This Project Grant award of $111,750.00 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) will fund a study to optimize a weight-neutral intervention to improve health among adults with higher body weight. The study, conducted by The Miriam Hospital, a non-profit hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, will pilot test combinations of evidence-based weight-neutral components,...
This $631,896 R01 project grant awarded by 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 compare the effectiveness of two remotely-delivered behavioral weight loss interventions. The project will evaluate an automated online program versus a group-based videoconference program, both with and without the addition of individual coaching, to determine which...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) is providing $940,798 to The Miriam Hospital to develop an optimized, stepped care intervention to help under-resourced patients maintain improvements in key health behaviors after completing cardiac rehabilitation. The project will utilize a sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial (SMART) design to create an adaptive intervention that minimizes patient burden....
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) awarded a 5-year, $663,232 Project Grant under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) to the University of Florida. The grant will fund a hybrid effectiveness and implementation trial to test the use of online weight loss tools, including a commercial goal-setting and self-monitoring platform and online support communities, to increase weight loss among primary care...
This 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), will fund the development of a comprehensive ontology model and automated counseling system for delivering motivational interviewing (MI) to patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The $447,394 award, effective August 29, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will support researchers at the...
This Project Grant award of $1,573,594 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), supports the scaling up of the "Building Healthy Families" (BHF) childhood obesity intervention in rural and micropolitan communities across a 6-state region. The project aims to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of the BHF online training resources and...
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) awarded a $303,000 Project Grant (CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research) to Drexel University to pilot a patient navigator program. The program aims to facilitate increased uptake and persistence with evidence-based weight loss interventions among adults with overweight or obesity. Over the 3-year award period, the study will assess the feasibility, acceptability, and initial...
This 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), will support a pilot study to optimize a school-based obesity prevention intervention for adolescent girls in an urban informal settlement in Kenya. The $161,871 award, effective August 1, 2025, will fund a community-engaged process to refine the intervention components and conduct a pilot...
This 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), provides $154,381 to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic to conduct a training and research program aimed at improving self-advocacy and outcomes for rural residents with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Co-adapting an existing visit agenda-setting...
This $127,623 federal Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), aims to test the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) to prevent goal disengagement in response to weight regain following behavioral weight loss treatment. The award recipient, Drexel University, will randomly assign 120 adults who have lost at least 5% of their weight...