This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under CFDA Program 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants, provides $1,111,596.00 to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals to evaluate biases in existing and proposed outcome-focused quality measures for depression and anxiety treatment. The project aims to identify patient characteristics that lead to lower quality scores for providers serving more Black and Hispanic patients, adjust measures to account for population...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $1,647,117 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to develop, test, and validate a new, transdiagnostic outcome-focused mental health quality measure. The measure will be based on routine patient reports of their symptoms and can be used to assess and improve the quality of mental health services across provider, clinic, and...
This federal Project Grant award of $240,750 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to promote access, engagement, coordination, and optimization of mental health services for preschoolers with mental health symptoms. The award recipient, Childrens Hospital Medical Center, will use the funding to tailor and pilot test the NTRI-MH intervention, which employs ethno-racially matched family navigators to increase...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to develop person-centered outcome measures for assessing the quality of goal-directed care for individuals with serious mental illnesses (SMI) such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The $639,417 award, with a project period from Sep 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2028, will support a collaborative effort by researchers from the National Committee for...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $1,291,159 to develop and test a set of quality measures to advance suicide prevention and care across health systems. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year project include: Developing and testing outcome measures for suicide ideation and attempts (fatal and non-fatal) Developing and testing suicide care process measures...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $295,234 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to 3-C Institute for Social Development Inc. (doing business as 3C Institute), a woman-owned small business located in Durham, North Carolina. The grant, awarded on July 19, 2024, with a completion date of July 18, 2025, will fund the development of ASSIST-MH, a new interactive digital support system for school mental health providers. The ASSIST-MH...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $447,164 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Mclean Hospital Corporation in Belmont, Massachusetts to develop a new personalized quality of life measurement approach for mental health conditions. The project aims to create a measurement system that is both nomothetically comparable across diseases and idiographically tailored to mental health symptoms. This innovative approach leverages unsupervised machine...
This Project Grant award of $237,765.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support a study to longitudinally measure caregiver depression and anxiety over the treatment course and up to 1 year following treatment of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in Burkina Faso. The study will leverage an ongoing randomized controlled trial evaluating SAM treatment to provide comprehensive evidence on the burden...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $499,452 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to George Washington University to develop a quality assessment tool that can be completed by people with lived experience of mental health conditions who use primary care services. The tool will be co-created with service users and healthcare system stakeholders to rate quality indicators such as provider communication, treatment resources, and facility infrastructure....
This federal Project Grant award of $535,571 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to enhance the effectiveness of measurement-based care (MBC) for youth in community mental health centers (CMHCs). The award will: Define and evaluate the full continuum of MBC fidelity indicators to better understand the extent to which MBC practices are delivered. Assess the impact of MBC fidelity on the mechanisms and clinical...