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Leveraging Technology to Promote Skill Utilization and Enhance Treatment Outcomes in Young Adolescents with ADHD

Award Number: K23MH122839
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 11/15/2020
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 11/14/2025

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Leveraging Technology to Promote Skill Utilization and Enhance Treatment Outcomes in Young Adolescents with ADHD - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT While evidence-based behavioral treatments for adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are well-established, these interventions most often fail to generalize across settings and are associated with intervention effects that dissipate over time. The current proposal takes a theory-driven, empirical approach for optimizing existing behavioral treatment by targeting adolescents’ skills utilization and engaging other modifiable factors associated with trajectories of ADHD-related impairment including reward sensitivity, motivation, executive functioning, and social support. Mobile technologies offer transformative opportunities for engaging these targets and overcoming the notorious challenges impeding treatment adherence for adolescents with ADHD. This mentored K23 award will support the candidate in developing an independent research career investigating innovative approaches for optimizing treatment response for youth with ADHD. This K23 is designed to provide the necessary training to become an expert in leveraging technology-enhanced resources to target behavioral skill utilization in order to enhance treatment response and promote sustained improvement. This award will provide the candidate with advanced training in: (1) interactive health technologies; (2) adherence promotion; (3) methods and statistical approaches for ecological valid, real time assessment and adaptive intervention designs; and (4) mechanism-based intervention refinement and evaluation; and (5) grant writing skills and research dissemination. Through the University of California, San Francisco (USCF) Laboratory for Hyperactivity, Attention, and Learning Problems (HALP) and the UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Award, the candidate is uniquely equipped with resources to achieve her training objectives and complete this research. The mentorship team includes senior level investigators with active federally-funded research, experience mentoring early-career investigators, and expertise in: implementing persuasive technology for adherence and behavior change (Lyles), user-centered design, development, and evaluation with adolescents (Ozer), human-computer interaction and gamification (Gazzaley), ecological skills assessment (Lindhiem), adaptive intervention designs with digital tools (Murphy), and mechanisms underlying interventions (Pfiffner; HALP Director, primary mentor). Applying this training, the proposed research will use an iterative stakeholder-centered design to develop, refine, and preliminarily test a scalable digital health tool, applied as an adjunct to behavioral treatment for adolescents with ADHD (ages 11- 14). Following usability testing to guide refinements, a small pilot RCT (N=60) will examine target engagement and validation (skills utilization) for promoting enhanced and evaluate the feasibility of this novel tool when integrated with treatment delivery. The training, mentorship, and research supported by this K23 will facilitate the candidate in designing the next phase of this research, a large-scale adaptive intervention trial (R01) that delivers personalized strategies to optimize treatment engagement and skills utilization in real time.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE	111 MICHIGAN AVE NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20010	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	5	12/20/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $161,412 )
2024	2024	CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE	111 MICHIGAN AVE NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20010	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	5	10/27/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$161,412
														Subtotal = $161,412

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $161,412 )
2023	2023	CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE	111 MICHIGAN AVE NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20010	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	4	11/2/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$161,412
														Subtotal = $161,412

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $161,412 )
2022	2022	CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE	111 MICHIGAN AVE NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20010	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	3	11/1/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$161,412
														Subtotal = $161,412

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = -$37,686 )
2021	2020	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94143	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	1	1/29/2021	NEW	-$199,098
2021	2020	CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE	111 MICHIGAN AVE NW	WASHINGTON	DC	20010	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	001	2	1/29/2021	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$161,412
														Subtotal = -$37,686

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $199,098 )
2020	2020	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	1855 FOLSOM ST STE 425	SAN FRANCISCO	CA	94143	SAN FRANCISCO	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	1	4/3/2020	NEW	$199,098
														Subtotal = $199,098

Grand Total All Awards = $645,648

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Leveraging Technology to Promote Skill Utilization and Enhance Treatment Outcomes in Young Adolescents with ADHD

Award Number: K23MH122839

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 11/15/2020

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 11/14/2025

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