This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $196,992 to Trustees of Boston College to develop and pilot test a task-shifting intervention to deliver brief interpersonal psychotherapy (BIPT-A) for suicide prevention among Latinx youth. The key objectives are to: 1) adapt the BIPT-A intervention for delivery by youth mentors in community centers, 2) train youth mentors to deliver the adapted...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support a research project to pilot a Spanish-language version of the Unstuck and On Target executive functioning intervention for Spanish-speaking neurodivergent children and their families in the U.S. and Mexico. The $160,687 award will fund a 5-year project to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of the translated...
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...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), awarded a $626,753 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct a pilot study on risk and protective factors for common mental disorders among migrant and asylum-seeking populations in Mexico. The 3-year project aims to 1) identify risk and protective factors for common mental disorders, 2) estimate the short-term effects of economic...
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...
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....
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $431,106 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to Brown University to investigate a multi-level approach leveraging innovative, culturally appropriate technology-assisted methods to reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviors and promote mental health among Colombian youth. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: (1) a digital platform for Colombian youth that provides mental...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to implement and evaluate a teen suicide prevention intervention with confidential care across 30 primary care clinics. The $1,366,396 award will fund a 3-year quasi-experimental study to test whether the implementation of this population-based intervention increases the prevalence of safety planning, suicide risk screening, assessment, and...
The federal Project Grant awarded to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, valued at $5,393,812, supports a longitudinal study investigating the impact of changes in social determinants of health (SDOH) on the mental health of adolescents and young adults (AYA) in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research is funded through the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) administered by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study...