Project Grant R01DA038139

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)...

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 $311,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) aims to develop and pilot test a mobile-enhanced, web-based intervention for reducing cannabis use among non-college young adults (YAs) engaging in frequent or high-intensity cannabis use. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year project include: 1) Development of the "TAKE 5" intervention using focus groups...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $2,245,812 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to conduct a 3-arm randomized controlled trial. The study will examine the effectiveness of personalized daily text message reminders with and without financial incentives in improving antidepressant adherence and depression symptoms among adult primary care patients newly...

This $707,367 federal Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), under the Cancer Cause and Prevention Research (CFDA 93.393) program, is funding the development and evaluation of a mobile health (mHealth) intervention called GEMS for people who are ambivalent about quitting smoking. The GEMS app uses a series of self-guided exercises to help engage these individuals, build their motivation and confidence to quit, and connect them to evidence-based quit smoking treatments like...

This federal Project Grant award of $1,861,650.00, provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program), supports the development and national testing of a culturally tailored mHealth intervention called MASP+ that aims to address smoking cessation, mental health, and HIV disease management among Black adults with HIV. The 5-year project will involve formative research to refine the MASP+...

The federal Project Grant award R01MD019748, titled "ACTIVATEXTO: Advancing Smoking Cessation and Physical Activity Among Latinos," was awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program. The $1,592,506 grant supports the development and evaluation of a culturally-tailored smoking cessation text messaging intervention for Latino populations. The project, conducted by the...

This $279,573 federal Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) under the Cancer Cause and Prevention Research program (CFDA 93.393) aims to refine and test a novel biobehavioral smoking cessation intervention that integrates the strategic application of olfactory stimulation (OS) to reduce cigarette craving. The project will be conducted in two phases: Phase I will involve a crossover, micro-randomized controlled trial with 32 treatment-seeking smokers to refine the design...

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...

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded a 5-year, $757,913 Project Grant under the Cancer Cause and Prevention Research program (CFDA 93.393) to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington. The grant will fund a randomized controlled trial to determine whether providing a smoking cessation smartphone app (iCanQuit) in combination with free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is more effective and cost-effective for increasing biochemically verified 30-day smoking abstinence among...