National Institute on Aging / 2025 / United States
An NIA-funded doctoral proposal to study how co-occurring serious mental illness shapes symptoms, care needs, and outcomes for nursing-home residents with dementia, using large MDS 3.0 data plus staff interviews. No...
National Institute on Aging / 2025 / United States
A funded cohort-study protocol using linked 2016-2019 Medicare data to examine how electroconvulsive therapy relates to neuropsychiatric symptoms, geriatric syndromes, admissions, and mortality in older adults with...
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases / 2025 / United States
A funded proposal to test time-restricted eating, alone or with a low-glycemic snack, against a Mediterranean-diet standard of care in overweight night-shift nurses, using an app and wearables to see whether meal...
National Institute of Mental Health / 2025 / United States
A funded NIMH proposal (no results yet) plans to use 2016 to 2023 Medicaid claims data to study how mental health provider-network size, churn, panel size, and telemedicine affect access and outcomes, with a focus that..
National Institute on Aging / 2026 / United States
A National Institute on Aging career development award proposing a randomized trial of Internet-delivered CBT-I versus patient education in older adults with insomnia and mild cognitive impairment; it is a plan to test..
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development / 2026 / United States
A funded fellowship protocol that will use survey and registry data from 55 Washington hospitals to estimate whether the person-centered TeamBirth model changes perceived autonomy and Cesarean rates among low-risk...
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism / 2026 / United States
A funded dissemination core plans to move alcohol-use science into Indiana schools, health care settings, and communities using a participatory, equity-focused approach; it describes aims, not results.
National Institute on Drug Abuse / 2026 / United States
A National Institute on Drug Abuse K23 career development proposal to adapt, refine, and pilot-test an ambulatory intensive care team model for medically complex, high-utilizing patients with opioid use disorder in a...
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development / 2026 / United States
A NICHD K23 proposal to study the under-examined first year after discharge for infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS), aiming to quantify readmission risks and costs and to inform a home-visiting...
National Institute on Drug Abuse / 2026 / United States
A National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded research plan to study how moral injury and social and environmental factors shape substance use, mental health, and suicidality among low-wage US healthcare workers. It...
Veterans Affairs / 2026 / United States
A three-year, pre-implementation study to adapt the PLIE group movement program (which builds on abilities preserved in dementia) for VA Community Living Centers and to develop and pilot remote staff training.
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute / 2026 / United States
A funded NHLBI proposal to develop and pilot 'Cardiac Fears Treatment,' an exposure-based therapy for PTSD after cardiac events. It lays out aims and a small staged trial but reports no results yet.
National Cancer Institute / 2026 / United States
A National Cancer Institute R01 proposal for a 200-caregiver trial of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Caregivers (MCP-C) versus supportive psychotherapy; an earlier pilot found it feasible and helpful, but...
Veterans Affairs / 2026 / United States
A funded proposal for a four-year stepped-wedge randomized trial testing whether the LOCK frontline huddling program reduces falls and improves staff wellbeing in State Veterans Home nursing homes; no results yet.
NIH Office of the Director / 2026 / United States
A funded network and infrastructure project to expand rural children's access to pediatric clinical trials in Vermont through inclusive multicenter studies, research-capacity building, and community engagement; it...
National Institute of Mental Health / 2026 / United States
An NIMH K23 proposal to build machine-learning models from electronic health record and claims data to estimate six-month severe mood-crisis risk in young people with bipolar disorder, and to co-design a clinical...
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health / 2026 / United States
A funded phase 1 protocol proposing to test whether a chaplain-delivered, compassion-based team intervention (CCSH-TI) is feasible and acceptable for improving psychological safety and reducing burnout at a cancer...
National Institute on Aging / 2026 / United States
A funded proposal to build real-world evidence on how to safely reduce antipsychotic use for dementia-related symptoms in nursing-home residents; it describes aims and methods, not results.
Veterans Affairs / 2026 / United States
A VA Center of Innovation (THRIVE) mission document describing research to improve long-term services and supports, equity, and independence for aging Veterans through a Learning Health System model; it states goals...
National Institute of Mental Health / 2026 / United States
An NIMH-funded K08 proposal to study, longitudinally, how stress, work environment, hair-cortisol biomarkers, and epigenetics relate to suicide risk in nurses, a population cited at nearly double the general-population..
National Institute on Aging / 2026 / United States
A National Institute on Aging R01 proposal to study social connectedness and isolation in nursing home residents using large linked datasets, including a COVID-19 'natural experiment.' It sets out questions to answer,...
National Institute on Drug Abuse / 2026 / United States
A company's funded proposal to refine and clinically test a wearable acoustic monitor that scores the risk of opioid-induced respiratory depression; it describes aims and design, not proven results.
National Institute of Nursing Research / 2026 / United States
A nurse-led, systems-focused proposal to reduce burnout by having frontline nurses redesign the work conditions that drive it; it reports aims and preliminary work, not effectiveness results.
National Institute on Aging / 2026 / United States
An NIA-funded UCSF training program (Research Education Component) that mentors and supports emerging Alzheimer's-research scholars, including nurses, rather than a clinical study. It reports program structure and...
National Institute on Aging / 2026 / United States
A funded qualitative study protocol that will interview about 16 hospital dementia care triads (nurse, patient, caregiver), guided by an implementation framework, to describe dementia friendly care and identify what...
National Institute of Mental Health / 2026 / United States
A funded five-year mixed-methods proposal to test whether and when higher Medicaid payments improve mental health access and outcomes, using national claims data and interviews; it reports methods, not results.
National Institute of Nursing Research / 2026 / United States
An NINR-funded R01 proposal to evaluate state, organizational, and frontline changes that could reduce hospital-nurse burnout, using 20 years of repeated data from about 535 hospitals and nurse-leader interviews. No...
Veterans Affairs / 2026 / United States
A funded proposal for a stepped-wedge cluster RCT of MAP-VA, a Montessori-based person-centered care toolkit for VA Community Living Center Veterans with dementia and serious mental illness; pilot signals are...
National Institute on Aging / 2026 / United States
A National Institute on Aging K01 proposal to study how nursing home residents' backgrounds and life experiences relate to resident-to-resident aggression, especially in dementia, and to develop a staff education...
National Institute on Aging / 2026 / United States
A funded proposal for a 200-person RCT of Learning Skills Together, a self-efficacy-based online program that builds dementia caregivers' confidence; promising pilot data exist, but definitive effectiveness is unproven.