Project Grant W81XWH0910242

This Project Grant award, valued at $159,000.00 and provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research), will examine the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of a combined Strategy Training (ST) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention to ST alone for improving social participation, psychological flexibility, and well-being outcomes...

This $2.9 million Defense Health Agency project grant funds research on suicide prevention among military personnel and veterans. The grant supports a multi-site randomized clinical trial through September 2026 to evaluate the efficacy of Written Exposure Therapy for Suicide Prevention compared to treatment as usual. Researchers at Boston University and partner institutions University of Colorado Denver and University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio aim to reduce suicidal thoughts and...

The Relationship Research Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $749,000 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families under the Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants program (CFDA 93.086). The "SKILLS FOR HELPING FAMILIES THRIVE" (SHIFT) project will provide relationship skills education and support services to 1,620 adult couples across six California counties over the five-year grant period. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the federal Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $1,340,333 to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) to conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of Tele-Delivered Behavioral Activation (Tele-BA-S) in preventing post-stroke depression among low-income, older stroke survivors. The study aims to determine if Tele-BA-S delivered by...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), provides $350,000 to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic in Lebanon, NH to conduct a randomized trial of a video-based family therapy intervention called Resilience Enhancement Skills Training (REST) for home-visited mothers with moderate to severe perinatal depressive symptoms, including those with co-occurring anxiety symptoms, in rural...

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) received a $4,408,773 Cooperative Agreement award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award will fund a randomized, controlled, assessor-blind clinical trial titled "Telerehabilitation in the Home After Stroke: A Randomized, Controlled, Assessor-Blind Clinical Trial (the TR-2 Trial)."...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), under the ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research program (CFDA 93.433), provides $249,900.00 to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, to develop an accessible loneliness intervention for stroke survivors with post-stroke communication difficulties such as aphasia. The key...

This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $1,215,475.00 to assess the feasibility and acceptability of two early intervention approaches for postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): written exposure therapy (WET) and capnometry-guided respiratory intervention (CGRI). The study aims to evaluate these innovative,...

The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a 4-year, $4,778,800 project grant to the University of Virginia (UVA) to conduct the "REACH Intervention for Caregivers of Veterans and Service Members with TBI: Efficacy and Implementation Planning Across the VA Polytrauma System of Care." This grant, funded under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program, aims to develop and evaluate the efficacy of the REACH caregiver support intervention for...

This Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.393 Cancer Cause and Prevention Research) provides $599,339 to the University of Miami to conduct a randomized clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of a multidisciplinary group-based telehealth intervention (HORIZONS) for improving quality of life, psychological distress, symptom burden, coping, and self-efficacy in hematopoietic stem cell transplant survivors living with chronic graft-versus-host disease. The study aims to...