This $1,955,745 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program will fund a 4-year study to measure and map trajectories of risk and resilience for suicidal thoughts and behaviors among sexual and gender minority (SGM) preteens. The study aims to: 1) develop consensus on best practices for safely and effectively sampling, recruiting, and retaining high-risk SGM preteens into research; 2) create and pretest an...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $196,875 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Ohio State University to conduct research on "Digital Monitoring of Emotion Regulation and Suicidal Ideation Among Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis". The 2-year study aims to examine emotion regulation as a mechanism for suicidal ideation in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis, using ecological momentary assessment, wearable...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $661,237 over 5 years to The Ohio State University to conduct research on optimizing brief coping skills interventions for suicide prevention. The study aims to intensively characterize the contexts in which patients at high risk for suicide are most likely to use and benefit from their safety planning interventions, leveraging technology and...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in the amount of $837,718. The grant, awarded on Sep 2, 2024 with an ultimate completion date of Sep 1, 2026, will fund a longitudinal observational study examining the bidirectional influences of adolescents' social media activity and individual characteristics on depressive symptoms and body dissatisfaction,...
This Project Grant award of $1,549,649.37 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program supports a research project titled "Multimodal Assessment of Social Disconnection as a Proximal Risk for Suicide Ideation in Late Life." The project aims to leverage a multimodal assessment of behavioral and social mechanisms to identify predictors relating social disconnection to suicidal ideation in older adults. Key activities...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $2,809,928 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct a multi-site, double-blind, randomized-controlled efficacy trial of a transdiagnostic intervention for sleep and circadian dysfunction to improve depression symptoms in older adults with high suicide risk. The study aims to confirm the target engagement and efficacy of this intervention, as well as develop an algorithm to...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a 4-year, $640,196 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program to The Johns Hopkins University 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) during pre- and early adolescence in a sample of 1,000 Black youth; 2) identify individual, environmental, and...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The $200,607 grant, awarded on Aug 29, 2024, will fund a study examining subtypes of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) in youth participating in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. The research aims to identify distinct neurobiological, behavioral, and psychological profiles of youth...
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...
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)...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a 5-year, $2,447,643 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program to The Ohio State University. The grant, awarded on January 1, 2025, will support a longitudinal study examining the developmental trajectories of depression and suicidal ideation among bisexual and other people attracted to multiple genders (BI+) from adolescence to young adulthood.
The study aims to: 1) identify diverse trajectories of depression and suicidal ideation among BI+ individuals; 2) examine identity-related risk factors and underlying mechanisms for these mental health outcomes across development; and 3) investigate identity-related protective factors that may buffer the associations between risk factors and depression/suicidal ideation. The project will utilize an accelerated longitudinal design to efficiently capture developmental changes over the 5-year period. The Ohio State University will collaborate with researchers from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science, the University of Maryland, College Park, and Washington University on various aspects of the study, including measure development, recruitment, and data analysis.