Project Grant RF1MH142331
- 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...
- 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 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 federal Project Grant award, valued at $606,480.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research examining the impact of social media use on the mental health and academic achievements of adolescents. The research team at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) will conduct an experimental study, randomly assigning adolescents to a treatment group that receives incentives to reduce social...
- 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) 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...
- This Project Grant award for $136,476 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund a study on the associations between social media use and healthy adolescent emotional development. The 2-year study aims to use a multimethod approach to examine how different types of social media use, such as belief-based, comparison-based, image-based, and consumption-based activities,...
- 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 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $832,042 to Trustees of Dartmouth College to investigate the transmission of suicidal thoughts and behaviors among young adults on social media platforms. The multi-method research project aims to model suicide transmission as a real-time process and identify modifiable risk factors. It will employ computational social science, natural language...
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 ecological momentary assessments. The study will also leverage artificial intelligence to analyze adolescents' Instagram usage data. The goal is to improve understanding of how adolescent social media exposure may impact mental health and well-being, and vice versa. Preliminary focus groups with 120 youth will help refine the survey instrument. The longitudinal data collected through this award will contribute to the evidence base on the complex relationships between adolescent social media use and mental health outcomes.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $3.6m | 9/10/25 |