Funding-NIH - Healthy Habits: Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents (R01); June 5, 2014

Agency

National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

Description

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks to encourage applications that employ innovative research to identify mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to age 21). Applications to promote positive health behavior(s) should target social and cultural factors, including, but not limited to: schools, families, communities, population, food industry, age-appropriate learning tools and games, social media, social networking, technology and mass media. Topics to be addressed in this announcement include: effective, sustainable processes for influencing young people to make healthy behavior choices; identification of the appropriate stage of influence for learning sustainable lifelong health behaviors; the role of technology and new media in promoting healthy behavior; identification of factors that support healthy behavior development in vulnerable populations, identification of barriers to healthy behaviors; and, identification of mechanisms and mediators that are common to the development of a range of habitual health behaviors. Given the many factors involved in developing sustainable health behaviors, applications from multidisciplinary teams are strongly encouraged. The ultimate goal of this FOA is to promote research that identifies and enhances processes that promote sustainable positive behavior or changes social and cultural norms that influence health and future health behaviors.  

Activity Code: R01 Research Project Grant  

Announcement Number: PA-14-177

Due Date: Application: June 5, 2014, October 5, 2014

Link to Full Announcement

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-177.html