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Understanding the Role of Mental Healthcare Access and Availability for Suicide Risk among Adolescents & Young Adults

Award Number: R01MD018679
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/17/2024
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 12/31/2027

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Understanding the Role of Mental Healthcare Access and Availability for Suicide Risk among Adolescents & Young Adults - PROJECT SUMMARY Black adolescents and young adults (AYA) face profound and increasing suicide rates. Evidence suggests that differences in individual risk factors (e.g., mood disorders, substance use) do not account for these trends. Longitudinal research is needed to highlight whether mental healthcare access and availability may be driving increases in Black AYA suicide risk, including suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs), and to translate these findings into public health interventions for U.S. American AYA. We propose to build from an existing infrastructure supporting our U.S. national U-award study, to enroll a cohort of 1,000 Black AYA from ages 16 to 24 in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. We will use a combined approach to recruitment (e.g., digital recruitment techniques, community partner networks) that is adaptive to known shifts in digital technology and capitalizes on community-, school-, and internet-based networks maintained by our collaborators. Participants will complete a web-based survey at enrollment and annually thereafter for two years that assesses STBs, established microsystemic suicide precursors (interpersonal risk factors [thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness], local suicide prevention resources [access to psychotherapy, health services]), STB correlates (e.g., stress, anxiety, substance use), and key sociodemographic (e.g., age) and contextual variables. Concordant with study enrollment, our multidisciplinary team of researchers, care providers, and public health experts will develop novel metrics to quantify mental healthcare access and availability for Black adolescents and young adults (Aim 1). We will subsequently utilize these metrics and the longitudinal follow-up data to test whether there are direct associations from mental healthcare access and availability for Black adolescents and young adults to later STBs (Aim 2). We will also use these data to test indirect associations from mental healthcare access and availability for Black adolescents and young adults to STBs through increased interpersonal suicide risk factors (thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness; Aim 3a) and decreased access to local suicide prevention resources (psychotherapy; AYA health services Aim 3b). The proposed study will provide evidence to develop and disseminate recommendations to reduce suicide among all U.S. American AYA by identifying risk and prevention factors among one of the groups at highest risk for suicide: Black AYA.


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: 2026 ( Subtotal = $633,470 )
2026	2026	RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	65 BERGEN ST	NEWARK	NJ	07107	ESSEX	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	3	1/2/2026	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$570,123
2026	2026	RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	65 BERGEN ST	NEWARK	NJ	07107	ESSEX	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	3	2/23/2026	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$63,347
														Subtotal = $633,470

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $647,608 )
2025	2025	RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	65 BERGEN ST	NEWARK	NJ	07107	ESSEX	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	2	3/20/2025	TERMINATION	$0
2025	2025	RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	65 BERGEN ST	NEWARK	NJ	07107	ESSEX	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	2	1/2/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$582,847
2025	2025	RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	65 BERGEN ST	NEWARK	NJ	07107	ESSEX	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	003	2	7/8/2025	OTHER REVISION	$64,761
2025	2025	RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	65 BERGEN ST	NEWARK	NJ	07107	ESSEX	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	2	6/30/2025	OTHER REVISION	$0
														Subtotal = $647,608

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $702,145 )
2024	2024	RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	65 BERGEN ST	NEWARK	NJ	07107	ESSEX	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	5/17/2024	NEW	$702,145
														Subtotal = $702,145

Grand Total All Awards = $1,983,223

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Understanding the Role of Mental Healthcare Access and Availability for Suicide Risk among Adolescents & Young Adults

Award Number: R01MD018679

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/17/2024

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 12/31/2027

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