Project Grant R44MH114710

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $391,894 to The General Hospital Corporation (doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital) to conduct a randomized controlled trial of a smartphone-delivered treatment for suicidal thoughts and behavior. The project aims to evaluate the safety, acceptability, and efficacy of a classical conditioning-based intervention called Therapeutic...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under CFDA Program 93.361 Nursing Research, aims to develop and implement a technology-aided approach to safety planning that addresses social determinants of health - home safety and access to community mental healthcare - to decrease suicide risk in rural youth aged 12-17 who present to emergency departments. The $752,608 project will: 1) conduct focus groups and interviews to ascertain priorities and perspectives...

This Project Grant award of $661,237.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA Program 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants will support a research project titled "OPTIMIZING BRIEF COPING SKILLS INTERVENTIONS FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY AND NOVEL STATISTICAL MODELS FOR PRECISION MENTAL HEALTH". The project aims to intensively characterize the contexts in which patients at high-risk for suicide are most likely to use and benefit from safety...

This $2.9 million Defense Health Agency project grant funds research on suicide prevention among military personnel and veterans. The grant supports a multi-site randomized clinical trial through September 2026 to evaluate the efficacy of Written Exposure Therapy for Suicide Prevention compared to treatment as usual. Researchers at Boston University and partner institutions University of Colorado Denver and University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio aim to reduce suicidal thoughts and...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $373,960 to Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital to adapt, implement, and pilot test a culturally-centered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) protocol for suicidal behaviors among youth in Mexico City. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) culturally adapting and contextualizing the Socio-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicidal...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), provides $481,428 to the Moses-Weitzman Health System, Inc. to develop, implement, and evaluate three virtual continuing education strategies aimed at improving the capacity of primary care providers in federally qualified health centers and other safety net settings to apply best practices in the prevention, screening, and treatment of alcohol use...

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 Caring Contacts intervention delivered via text message for suicidal adolescents following emergency department discharge. The goal is to reduce youth suicide attempts and deaths during the high-risk post-discharge period. Key activities include: 1)...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants) provides $976,424 to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to conduct a randomized controlled trial of a preventive behavioral intervention called Resilience Training (RT) for young adults with psychotic experiences. The study aims to evaluate whether RT can reduce psychotic experiences, anxiety, depression, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $832,598 to the University of California, Santa Barbara to design a gender-affirming training intervention for lay health workers (LHWs) to promote mental health care access for racially diverse transgender youth. The key objectives are to: (1) co-design the training intervention with community partners (transgender youth, their parents, and...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $2,034,389 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, doing business as Kaiser Permanente, to conduct a quasi-experimental, hybrid type-2 pragmatic implementation study on the effectiveness of implementing teen suicide prevention with confidential care across 30 primary care clinics in Washington state. The 3-year study, with an award date of July 25, 2024 and an ultimate completion date...