Project Grant R44DK123978

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $298,640 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the University of Utah to develop and pilot a mobile health application called ADEPT (Accessible Diarrhea Etiology Prediction Tool). The ADEPT application is designed to provide clinical decision support to rural healthcare providers in Bangladesh for the management of pediatric diarrhea, with the goal of promoting...

This Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) under the Cancer Cause and Prevention Research program (CFDA 93.393) provides $316,873 to the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital, Inc. to adapt a validated Spanish-language smoking cessation intervention into a smartphone app and conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT). The goals are to (1) develop a smartphone app version of the "Libre del Cigarrillo" intervention that has been...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $325,000 to Kairos Research LLC, a small disadvantaged business in Dayton, OH, to develop a mobile application to help Latino adolescents manage type 1 diabetes. The key products and services to be delivered under this 1-year award include optimizing the app design through end user research and internal testing (Aim 1), as well as...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $295,907 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to Liberating Technologies Inc. (LTI) to develop a prototype "Unintrusive Pediatric Logging Orthosis Analytic Device (UPLOAD)." The goal is to create a commercially viable, unobtrusive remote monitoring system for pediatric orthotics that can improve compliance tracking. Key features include long battery life, low...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will fund the development and validation of a mobile health (mHealth) application to quantify upper limb motor performance in children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy. The total award amount is $206,128 over the project period of August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. The key objectives are to test the reliability, validity, and usability...

This federal Project Grant award of $2,256,023.00 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), aims to develop a scalable smartphone app-based intervention to improve blood pressure medication adherence among Medicaid enrollees with hypertension. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Adapting the Wellth commercial smartphone app to incorporate incentives and habit-forming cues to support...

This Project Grant award for $857,121 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) aims to develop and test a prototype mobile health application called "R-ASSIST" to support individuals released from jail in their recovery from co-occurring opioid use and mental health disorders. The award will fund the development of the R-ASSIST app features, including daily self-reported symptom and medication monitoring, a self-help curriculum,...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $1,948,634 Project Grant under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to the Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to develop and evaluate a mobile health (mHealth) intervention to reduce overdose risk among people who engage in polysubstance use. The project, titled "A FRIEND IN MY POCKET": MHEALTH INTERVENTION TO REDUCE OVERDOSE RISK AMONG PEOPLE WHO ENGAGE IN POLYSUBSTANCE USE, will adapt an existing...

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) awarded a 5-year, $594,591 Project Grant (CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research) to the University of Pittsburgh to evaluate the impact of a mobile app-based intervention on glycemic control in adolescents and young adults (AYA) with type 2 diabetes. The "REFLECT2D" project will assess the effects of real-time prompts within the HealthMine app, which integrates continuous...

The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1 Project Grant (R01MH136153) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to develop and test a Measurement Feedback System (MFS) app called "Footsteps" that aims to improve data collection, supervision, and outcomes in behavioral health settings. The MFS app integrates digital data collection, tools for supervisors to review data and provide feedback, and behavioral economics-informed features like gamification and...