NIH – Research on biopsychosocial factors of social connectedness and isolation on health, wellbeing, illness, and recovery (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)

Purpose

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits research projects that seek to model the underlying mechanisms, processes, and trajectories of social relationships and how these factors affect outcomes in health, illness, recovery, and overall wellbeing.

Background

It is well-established that social ties can facilitate overall wellbeing, recovery from acute illness, and self-management of chronic conditions. Less well understood are the processes by which connection and isolation lead to positive or negative impacts on health, wellbeing, illness, or recovery. A more comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms, processes, and trajectories involved in social connectedness and isolation may identify novel targets to inform future intervention developments and to strengthen individual and group functions.

This FOA solicits research to better model the basic individual, social, and biobehavioral processes by which social connectedness and isolation have positive or negative impacts across the lifespan. It encourages projects that accelerate our understanding among relationships between various factors, including those that can be objectively measured (e.g., biomeasures, health records data, occurrence or length of relationship disruption) and those that require self-report and/or can be objectively observed and reported.

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https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-19-373.html

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