Project Grant R21MH142318
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. $415,250 on August 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to assess mental health needs and service access barriers among socially disconnected young adults aged 18–25 in rural areas of the Southern United States. The project leverages geosocial network applications to engage young adults not currently receiving outpatient mental health care and employs ecological...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded $431,750 to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Division on August 20, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate social media behaviors that generate social connections and mitigate distress in early adolescence. The recipient will conduct a multimodal research investigation examining how approach-oriented social media behaviors—such as reacting to and sharing content with peers—foster social...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $393,750 under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) on September 1, 2026, to investigate bidirectional influences between social media use and adolescent depression through analysis of frontoparietal network connectivity. The research leverages five waves of longitudinal data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (N>10,000, ages 13–18) to examine associations among...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $427,625 on August 15, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate the relationship between social media use, rejection sensitivity, and depression in female adolescents. The research examines how social media characteristics—including network features and positive or negative online experiences—and endocrine contexts affect rejection sensitivity and depressive...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Rutgers, The State University $100,228 on November 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to examine the short-term effects of adolescent social media experiences on suicidal ideation, with particular focus on the roles of identity exploration and functioning. The award supports research investigating how identity exploration during social media use may affect suicide risk in adolescents. The project addresses a...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded $3.63 million under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research to investigate the bidirectional relationship between adolescent social media exposure and mental health outcomes. The four-year project, initiated September 10, 2025 and concluding September 9, 2029, will deliver a longitudinal research study tracking 2,000 adolescents aged 13-16...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded $913,000 in Project Grant funding (CFDA 93.242: Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. The research project, titled "Social Media Concerns Related to Emotional Experience in Naturalistic Settings: SCREENS," responds to RFA-MH-25-206 (Bidirectional Influences Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Award Details: The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) awarded RTI International a Project Grant of $921,386 effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. The award supports research titled "Innovating Measurement of Youth Social Media Activity: An Approach for Using a Large Language-Based Computer Vision Model to Study What Youth Are Doing on Social Media and Links to Mental...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded The McLean Hospital Corporation $193,320 on February 18, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242, Assistance Listing) to support a K23 mentored career development award focused on online social networking mechanisms of suicide in adolescents. The award funds research establishing objective, ecologically valid assessment of interpersonal behavior in adolescents with suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBS) through analysis...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Oregon $159,560 on January 1, 2027, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct a study examining the bidirectional dynamics of daily behavior and mood associated with adolescent non-suicidal self-injury using passive mobile sensing. The research leverages passive smartphone data collection, including GPS technology and the Effortless Assessment of Risk States (EARS) platform, to observe associations...
The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. $405,505 on September 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to investigate how daily social media engagement influences mood and coping among socially disconnected adolescents in rural and low-resource areas. The research comprises two stages. Stage 1 will collect one month of passive mobile-use data from 20 rural adolescents ages 13–17 to derive preliminary usage profiles and identify support-weighted versus hostile-weighted digital states, followed by semi-structured interviews to refine ecological momentary assessment (EMA) prompts. Stage 2 will recruit approximately 100 adolescents for three 14-day EMA bursts across the school year, paired with one-month pre- and post-EMA passive sensing. Twice-daily EMA surveys and optional event tags will capture recent online experiences, affect, belonging, and stress reactions; passive indicators including app-category minutes, notifications, and unlocks will contextualize behavior without content capture. Analyses will integrate qualitative, EMA, and passive data via Bayesian hierarchical and hidden Markov models to identify within-person patterns linking social media engagement to mental health outcomes. Performance occurs in Athens, Georgia. The award period runs from September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2028. The assistance type is a Project Grant, classified as an R21 exploratory grant under NIH structure.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $405.5k | 8/18/26 |