Jennifer P. Read
University at Buffalo, NY·Psychology
Alcohol plays a part in two serious public health problems: harmful drinking among people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and sexual assault on college campuses. Both projects look at what happens in real-life moments and social settings, rather than only in a clinic.
- Fields
Psychology
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
posttraumatic stress disorder
alcohol use
problem drinking
- Grants
- 2 known grants, through Aug 2030
What they work on
- Examine how momentary changes in PTSD symptoms predict urges to drink, alcohol seeking and drinking among 110 adults with PTSD, using 14 days of ecological momentary assessment with several phone surveys a day.
- Test intentional emotion regulation (self-reported by phone) and automatic emotion regulation (measured by ambulatory high-frequency heart rate variability) as distinct links between PTSD symptoms and drinking.
- Explore whether specific PTSD symptom clusters differ in how they drive intentional and automatic emotion regulation processes related to drinking risk.
- Test whether PAIRS, a motivational interviewing intervention for pairs of college women friends, reduces alcohol-involved sexual assault risk compared with treatment as usual over one year.
- Identify how PAIRS works by testing readiness, perceived barriers, protective behaviors and friendship quality as mediators, including how each friend's change influences the other.
More about the research
One asks how people manage emotions from moment to moment and how that leads to drinking. The other tests whether friends can be trained together to prevent alcohol-involved sexual assault.
Why it matters
People with PTSD face high rates of harmful drinking, and many cannot reach in-person treatment. Learning how emotion regulation drives drinking in daily life could guide mobile interventions that help at the moment risk arises. On college campuses, a friend-based program that proves effective could reduce alcohol-involved sexual assault against women. It could also lay the groundwork for a larger Phase 3 trial.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Cecilia Hinojosa
University of New Mexico, NM·Neuroscience·Early-career
Define sex differences in reward-related brain circuitry, including the striatum, that relate to alcohol craving and drinking in trauma-exposed women and men, using functional neuroimaging.
Erin Kaufman
University of Utah, UT·Psychology·Early-career
Compare an interpersonal skill (GIVE) with an intrapersonal skill (opposite-to-emotion action) for reducing emotion dysregulation in self-injuring adolescents, using a randomized crossover design with parent–teen conflict discussions.
Kevin Kuehn
University of California-San Diego, CA·Psychology·Early-career
Refine the personalized suicide prevention intervention PRECISE using a user-centered design approach and a case series with high-risk adults.
The school
University at Buffalo: 32 labs on PI Pages, $542M a year on research, 316 research doctorates a year.
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