This R21 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) provides $590,710 to evaluate the use of visual informed consent forms (ICFs) in maternal and child health research. The project partners researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Stellenbosch University in South Africa with RTI International to prospectively evaluate the visual ICF...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.865) totaling $244,190 to the Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to develop and assess the feasibility of the Parent Infant Interac(X)tion Intervention (PIXI), a telehealth-based early intervention program for families of infants with neurogenetic conditions (NGCs). The study aims to: (1) identify participation facilitators and barriers for Black/African American and Hispanic...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to Innovation Research And Training, Inc. (IRT), a woman-owned small business research organization in Durham, North Carolina. The $791,988 grant, which runs from September 1, 2024 to March 21, 2025, will support a longitudinal study examining the sexual health and quality of life trajectories of community college students aged...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $340,143 Project Grant to Teen Health Research, Inc. under the CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program. The grant will fund the development of "TheTalk", a customizable online platform to improve parent-adolescent communication about sexual and reproductive health. The platform aims to provide adolescents aged 10-13 with inclusive, medically accurate, age-appropriate, and...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded Washington State University a $138,097 Project Grant under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) on June 3, 2022. The grant will fund a study examining the effects of mother-infant brain activity coordination on emerging self-regulation by testing the synchronization hypothesis. Researchers will study the extent of neural synchronization between mothers and infants during a regulatory challenge task known as...
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) provides $712,096 to Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Inc. (doing business as Influents Innovations) to develop and evaluate a smart speaker-based parenting education program called "Talk Parenting" (TP). The TP program aims to deliver in-situ support to parents of young...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (CFDA 93.361 Nursing Research) provides $239,384 to the University of Maryland, Baltimore to examine family communication and adaptation among siblings of seriously ill children in pediatric palliative care. The key objectives are to: 1) determine the relationship between family demands, family communication, and sibling adaptation; 2) identify communication needs, challenges, and preferences among siblings and parents; and...
This $437,474 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will fund a study titled "Juggling Roles: A Study of Diverse Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Parents and Their Work-Family Transition" at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. The study aims to investigate the experiences and challenges faced by parents of preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) as...
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) awarded a $470,250 Project Grant (CFDA 93.172 - Human Genome Research) to Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) to explore the perspectives of diverse parents on issues related to pediatric genome testing, research, and data management. The award will fund a qualitative pilot study utilizing focus groups, interviews, and a survey to: (1) examine attitudes towards genome sequencing for clinical testing and research with a focus on...
The University of Tennessee received a $420,750 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). The grant, with a project period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will support research to examine predictive factors influencing language development trajectories during the first 3 years of life, particularly in very low birth weight (VLBW) preterm infants. The research aims to identify...