Cooperative Agreement R43DP006014

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program, aims to develop a text message-based parent intervention (TM-PBI) to reduce alcohol use and related consequences among first-year college students. The $206,856 award to Loyola Marymount University will fund a two-phase project to design, develop, and pilot test the TM-PBI program. In Phase 1, the team will create a web platform to...

This federal Project Grant award of $772,848, provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), supports research to develop and evaluate an innovative, adaptive mobile phone-delivered intervention tailored to the social contexts of adults living with type 2 diabetes. The primary awardee, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will enroll 405 adults with type 2...

This $461,662 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund a study to adapt and evaluate the Text4Father mHealth intervention to directly reach first-time expectant fathers using social media. The goal is to improve infant and family health outcomes by increasing first-time fathers' infant care self-efficacy and engagement during the prenatal...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $256,000 Project Grant to Mealmate Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a personalized artificial intelligence chatbot and personalized nutrition recommendations application. The one-year project will advance knowledge in spoken dialogue systems and establish AI-based nutrition as a new research area. Mealmate will create a neural generative chatbot model with memory capabilities to provide more...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $380,160 to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago to adapt and implement a text message-based "Caring Contacts" intervention to prevent suicide attempts among adolescents following emergency department visits. The key objectives are to: (1) adapt the Caring Contacts intervention to align with adolescent preferences, (2)...

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living awarded Kamin Consulting Inc., doing business as Yumlish, a $100,000 Project Grant under the ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research program. The grant aims to improve accessibility and relevance of diabetes prevention and management programs among disabled individuals with Type 2 diabetes through development of an adapted mobile application with low barriers to adoption....

The federal Project Grant award R01AA030986, titled "ASPIRE TO CHANGE: LEVERAGING TEXT MESSAGING PEER SUPPORT COACHING TO MITIGATE HAZARDOUS ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN NON-COLLEGIATE YOUNG ADULTS", is funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273). The $1,389,316 award aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the ASPIRE text messaging program in reducing hazardous alcohol consumption among non-collegiate young adults,...

This is a Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). The $740,798 award will fund research to develop a stepped-care model intervention to help maintain health behavior improvements in under-resourced patients after completing phase II cardiac rehabilitation. The research will utilize a Sequential, Multiple Assignment, Randomized Trial (SMART) design to evaluate low-intensity text messaging...

This $1,957,779 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the development and testing of a text messaging program to promote early math skills among underserved children in rural communities. The Leland Stanford Junior University will partner with pediatric clinics serving immigrant families to design and study the impact of sending caregivers weekly math-focused text messages for eight months. Text content will be informed by early...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to examine the effectiveness of an adaptive text-based intervention for parents of suicidal adolescents transitioning from emergency department care. The total funding amount is $3,026,861.00, with an award date of August 1, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2028. The key product delivered under this grant is a 6-week...