This Project Grant award, totaling $849,608.00, was provided by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under the Nursing Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.361). The grant was awarded to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on July 26, 2024 to determine the feasibility of providing medically tailored meals to pediatric cancer patients and their families. The key product to be delivered under this grant is the implementation and evaluation of an intervention that...
The University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI) was awarded a $1,617,690 Project Grant (CFDA 93.361 - Nursing Research) by the National Institute of Nursing Research on September 20, 2024. The grant will fund a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a novel healthcare-community partnership called "Nutrition Outreach in Systems of Healthcare (NOURISH)" that aims to address food insecurity in transplant and cellular therapy patients. The study will enroll 211...
The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute awarded $2,350,623 under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota on May 1, 2021 for a project concluding on April 30, 2022. The project aims to reduce childhood obesity through an individual randomized controlled trial testing combinations of ecological momentary intervention, home visiting, and video feedback delivered to 510 low-income, racially...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), aims to determine the effectiveness and associated mechanisms of a package of deimplementation strategies to reduce the use of inappropriate feeding practices in early care and education (ECE) settings. The $614,450 award will fund a cluster-randomized hybrid Type III trial across 88 ECE...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,999,766.00 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to test the effectiveness of the "Eat for Prevention" multilevel feedback engagement model in improving dietary intake and health outcomes among 3-5-year-old children attending rural family childcare homes (FCCHs) in Nebraska. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year...
This $1,263,088 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (CFDA 93.361 Nursing Research) will fund the development and evaluation of a novel mHealth intervention called "MyChildCMC" to improve outcomes for children with medical complexity (CMC) and their parents. The project aims to: Determine the efficacy of the MyChildCMC app in reducing emergency department/hospital utilization, increasing quality of life, and improving parent satisfaction,...
This $172,197 federal Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.395 - Cancer Treatment Research) aims to establish and refine processes that facilitate clinical cancer prevention trials at the University of Kansas Cancer Center (KUCC). The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year award include: Hiring project navigators to facilitate study approvals for principal investigators in non-oncology departments outside of KUCC. Training research coordinators...
This $1,044,896 Project Grant awarded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) aims to develop a comprehensive digital platform called "FBT 2.0" that will deliver family-based behavioral treatment (FBT) for childhood obesity. The award will enable the 3-C Institute for Social Development, Inc. (3C Institute), a woman-owned small business, to create an "all-in-one" digital intervention with personalized, interactive...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) supports a study on the long-term population-level impact of a school-based parenting-focused intervention to prevent obesity among Black and Latinx children in historically disinvested neighborhoods. The $760,403 award to New York University School of Medicine will evaluate the intervention's impact on obesity (BMI) trajectories in pre-adolescence, examining...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under CFDA 93.361 Nursing Research program, provides $1,145,592 to the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical) to conduct a hybrid implementation and effectiveness evaluation of a multi-component food insecurity intervention. The key objectives are to: 1) quantify the effects of the food insecurity intervention on clinical outcomes for Medicaid enrollees with diabetes, hypertension, and...