This Project Grant award of $1,291,159, provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program, aims to develop and test quality measures to advance suicide prevention and care across healthcare systems. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing and testing a set of suicide ideation and attempt (fatal and non-fatal) outcome measures. Developing and testing suicide care process measures to determine their...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1,323,471 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to a team of researchers from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the RAND Corporation, and the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of this 4-year project, starting in September 2024, is to develop person-centered outcome measures for assessing the quality of goal-directed care for individuals with serious mental illnesses such as...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1,320,180 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to develop and test two complementary case-mix adjusted quality measures focused on pediatric anxiety symptoms and outcomes. The project aims to create a measure of treatment response and a measure of anxiety remission using the GAD-7 anxiety questionnaire, which can be feasibly implemented at scale. The grant...
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 $457,640 federal Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program seeks to reduce diagnostic variance and improve patient safety in mental healthcare. The project will be conducted by the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, in partnership with healthcare systems in Massachusetts and Washington state. The key objectives are to: 1) assess agreement across providers...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1,248,897 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of California, Santa Barbara to design a gender-affirming training intervention for lay health workers (LHWs) to promote mental health care access for racially diverse transgender youth. The two-year project (9/1/2024 - 8/31/2026) will use human-centered design methods to (1) co-design the LHW training intervention with community partners, and (2)...
This Project Grant award of $458,177 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will fund research to leverage population-level data to inform prevention and treatment of adolescent depression following adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). The research aims to identify combinations of factors that most affect the association between ACEs and adolescent depression symptoms, using data from the Longitudinal Adolescent Brain...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is intended to develop and pilot a mental health services access measurement system for integrated mental health care systems in Peru. The $542,314 award, spanning September 2024 to July 2027, will fund a three-part project. First, a community-based participatory research needs assessment will be conducted to inform the adaptation of existing care access...
This Project Grant award of $2,245,812.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program, is funding a 3-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine the effectiveness of personalized daily text message reminders, with and without financial incentives, in improving antidepressant adherence and depression symptoms for adult primary care patients. The study aims to compare these two adherence support strategies to usual...
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...