This Project Grant award of $1,677,674, provided by the National Institutes of Health's Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), will fund a study to elucidate how mental health during late adolescence and early adulthood is influenced by LGBT-targeted policies. The primary awardee, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc., will use a multi-method approach to quantify associations between LGBT-targeted policies, enacted stigma, and mental health in young adult college students. This will...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to optimize an automated chatbot to provide efficient, scalable treatment for eating disorders (EDs). The $1,682,938 award will fund a multiphase optimization randomized controlled trial (ORCT) to test four candidate ED treatment components and identify the most effective chatbot package. The study will enroll 800 adults with EDs, not currently in...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is funding a pilot randomized controlled trial of a mobile health (mHealth) intervention called "Building Healthy Eating and Self-Esteem Together for University Students" (BEST-U). The goal is to test the effectiveness of the BEST-U app in reducing binge eating and improving dietary restraint and weight/shape concerns among university students...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants, provides $422,206 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to develop and pilot test a psychosocial intervention for sexual and gender minority autistic adults. The award will support Dr. Laura Graham Holmes, a clinical psychologist, to acquire skills in community-engaged intervention development, clinical trial design, and safety monitoring...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA Program 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants provides $874,625 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to study avoidance learning and its relationship to eating disorder symptoms in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The research aims to identify neural and behavioral processes that drive eating disorder symptomatology, with a focus on differentiating between active and passive...
The federal Project Grant award R34MH134603, totaling $1,029,739.00, was awarded on September 11, 2024 by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The award supports the "Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of an Adapted Group-Based and Online HIV Prevention Intervention for Immigrant Sexual Minority Men in the US" project. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) adapt the existing ESTEEM...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to The Trustees of Princeton University, totaling $597,881 with an award date of Aug 1, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of Mar 12, 2025. The project aims to elucidate the psychological processes that give rise to gender disparities in mental health across adolescent development. The research will involve a diverse sample of cisgender and transgender...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $600,000 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct a longitudinal study examining psychosocial predictors of suicidal behavior risk among gender minority adolescents (GMAs). The study aims to identify how general stressors and unique psychosocial experiences, such as gender transition steps and minority stress, predict changes in risk factors for suicidal behavior over...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $632,775 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation. The grant aims to develop and pilot test the EMPOWER (Enhancing and Motivating PrEP Options among Women through Empowerment and Resilience) telehealth intervention to optimize pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake and persistence among African American women in the southern United States. The project...
This $664,382 Project Grant award was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The primary aim is to develop and pilot a mobile health (mHealth) intervention to overcome stigma and promote use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among Thai young transgender women, a population at high risk for HIV. The project will adapt the Healthy Choices intervention for mHealth...