The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The grant program seeks pilot research projects focused on adapting, optimizing, and testing empirically supported behavioral interventions for sleep problems in adolescents and young adults with or at risk for a mental health disorder. It aims to evaluate these interventions' feasibility, tolerability, acceptability, safety, and potential effectiveness in real-world settings. The program emphasizes the importance of targeting underserved and understudied youth populations, conducting preliminary tests on interventions' impacts on sleep and mental health outcomes, and gathering initial data for future large-scale effectiveness trials.