The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded Auburn University a Project Grant totaling $460,920 under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837). The project, titled "Using Event Momentary Assessment and Actigraphy to Investigate Mediating and Moderating Processes of Discrimination's Negative Effect on Sleep," will explore the mechanisms by which racial discrimination negatively impacts sleep among Black Americans. The study will utilize daily ecological momentary assessments and objective sleep measures (actigraphy) to investigate how discrimination triggers emotion invalidation, termed "social pain minimization," and how this in turn affects sleep quality. The project aims to identify risk factors, such as Black racial phenotypicality, that may exacerbate these effects. The findings from this research could inform future interventions to mitigate the detrimental impact of discrimination on sleep. The project period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027.
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