Theme Three: Promoting and Maintaining Disease Self-Management
Improving Medication Adherence and Intensification
American Diabetes Association/Department of Veterans Affairs: Problems Due to Medication Costs among People with Diabetes, 2/15/05 – 2/14/08. John Piette (PI).
VA Health Services Research and Development Program: Depression Treatments and Suicide. 12/15/2005 – 11/30/2008. Marcia Valenstein (PI).
National Institute of Mental Health/NIH: Antidepressants, Concurrent Treatments and Completed Suicide in VA Registry Data (5R01MH078698), 8/1/06 – 5/31/09. Marcia Valenstein (PI), John Piette (Co-PI).
VA Health Services Research and Development Program: Suicide Among Veterans: Using the Depression Registry to Inform Care (IIR 04-211), 7/1/05 – 6/30/08. Marcia Valenstein (PI), John Piette (Co-I).
VA Health Services Research and Development Program: Adherence and Intensification of Medications: A Population-Based Clinical Pharmacist Implementation Study Among Hypertensive Diabetes Patients, 7/1/07 - 6/30/10. Michele Heisler (PI), Eve Kerr (Co-PI), Tim Hofer (Co-I), Sarah Krein (Co-I), Steve Bernstein (Co-I), John Piette (Co-I).
National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Disease/NIH: Improving Adherence and Intensification of Medications Among Diabetes Patients, 7/1/07 - 3/30/10. Eve Kerr (PI), Michele Heisler (Co-PI), Tim Hofer (Co-I).
Promoting Physical Activity with Low-Cost Interventions
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Enhancing Adherence by Building E-Communities, 7/1/06 - 6/30/09. Caroline Richardson (PI).
Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Program: Does Step-Count Feedback Enhance Counseling for Weight Loss? (D3358R), 1/1/05 – 12/31/07. Caroline Richardson (PI), Julie Lowery (Co-PI).
Department of Health and Human Services/NIH: Motivational Feedback to Increase Walking Adherence (5K23HL075098), 09/30/04 - 08/31/09. Caroline Richardson (PI).
VA Health Services Research and Development Program: Promoting Physical Activity with Low-Cost Interventions: Veterans Walk to Beat Back Pain (IIR 07-177), $899,300, 10/1/08 – 9/30/12. Sarah Krein (Co-PI), Caroline Richardson (Co-PI).

