The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a 4-year, $640,196 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct research on suicide risk and protective factors among economically disadvantaged, preteen Black youth. The project aims to: 1) characterize the severity and course of suicide ideation and behaviors (SIB) in a sample of 1,000 urban, economically disadvantaged Black preadolescents; 2) identify individual, environmental, and...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $857,060 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to study the "Social-Ecological and Individual Determinants of the Course of Suicidal Ideation & Attempt Among African Americans from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood". The 3-year project aims to identify trajectories of suicidal ideation and behaviors among Black youth, and determine individual and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $1,225,424 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to investigate social motivation as a risk factor for suicidal thoughts and behaviors in preteen girls. The 4-year study aims to refine assessments of social motivation and suicidal thoughts/behaviors, test whether maladaptive social motivation contributes to the emergence of...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides funding of $739,843 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania. The 5-year research project, running from September 2024 to June 2029, aims to study the role of environmental exposures (the "exposome") and biological stress burden (allostatic load) in understanding risk and resilience...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) totaling $1,382,278 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, Hunter College, to conduct a mixed-methods study on childhood suicide ideation and expressions of distress. The project aims to characterize suicide ideation profiles among ethnically diverse children ages 8-12 and assess how these profiles relate to suicide attempt risk and expressions of...
This federal Project Grant award of $701,099 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports a study on social disconnection as a risk factor for suicide ideation in older adults. The 4-year project, awarded to Rutgers, The State University, will leverage a multimodal assessment approach, including interviews, laboratory-based paradigms, and ecological momentary assessments, to examine how rejection sensitivity...
This Project Grant award of $1,303,830 from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) supports research to address gaps in understanding risk and resilience factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors among sexual and gender minority (SGM) preteens. The research aims to: Develop consensus on best practices for safely and effectively sampling, recruiting, and retaining high-risk SGM preteens into research. Create and pretest an assessment tool to...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $256,627 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of Denver to develop and pilot a brief digital intervention for parents of pre- and early adolescents targeted at improving their skills in emotion regulation, validation, and suicide-specific monitoring. The goal is to support parents in responding effectively to suicide risk alerts generated by digital monitoring apps, thereby reducing...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $469,159 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to Rutgers, The State University to conduct a 2-year study on the relationship between social media use and suicidal ideation in high-risk adolescents. The project will use innovative methods like smartphone sensing and ecological momentary assessment to objectively examine how patterns, positive, and negative uses of social media relate to suicidal thoughts, as well as...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,413,352.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports research to evaluate the relationship between emotion reactivity, cognitive reappraisal, and suicidal ideation in middle-aged and older adults following a suicide-related hospitalization. The primary objectives are to: 1) examine the independent and combined effects of emotion reactivity and cognitive reappraisal on the...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA program 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants provides $1,135,986 to Rutgers, The State University to conduct research on suicide risk in preteen youth. The key objectives are to:
Adapt an existing measure of suicide risk for 12-18 year olds into a developmentally and culturally appropriate measure for preteens aged 8-12 years old. This will involve expert input and interviews with preteen-caregiver dyads.
Use the new preteen suicide risk measure to establish phenotypes of suicide risk, including self-reported risk factors and objectively measured factors like sleep disturbance, through a 28-day intensive longitudinal monitoring study with 150 preteen-caregiver dyads.
Examine how the identified suicide risk phenotypes predict future suicidal thoughts, behaviors, and other suicide-related events over a 6-month follow-up period in the same preteen sample.
The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to May 31, 2028, with the goal of addressing critical gaps in understanding suicide risk among preteen youth, particularly youth of color, and informing the development of targeted prevention and intervention strategies.