professor, Emergency Medicine, Medical School
Research Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity, School of Public Health

Joanna Quigley MD FAAP

Associate Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Medical Director, Child and Adolescent Ambulatory Psychiatry and Ombudsperson
Medical School