Project Grant 2116350

The National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Social and Economic Science, awarded a 3-year, $545,831 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) to conduct a study on the consequences of parental and grandparental death for children's wellbeing. The study, titled "MCA: A Three-Generation Study of Family Bereavement and Child Wellbeing," examines the effects of family bereavement on children's behavioral, mental, physical, cognitive, and academic outcomes. The...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $869,192 to the University of Miami to conduct a mixed methods study examining the impact of parental bereavement on social connection, isolation, and health. The key goals of the study are to: 1) quantify changes in bereaved parents' social network characteristics, 2) determine associations between network characteristics, perceived isolation, and health, and 3) identify adaptive...

This Project Grant award of $1,074,862.00 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will support a research project at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) focused on investigating the links between early exposure to family member deaths and disrupted transitions into adulthood. The project aims to document the connections between exposure to family member deaths in...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the federal Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $3,896,298 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to address prolonged grief and substance use disorders among people bereaved by drug overdose deaths. The study aims to adapt and pilot test a peer grief support intervention called "RIVER" and then conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate its effectiveness compared to...

This federal Project Grant award of $120,000 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) to Northwestern University aims to establish the feasibility of measuring bereavement-related stress in a naturalistic setting. The study will use a novel approach that combines ecological momentary assessment with continuous electrocardiography monitoring to generate personalized measures of affective and autonomic stress reactivity among bereaved...

This federal Project Grant award of $197,250 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), will support a study to examine the impact of the Social Worker Outreach and Resource Delivery (SWORD) intervention for individuals bereaved by drug overdose. The study, conducted by the non-profit Friends Research Institute, Inc. in Baltimore, Maryland, will leverage a time-limited opportunity to compare outcomes of the SWORD...

This Project Grant award of $640,196, provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports a 4-year longitudinal study to investigate suicide risk and protective factors among economically disadvantaged, preteen Black youth. The study aims to: 1) characterize the severity and course of suicide ideation and behaviors (SIB) in a sample of 1,000 Black preadolescents; 2) identify individual, environmental, and...

This $103,948 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports a convergent mixed-methods study to examine psychosocial factors associated with parental self-efficacy in adolescent suicide prevention. The study aims to: 1) analyze associations between parent-level psychosocial factors, adolescent suicide-related characteristics, and parents' suicide behavior prevention self-efficacy; 2) qualitatively...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $157,000.00 to support a pilot study evaluating the acceptability and feasibility of a 6-week nature meditation intervention for bereaved friend and family caregivers of cancer patients who died in hospice care. The study, conducted by the collaborative research partnership of Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences, aims to develop 6 nature-based healing meditation...

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), awarded a $329,048 Project Grant to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) to culturally adapt and pilot test the feasibility of a behavioral health intervention for grief among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations. The overarching goal of this 5-year project is to train the principal investigator to...