The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a 5-year, $1,685,620 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242) to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to conduct a longitudinal study examining the "Social-Ecological and Individual Determinants of the Course of Suicidal Ideation & Attempt Among African Americans from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood." The study aims to: 1) identify trajectories of suicidal ideation and behavior (SIB) across adolescence and young adulthood, 2)...
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...
This Project Grant award, totaling $1,983,801, was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) - Hunter College. The award supports a mixed-methods, multi-informant study to characterize childhood suicide ideation (SI) and expressions of distress, as reported by children and their caregivers, in order to improve prediction of SI severity and...
This $103,948 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports a convergent mixed-methods study to examine psychosocial factors associated with parental self-efficacy in adolescent suicide prevention. The study aims to: 1) analyze associations between parent-level psychosocial factors, adolescent suicide-related characteristics, and parents' suicide behavior prevention self-efficacy; 2) qualitatively...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will provide $1,251,614 to examine the relationship between racially disproportionate police stops and suicide-related outcomes among Black youth. The research will be conducted by The Ohio State University from July 2024 to May 2027. The study will use advanced econometric methods to analyze the ecological relationship between police stops of Black...
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 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 of $1,549,649.37 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support a multimodal assessment of social disconnection as a risk factor for suicide ideation in older adults. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year award, which begins on April 1, 2025, include: Conducting an intensive longitudinal study over 1 year with a diverse sample of 250 men and women aged 60 and older...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.242) titled "Helping Guardians Navigate Youth Suicide Risk: Development and Piloting of a Brief Digital Intervention" to the University of Denver. The $256,627 award, with a project period from December 2024 to November 2027, aims to develop and test a digital single session intervention (SSI) and just-in-time (JIT) digital intervention for parents of pre- and early adolescents. The intervention seeks to...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $601,576 to the University of Colorado-Denver to develop and pilot test an outpatient treatment intervention for preadolescents with self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB). The intervention, titled SURE-KIDS, aims to address emotion dysregulation and executive functioning deficits within a family-based context. The 3-year project will...