This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to develop and pilot a brief digital intervention to support parents in responding effectively to suicide risk alerts received through a digital monitoring app for pre- and early adolescent youth. The $256,627 award to the University of Denver will fund the three-phase project, which includes: 1) co-creating and refining a single-session intervention...
This $1,135,986 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to clarify phenotypes of suicide risk in preteen youth (ages 8-12). The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year award include: Adapting and validating a time-varying measure of suicide risk for preteens, building on the research team's existing suicide risk assessment tool for older adolescents. This will involve expert...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,037,835.00 was made by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under its Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The funding supports the "I-CARE: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A MODULAR DIGITAL INTERVENTION TO REDUCE SUICIDAL IDEATION AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS DURING PEDIATRIC PSYCHIATRIC BOARDING" research project. The primary objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of the I-CARE digital intervention in reducing emotional distress,...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,915,662.00, provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program, supports research to investigate social motivation as a novel risk factor linking childhood threat exposure and suicidal ideation and behavior in preteen girls. The key research objectives are to: 1) refine assessments of social motivation and suicidal thoughts/behaviors for use in preteen girls; 2) test the hypothesis that...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $838,010 in funding to conduct a transdiagnostic study examining the role of emotional impulsivity in suicidal ideation and behavior. The study aims to enroll 160 participants with schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) or major depressive disorder (MDD), stratified into high and low suicidal behavior groups, as well as 20 healthy controls....
This $1,382,278 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to characterize childhood suicide ideation and expressions of distress among a diverse sample of 150 children aged 8-12, as reported by the children and their caregivers. The 4-year study, led by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, will identify profiles of suicide ideation, test how these profiles predict...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $1,413,352 to evaluate the relationship between emotion reactivity, cognitive reappraisal, and suicidal ideation in middle-aged and older adults at high suicide risk. The project will recruit 162 participants recently hospitalized for suicidality and follow them for 6 months after discharge. Electrocortical measures, self-reported affect, and...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $2,917,827 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to San Diego State University Foundation to conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of an executive functioning intervention for children's mental health services. The project, titled "Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of an Executive Functioning Intervention for Children's Mental Health Services," aims to evaluate the effectiveness and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports the development and testing of a novel personalized suicide prevention intervention called PRECISE (Personalized Clinical Intervention for Suicidal Events). The award, totaling $178,319 and spanning 2025-2030, aims to leverage intensive longitudinal data and network science to tailor evidence-based treatments, such as safety planning and...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $7,988,298 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants) to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct research on whether early preventive interventions delivered before adulthood can reduce the risk of suicide, overdose, and related adverse outcomes. The study will integrate and harmonize data from 29 existing randomized clinical trials involving 42,509 participants to examine the cross-over effects of these...