This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $2,164,152 to the University of Illinois to test the effectiveness and implementation of a meditation mobile application addressing substance use, sexual health, and emotion regulation among youth involved in the legal system. The key objectives of this 5-year award are to: 1) Conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation randomized...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) under the Research and Training in Complementary and Integrative Health program (CFDA 93.213) provides funding of $151,672.00 to San Diego State University Foundation to conduct a 5-year mixed methods research project. The key goals are to culturally tailor a commercially available mindfulness meditation mobile app to reduce psychological distress in African American adults and assess the...
This federal Project Grant awarded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), under the Research and Training in Complementary and Integrative Health program (CFDA 93.213), will fund the development and pilot testing of a novel, daily digital mindfulness-based intervention for depressive symptoms in post-treatment cancer patients. The $165,240 award will support the candidate's research in three phases: 1) developing the 15-minute daily "MINDSET"...
This Project Grant award from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), under the Research and Training in Complementary and Integrative Health program (CFDA 93.213), is funding a pilot multisite randomized controlled trial to evaluate a yoga-based intervention (YBI) for reducing depression in adolescents. The total award amount is $1,415,556, with a project period from September 2024 to August 2027. The key objectives are to: 1) assess the feasibility and...
This $344,718 federal Project Grant award from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) under CFDA Program 93.213, "Research and Training in Complementary and Integrative Health," will support the development of Dr. Ma as an independent clinical researcher focused on the use of mobile health (mHealth) technology-based mindfulness meditation (MM) interventions for managing chronic insomnia disorder. The key products and services to be delivered through this...
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) awarded a $125,026 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Research and Training in Complementary and Integrative Health program (CFDA 93.213). The award will fund research to identify brain network connections that predict trait mindfulness, as well as examine fluctuations in brain networks associated with state mindfulness over time. The research aims to deepen the understanding of...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $768,172 to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy (MBT) for patients with serious mental illness (SMI) in a community mental health center (CMHC) setting in the United States. The 5-year project, awarded on February 3, 2025, aims to test the impact of MBT on symptom management and functioning for 160 patients with...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), under the Research and Training in Complementary and Integrative Health program (CFDA 93.213), provides $157,409 to Seattle Children's Hospital to develop a mobile "just-in-time" adaptive intervention (JITAI) for young adults with chronic pain. The project aims to use ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to identify contextual vulnerabilities that predict pain exacerbations in...
This Project Grant award of $857,121 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) aims to develop and test a prototype mobile health application (mHealth app) called R-Assist. The app is designed to support individuals with co-occurring opioid use and mental health disorders upon release from jail, providing daily symptom and medication monitoring, a self-help curriculum, social determinants of health resource finder, and an...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) provides $280,207 to Mobile Health Interventions LLC to develop a novel mobile cannabis intervention for youth aged 13-17 who are regular cannabis users. The primary goals are to create a digital tool that can work in conjunction with existing support systems, such as traditional treatment, individual therapy, or school-based services, to address the range of...
This Project Grant award from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), under the federal Research and Training in Complementary and Integrative Health program (CFDA 93.213), will fund a multi-site feasibility trial to evaluate the use of a mindfulness meditation smartphone app to improve psychological wellbeing and decrease distress among youth involved in the legal system.
The $1,187,685 award, with a project period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027, will support the expansion of a prior feasibility study to four additional rural and urban counties across Oregon and New York. The study will recruit 120 youth on probation (30 per site) and randomize them to use either the meditation app or a control app for 30 days, assessing mental health outcomes, emotion regulation, and implementation feasibility through surveys, interviews, and ecological momentary assessments. This data will inform the development of a larger hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial to promote scalable programming for legal-involved youth.
As part of the sub-award, the Oregon Social Learning Center will collaborate on conducting qualitative interviews, troubleshooting local implementation issues, and disseminating findings from the multi-site feasibility trial.