Bidirectional Influences Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Background
The funding opportunity announcement (FOA) focuses on understanding bidirectional relationships between social media use and adolescent mental health, psychiatric symptoms, and risk or resilience for psychopathology. Adolescents have increasing access to and spend an increasing amount of time engaging in online social interactions and consuming content on social media platforms, yet there is limited knowledge of how online social behavior and experiences interact with adolescent mental health and risk for psychopathology.

Grant Details
This FOA encourages applications that focus on understanding bidirectional relationships between social media use and adolescent mental health, psychiatric symptoms, and risk or resilience for psychopathology.
Research submitted to this FOA may focus on the positive and negative impacts of social media on adolescent mental health and/or how adolescent psychopathology influences social media use. The FOA prioritizes rigorous research studies that utilize sophisticated and fine-grained approaches to assess social media use.
The research should identify individual and contextual factors that may serve as modifiable targets for intervention. The FOA also encourages research that provides insight into clinical and societal interventions that might mitigate the potential harms of social media.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include higher education institutions, nonprofits, for-profit organizations, state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, Indian/Native American tribal governments (federally recognized), independent school districts, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments), faith-based or community-based organizations, regional organizations, non-domestic (non-U.S.) entities (foreign institutions), foreign components of U.S. Organizations.
Foreign institutions are eligible to apply. Applicant organizations must complete and maintain several registrations as described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide to be eligible to apply for or receive an award.

Period of Performance
The project period is not limited but should reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
The maximum project period is 5 years.

Grant Value
NIMH intends to commit $5,000,000 total costs in FY 2023 to fund 5-6 awards across RFA-MH-23-115 and RFA-MH-23-116.
Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.