The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to Vanderbilt University for $1,303,830 on September 1, 2024. The goal of this 18-month project is to address key knowledge gaps in research on sexual and gender minority (SGM) preteens, who experience up to 14 times higher risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors compared to their heterosexual, cisgender peers. The project will: 1) develop consensus among...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports a research study to investigate peripubertal social motivation as a novel risk factor linking childhood threat exposure and suicidal ideation and behavior in preteen girls. The $3,218,822 award to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will fund a longitudinal study to refine assessments, test theories on how maladaptive social...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to The Trustees of Princeton University, totaling $597,881 with an award date of Aug 1, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of Mar 12, 2025. The project aims to elucidate the psychological processes that give rise to gender disparities in mental health across adolescent development. The research will involve a diverse sample of cisgender and transgender...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports a five-year study on the role of environmental exposures and allostatic load in risk and resilience to youth suicide attempts. The $739,843 award, with an effective date of September 1, 2024, will be led by the principal investigator at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The project involves secondary analysis of data...
This Project Grant award of $640,196, provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports a 4-year longitudinal study to investigate suicide risk and protective factors among economically disadvantaged, preteen Black youth. The study aims to: 1) characterize the severity and course of suicide ideation and behaviors (SIB) in a sample of 1,000 Black preadolescents; 2) identify individual, environmental, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under CFDA Program 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants, will support a study to explore the relationships between social media content and suicidality among transgender adolescents. The $846,738 award will fund a prospective, longitudinal study that uses a "digital photovoice" approach to understand how emotionally-laden social media content consumed by transgender and gender non-binary (TGNB) adolescents...
This Project Grant award of $1,677,674, provided by the National Institutes of Health's Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), will fund a study to elucidate how mental health during late adolescence and early adulthood is influenced by LGBT-targeted policies. The primary awardee, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc., will use a multi-method approach to quantify associations between LGBT-targeted policies, enacted stigma, and mental health in young adult college students. This will...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $650,831 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to Louisiana State University to conduct research on cultural consensus modeling to identify culturally relevant risk and protective factors for suicide among sexual minority youth. The 7-month project, running from Jul 2024 to Mar 2025, will leverage a rigorous, multi-method ethnographic approach to develop culturally-specific models and assessment...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1,631,762 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to The Ohio State University to conduct research on bisexual adolescents' and young adults' risk for depression and suicidal ideation. The 5-year project will utilize an accelerated longitudinal design to: 1) identify diverse trajectories of depression and suicidal ideation from adolescence to young adulthood among bisexual and other multiply-attracted...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants) provides $1,135,986 to Rutgers, The State University to conduct a research study titled "Clarifying Phenotypes of Suicide Risk in Preteen Youth: An Intensive Longitudinal Assessment Study." The study aims to develop and validate a time-varying measure of suicide risk for preteens aged 8-12 years old, and to establish phenotypes of suicide risk in this population. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $600,000 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct a longitudinal study examining psychosocial predictors of suicidal behavior risk among gender minority adolescents (GMAs). The study aims to identify how general stressors and unique psychosocial experiences, such as gender transition steps and minority stress, predict changes in risk factors for suicidal behavior over a 12-month period. This research will compare a large, diverse nationwide sample of 1,000 GMAs and 500 non-GMA adolescents ages 14-18. The project, which runs from August 2024 to March 2025, represents a pioneering effort to improve understanding of suicide risk disparities between GMAs and non-GMAs, a critical health equity issue, and will inform the development of targeted interventions to reduce suicidal behavior among GMAs.