This Project Grant award, totaling $1,365,241.74 and granted by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), supports a sequential explanatory mixed methods study (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program) to explore the mental health and help-seeking behaviors of parents after their child comes out as a sexual minority. The key objectives are to: 1) compare four recruitment strategies to engage parents of sexual minority youth in an online...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,156,700 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver 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 mixed-methods study to prospectively examine multi-level impacts on family formation plans among sexual and gender minority (SGM) couples. The study aims to quantitatively test the influence of factors like state-level structural stigma and couple...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $567,052 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to Iris Media Inc., doing business as Trifoia, to develop an online, evidence-based parenting training program for LGBTQ+ families. The project, titled "Evidence-Based Parent Training for Diverse Families (PTDF)", aims to create numerous eLearning modules and user engagement tools based on...
This federal Project Grant award of $131,657 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 research investigating disparities in unintended pregnancies among sexual minority women (SMW). The key products and services to be delivered through this award include: Analyzing longitudinal data from the Growing Up Today Study (N=15,044) and Nurses' Health Study 3 (N>51,094)...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,287,000 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of Colorado-Denver. The grant will fund a 2-year feasibility study to assess the processes and outcomes related to gender-affirming care for transgender and gender diverse youth in the United States. The study aims to (1) establish the acceptability of study instruments and data...
This $167,626 federal Project Grant was 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). The grant will support research by the non-profit organization Father Flanagan's Boys' Home to examine the impact of intergenerational adversity exposure on parent-child linguistic interactions and child language outcomes. Leveraging an existing longitudinal dataset of 325 preschoolers...
This $1,163,796 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will support a 4-year study entitled "Adaptations and Impacts Understanding Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs" (AIM-UP). The study aims to advance understanding of how evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs can be effectively adapted and replicated, with a focus on four key areas:...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $457,596 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to identify key engagement characteristics that can enhance the effectiveness of digital HIV interventions for at-risk youth. The project aims to: 1) harmonize engagement data across multiple Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV Interventions (ATN) - UNC/Emory Center for Innovative...
This federal Project Grant award of $991,613 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program) aims to understand intersectional family relationships and their impact on mental health among Latinx sexual and gender minority (SGM) adolescents and their parents. The award has three key objectives: 1) adapt and validate a measure of parental acceptance for Latinx SGM adolescents, 2) examine how family...
This federal Project Grant award of $325,000 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research supports research investigating the effects of government-led cash transfer programs on health outcomes among women and young children in low- and middle-income countries. The research team at the University of Pennsylvania will use longitudinal mortality data from 37 countries to...
The University of Pennsylvania received a $1,783,402.98 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The goal of this 5-year award, beginning on September 16, 2024, is to test the efficacy of the "Parents ASSIST" intervention, which aims to improve parent-adolescent sexuality communication and support for sexual minority male adolescents after they disclose their gay, bisexual, or queer (GBQ) identities. The study will conduct a randomized controlled trial with 476 parent-GBQ youth dyads to evaluate the intervention's impact on parent-child communication, mental health, health behaviors, and family functioning over 12 months. This project represents one of the few studies investigating parent-child sexuality communication with sexual minority youth, and it will explore the differential effects of race and ethnicity on health outcomes to address longstanding disparities.