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Use this Research Funding collection to compare research questions, settings, and nursing implications across 30 reviewed records. Start with the original source and limitations before carrying a finding into teaching or practice.
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...
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...
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...
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..
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..
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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..
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,...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
