Project Grant R21MH142319
- The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in the amount of $837,718. The grant, awarded on Sep 2, 2024 with an ultimate completion date of Sep 1, 2026, will fund a longitudinal observational study examining the bidirectional influences of adolescents' social media activity and individual characteristics on depressive symptoms and body dissatisfaction,...
- This $3,633,977 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to examine the bi-directional relationship between adolescent social media use and mental health. The grantee, the Center for Innovative Public Health Research, will recruit and survey 2,000 13-16 year olds in the United States over a 4-year period, collecting data on their social media usage, mood, and mental health through online surveys and...
- The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), awarded a $456,500 project grant to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for a 2-year study on the link between social media use and internalizing symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety) in at-risk youth. The study will enroll 100 youth aged 13-18 from the ongoing Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network registry to longitudinally examine how social media...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under CFDA program 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants, provides $427,625.00 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The award supports a longitudinal study examining how early adolescent social media use relates to body image concerns, with a focus on visual attention biases to self-focused digital content and the role of parental influence. The study will collect objective data on adolescent...
- The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), through the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), awarded a $759,581 project grant to The McLean Hospital Corporation located in Belmont, MA. The grant, titled "Harnessing Smartphones for Real-Time Detection of Affective Disturbance and Future Depression Risk in Adolescents," will fund research to develop data-driven approaches to predict and interrupt states of high negative affective states (e.g., sadness, anger, anxiety)...
- This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), aims to develop an innovative approach for using a large language-based computer vision model to study what youth are doing on social media and links to mental health. The $460,693 award, with a period of performance from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2027, will be conducted by the Research Triangle Institute (RTI International), a prominent non-profit research organization. The project seeks to...
- The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to Rutgers, The State University. The $469,159 grant, with a start date of Sep 11, 2024 and an end date of Sep 10, 2026, will fund a research study examining the bidirectional relationships between positive and negative social media use and suicidal ideation among high-risk adolescents. The study will use intensive monitoring approaches, including smartphone...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $256,627.00 to the University of Denver to develop and pilot test a digital intervention for parents of pre- and early adolescents. The goal is to support parents in responding effectively to suicide risk alerts generated by digital monitoring apps, thereby decreasing suicide-related behaviors in their children. The project involves three phases:...
- This $136,113 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports research on the neural mechanisms underlying the co-occurrence of depression and anxiety in adolescents. The research aims to use advanced network analysis techniques to identify disturbances in brain networks that are shared by emerging depression and anxiety, providing critical insights into the prevention and treatment of these mental...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $825,036 to the University of Pittsburgh to develop and validate a new fMRI task called the TeenBrainOnline (TBO) task. The task aims to better investigate the bidirectional links between social media use and emotional health in youth. The key objectives are to: 1) Program the TBO task for eye-tracking and create stimuli for diverse youth, 2)...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $441,430 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia. The grant, titled "HACK2HEALTH: DEVELOPING A TEEN-LED DIGITAL INTERVENTION FOR REDUCING NEGATIVE SOCIAL COMPARISON ON SOCIAL MEDIA," aims to empower older adolescents (ages 15-18) to design, pitch, and create a brief digital intervention targeting negative social comparison on social media to reduce anxiety and depression in teens. The project will be executed in 3 phases: 1) training and mentorship for 25 teens to design and pitch interventions, 2) development of the most promising intervention with professional developers, and 3) testing the final intervention in a small randomized controlled trial with 40 new teens. The grant award period is from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 8/28/25 | ||
| Not listed | $441.4k | 8/20/25 |