This $779,911 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to evaluate the impact of a music-based intervention (MBI) on preterm infant stress, brain development, and long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes. The MBI will be delivered to preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) between 32-40 weeks gestation, with outcomes assessed during the NICU stay and up to 2...
This 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) will fund a multi-site randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a medical-financial partnership intervention on parent mental health, perinatal outcomes, and child developmental risk. The $494,251 award to the University of California, Los Angeles will support the implementation and evaluation of a...
This Project Grant award of $794,931 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), will fund a study on the relationship between early parent-infant synchrony and outcomes in middle childhood for infants at genetic risk for ADHD or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The study will leverage three longitudinal cohorts of 326 infants previously seen from 6 months to 3 years of age, extending follow-up to ages 6-10 years. Researchers...
This Project Grant award of $119,721, 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), will fund research at Texas A&M University to investigate biological and behavioral mechanisms underlying parent-child interactions. The research aims to provide a better understanding of how maternal and paternal caregiving behaviors, including verbal and nonverbal mentalizing, relate to...
This 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 $152,816 to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to develop innovative measures of behavioral synchrony, a key feature of caregiver-child interactions, and examine whether these dyadic mechanisms change across an early intervention program. The project aims to advance...
This $131,333 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) will support research to investigate the emotional and biobehavioral mechanisms underlying parent-infant emotional synchrony. The overarching goal is to uncover the origins of early dyadic interactions and their impact on later child socioemotional functioning, with the aim of developing targeted...
This Project Grant award, valued at $235,500.00, 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). The funding supports a research project to characterize the emotional environment of infants from 6 to 17 months of age. The key objectives are to describe infants' exposure to emotion information, including facial expressions and emotion language used by caregivers, and...
This Project Grant award, valued at $127,722 and provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, will support a longitudinal study examining the associations among maternal stress, infant epigenetics, and behavioral and cognitive development in early childhood. The primary recipient, Teachers College Columbia University, will leverage an existing birth cohort of socioeconomically diverse...
This 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 develop and evaluate the "Talk Parenting" (TP) program. TP is a smart speaker-based tool that delivers in-situ parenting support to help families build healthy bedtime and morning routines, as well as provide calming techniques for children and parents. The award supports the...
This 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 $211,875 to New York University School of Medicine to validate a self-report measure called the STIMQ2SR for assessing cognitive stimulation in the home environment. The key objectives are to: 1) Assess the psychometric properties of the STIMQ2SR, and 2) Evaluate the criterion-related validity and...
This 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 $251,250 to Yale University to conduct a randomized trial exploring the effects of enriched parent-infant interaction on infant and parent health outcomes.
The study will evaluate the impacts of three intervention conditions: (1) a smartphone-based music intervention to teach parents interactive singing with infants, (2) provision of music recordings for parents to listen to with infants, and (3) provision of interactive books for parents to read with infants. These interventions will be compared to a no-treatment control group over an 8-month period. Key outcomes to be measured include infant distress/recovery, sleep quality, mood, and parent mood, mental health, and parenting efficacy. The study aims to determine the feasibility and relative effects of low-cost, low-effort early enrichment interventions, with a focus on benefits for underprivileged families and first-time parents. The project runs from August 2024 to July 2026.