Project Grant F31NR021237

This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) provides $168,480.00 to Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago to conduct research on prenatal care utilization and its impact on postnatal outcomes for publicly insured children with congenital heart defects. The key objectives are to: 1) Identify common prenatal care pathways leading to delivery at a congenital heart defect surgical center, 2) Estimate the...

This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) aims to establish patient-reported outcome measures that can refine risk stratification and identify barriers to post-discharge specialty care for preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). The $586,021 award, effective February 1, 2025, supports efforts to recruit at least 750 infants from 15 sites in the Children's Hospitals Neonatal Consortium to link neonatal...

The federal Project Grant award R01HD113525, funded 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 support a $653,397 research project to comprehensively determine the barriers and facilitators affecting parent presence and participation (PPP) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and the effects of PPP on infant clinical outcomes and neurodevelopment. The research will...

This Project Grant award 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 provide $160,052 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute to conduct research on the impact of hospital financial health and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) strain on neonatal outcomes and disparities. The key objectives of this 5-year research project are to: 1) define the...

This Project Grant award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (CFDA 93.350) provides $159,103 to investigate the experiences of parents seeking emergency care for their injured children with special healthcare needs. The study will engage at least 35 family caregivers to gather qualitative data on factors contributing to poor care quality and hospital complications for this population. The project aims to elucidate the mechanisms behind adverse outcomes in injured...

This 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 multi-site randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a medical-financial partnership intervention on parent mental health, perinatal outcomes, and child developmental risk. The $494,251 award to the University of California, Los Angeles will support the implementation and evaluation of a...

This Project Grant award of $790,989 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) aims to close a gap in the scientific understanding of palliative care needs for families of children with rare diseases. The principal investigator will evaluate the effectiveness of the Family Centered (FACE) Pediatric Advance Care Planning intervention, which integrates the Carer Support Needs...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $204,788 to New York University to adapt and evaluate an innovative trauma-focused parenting intervention called Parenting-STAIR for military-connected mothers. The goal is to adapt the existing 23-session Parenting-STAIR intervention, which has shown promise in reducing trauma symptoms and improving parenting skills among...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $251,250 to Yale University to conduct a randomized trial exploring the effects of enriched parent-infant interaction on infant and parent health outcomes. The study will evaluate the impacts of three intervention conditions: (1) a smartphone-based music intervention to teach parents interactive...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $252,612 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the University of Washington to develop a culturally sensitive measure and mechanism for understanding parental psychological control in Mexican immigrant families. The project aims to become an independent researcher who studies parenting in diverse cultures, builds and evaluates culturally sensitive preventive...