This Project Grant award of $1,855,707.00 from the 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 longitudinal study investigating the complex relationships between family media use, caregiver-child interactions, and behavioral outcomes in at-risk young children. The primary objectives are to: 1) examine transactional associations between characteristics of family media use...
This Project Grant award for $214,925.00, awarded on August 7, 2024 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will support research at the University of South Carolina on early predictors of infant-parent coordinated attention and word learning in preterm and full-term infants. The research aims to explore fundamental developmental processes and health outcomes affecting infants,...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $701,749 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865) to the University of Wisconsin System to expand the longitudinal "The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing" study. The grant will fund the collection of data on family context, parenting behaviors, and child development for all third-generation (G3) children born to participants in the existing two-generation cohort study. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is the...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $600,914.01 Project Grant under CFDA 93.865 (Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to The University of Iowa. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will support a longitudinal study on the effects of neonatal stress in very preterm infants, focusing on epigenetics and neurodevelopment. The study aims to advance scientific understanding of the long-term impacts of preterm birth, which affects 1...
This Project Grant award of $225,306.00 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports a secondary data analysis study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study aims to explore the mediating pathways by which maternal childhood maltreatment (CM) may increase the risk of externalizing and internalizing psychopathology among adolescent offspring. The...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $259,818 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to characterize adherence and estimate per-protocol effects for pediatric dolutegravir use. The research aims to (1) characterize barriers to pediatric dolutegravir combination therapy adherence, and (2) estimate per-protocol effects of treatment failure by 96...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program, aims to examine the implementation of childhood exposure to violence (CEV) assessment in pediatric primary care settings. The $115,203 award will fund research to: (1) identify existing CEV assessment practices, (2) delineate facilitators and barriers to CEV assessment, (3) characterize patterns of...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a 5-year, $1.89M Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of California, Irvine. The grant supports a short-term longitudinal experimental study examining the effects of acute stress on memory performance between maltreated and non-maltreated 12-17-year-old youth. The research aims to provide insights into how maltreatment shapes youth's...
This $231,552 Project Grant awarded by 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 investigate the relationship between sleep, motor learning, and motor development in early childhood. The primary objectives are to: 1) Identify sleep EEG markers that predict motor memory consolidation in 4-year-old children, and 2) Determine how changes in sleep physiology (e.g., sleep...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) totaling $707,203 provides funding to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct a short-term longitudinal study on the role of parasympathetic function in predicting school readiness and early school success among low-income children. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include:...