Project Grant R01MH145231
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. $405,505 on September 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate how daily social media engagement influences mood and coping among socially disconnected adolescents in rural and low-resource areas. The research comprises two stages. Stage 1 will collect one month of passive mobile-use data from 20 rural adolescents ages 13–17 to derive preliminary...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded $431,750 to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Division on August 20, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate social media behaviors that generate social connections and mitigate distress in early adolescence. The recipient will conduct a multimodal research investigation examining how approach-oriented social media behaviors—such as reacting to and sharing content with peers—foster social...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Pittsburgh $840,321 for a five-year Project Grant (R01MH145219) beginning September 1, 2026, to investigate the relationship between digital media use and social anxiety in adolescents under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The recipient will conduct a longitudinal study enrolling 175 adolescents ages 13–17 with varying levels of social anxiety to examine how digital experiences of social threat and...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Rutgers, The State University $100,228 on November 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to examine the short-term effects of adolescent social media experiences on suicidal ideation, with particular focus on the roles of identity exploration and functioning. The award supports research investigating how identity exploration during social media use may affect suicide risk in adolescents. The project addresses a...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $393,750 under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) on September 1, 2026, to investigate bidirectional influences between social media use and adolescent depression through analysis of frontoparietal network connectivity. The research leverages five waves of longitudinal data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (N>10,000, ages 13–18) to examine associations among...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Wisconsin - Madison $747,342 on September 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct an examination of social connection in suicide risk during the college transition. The project leverages multimodal, high-resolution assessments to elucidate how social connection across digital and physical contexts contributes to suicide risk during the transition to college. The research will collect...
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $606,480.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research examining the impact of social media use on the mental health and academic achievements of adolescents. The research team at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) will conduct an experimental study, randomly assigning adolescents to a treatment group that receives incentives to reduce social...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded The McLean Hospital Corporation $193,320 on February 18, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242, Assistance Listing) to support a K23 mentored career development award focused on online social networking mechanisms of suicide in adolescents. The award funds research establishing objective, ecologically valid assessment of interpersonal behavior in adolescents with suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBS) through analysis...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Trustees of Dartmouth College $2.366 million on September 11, 2025, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate the transmission of suicidal thoughts and behaviors among young adults on social media platforms. The research models suicide transmission dynamics on Twitter/X and Reddit using computational social science, Natural Language Processing, dynamic social network analysis, and ecological momentary...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Missouri System $143,215 on November 3, 2025, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to support a multimethod examination of social support in adolescent friends' text messages and associations with adjustment. The research will analyze how adolescent friends provide social support to each other through text message conversations and how specific support processes in digital contexts relate to adolescent...
The National Institute of Mental Health awarded West Virginia University $344,250 on September 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct Project SOCIAL, an experimental intervention study targeting adolescents' social media use and in-person social interactions. The study enrolls 400 tenth-grade students in a three-week protocol combining daily brief reports and phone tracking. Week one establishes baselines for conversation frequency and social media use. Weeks two and three randomly assign participants to one of four conditions: social media reduction (limiting use to less than one hour daily), conversation increase (one 10-minute deep conversation per day), expressive writing as an active control, or a passive control group. Students complete longer surveys at baseline, immediately post-intervention, two weeks later, and two months after the intervention concludes. The research examines whether decreased social media use and increased real-time socializing improve adolescent well-being, with analysis of mediating factors including daily mood, loneliness, and health behaviors. Performance occurs in Morgantown, West Virginia. The period of performance runs through June 30, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $344.3k | 8/25/26 |