The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $422,266 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to The Johns Hopkins University. The 2-year grant, effective September 12, 2024, will fund the development and implementation of an "Applied IPV Measurement (AIM) Shortcourse" to advance skills in intimate partner violence (IPV) measurement and research. The project aims to: 1) develop an educational curriculum to...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $252,612 to the University of Washington to develop a culturally sensitive measure and mechanism for understanding parental psychological control (PPC) in Mexican immigrant families. The project aims to adapt an existing PPC conceptual framework and measurement tool to be...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $1,371,278 to Northwestern University over approximately 5 years from March 2025 to November 2029. The grant supports research to investigate patient, partner, and provider determinants of postpartum contraception and inter-pregnancy intervals. The goal is to address the issue of...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will support a research project titled "Assessing the Impact of a Postpartum Intrauterine Device Intervention on Contraceptive Decision-Making". The $118,320 award will fund a doctoral dissertation project that aims to: (1) assess if a postpartum IUD intervention was...
This $258,301 Project Grant award was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to develop and validate a new measure of patient-centered peripartum contraceptive care. The objective is to create the "Patient-Centeredness of Peripartum Birth Control Counseling (PPBC)" measure, which will assess the patient experience of contraceptive care during pregnancy and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to improve the global measurement of intimate partner violence (IPV). The $156,486 award, granted on January 1, 2025, will support a research study with the following key objectives: Assess the performance of a quantitative method to control for measurement error and underreporting of IPV data....
The federal Project Grant award R03HD115941, totaling $318,750.00, was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award will fund a research project at The Johns Hopkins University focused on "Measuring Postpartum Pregnancy Risk to Improve Healthy Birth Intervals" in Ethiopia. The key goals are to: 1) establish common postpartum...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,033,334 Project Grant under CFDA 93.865 (Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania. The goal of this 5-year project, starting on September 16, 2024, is to improve understanding of stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa through the collection of new...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $451,358 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the University of Maryland, College Park to evaluate the validity and performance of indirect survey question methods for understanding the characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors of individuals seeking and obtaining abortions across nine U.S. states. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) evaluate the internal...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund a two-phase, $873,810 study on barriers to pregnancy care in the Midwest following recent policy changes restricting abortion access. In the first 6-month R61 phase, the research team will recruit 500 pregnant individuals seeking abortion information online to identify and...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded Arcadia University a $771,872 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to develop and test a culturally-sensitive measure of sociocultural norms related to interpregnancy intervals (IPI) among African immigrants in the U.S. The 3-year project aims to: 1) describe, using qualitative methods, the social and cultural norms about optimal birth spacing among African immigrant women and men; and 2) develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of a measure of the underlying sociocultural constructs related to birth spacing and IPI. The research team will conduct in-depth interviews with African-born participants living in the Greater Philadelphia area and use a mixed methods approach to create and validate the new measurement tool. The long-term goals are to inform the development of culturally-acceptable interventions to optimize IPI in this population, enrich the research environment at Arcadia University, and enhance career development opportunities for students.