This Project Grant award of $119,721, provided 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 research at Texas A&M University to investigate biological and behavioral mechanisms underlying parent-child interactions. The research aims to provide a better understanding of how maternal and paternal caregiving behaviors, including verbal and nonverbal mentalizing, relate to...
This Project Grant award of $1,427,348 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA Program 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research - will fund a study examining the impact of state policies restricting adolescents' access to social media on their exposure to unhealthy food and beverage advertising. The study will enroll 13-17 year old adolescents in Texas and Louisiana, which recently passed laws requiring parental approval for...
This $154,000 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 fund a research study at Florida State University (FSU) to investigate the safety nets of families involved with child protective services (CPS). The study aims to: (a) identify parents' informal and formal supports over time; (b) examine how these safety nets relate to child outcomes; and (c)...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to collect data on family context, parenting, and child development for a longitudinal birth cohort study called the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FF). The $701,749 grant will enable the University of Wisconsin System, the prime awardee, to expand the FF study by collecting data on...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $418,108 Project Grant under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The grant will fund a 2-year study to validate a novel, objective measure of screen exposure in young children using a wearable camera. The researchers will characterize the quantity, type, and context of children's screen use, and examine links between screen exposure,...
This Project Grant award, valued at $127,722 and provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, will support a longitudinal study examining the associations among maternal stress, infant epigenetics, and behavioral and cognitive development in early childhood. The primary recipient, Teachers College Columbia University, will leverage an existing birth cohort of socioeconomically diverse...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program provides $571,311 to the University of Massachusetts Boston to conduct research on the development of episodic future thinking (EFT) in early childhood. The primary goals are to: 1) quantify the processing capacity of EFT during memory retrieval and planning in 3-4 year old children, and examine how this...
This Project Grant award of $794,931 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), will fund a study on the relationship between early parent-infant synchrony and outcomes in middle childhood for infants at genetic risk for ADHD or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The study will leverage three longitudinal cohorts of 326 infants previously seen from 6 months to 3 years of age, extending follow-up to ages 6-10 years. Researchers...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $427,625 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on August 7, 2024. The grant will fund a secondary data analysis study exploring the mechanisms linking maternal childhood adversity to adolescent psychopathology, with a focus on the roles of early childhood deprivation and threat. The study will leverage a rich longitudinal...
This $150,034 federal 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) is funding research on the parenting behaviors and self-regulation of low-income ethnic minority mothers and fathers and their toddlers. The key products and services being delivered through this 2-year award to the University of Maryland, College Park include: 1) assessing the levels and changes...
This federal 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 $1,855,707 to Florida International University to conduct a longitudinal study examining the transactional associations between family media use, caregiver-child interactions, and behavioral functioning in young children at risk for externalizing behavior problems.
The study aims to investigate how characteristics of family media use, including duration, content, and purposes of use, relate to the developmental trajectories of child emotional and behavioral functioning from ages 3 to 5 years. It will also examine caregiver-child interactions, parenting, and caregiver distress as potential mechanisms underlying these associations. The research is expected to inform healthy family media use guidelines and interventions relevant to the modern digital age. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to May 31, 2029.