Parenting Practices After Youth Psychiatric Hospitalization
Official title: Parenting Practices Following Psychiatric Hospitalization of Suicidal Adolescents
Funded at Rhode Island Hospital · NIH-11292920 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This grant tests how parenting behaviors after a teen leaves psychiatric hospitalization affect the risk of self-injury thoughts and behaviors in the following month, with kids aged 12–17 and their families.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Rhode Island Hospital NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Providence, United States) |
| Project start | August 1, 2026 |
| Project end | April 30, 2031 |
| Funding year | 2026 |
| Award (this year) | $756,356 |
| NIH project number | 1R01MH132079-01A1 |
| Project ID | NIH-11292920 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Ideal candidates are youths aged 12–17 recently discharged from psychiatric hospitalization and their parents who can participate in mobile diary and interaction tasks.
✕Less likely to help
Families not available for follow-up or without access to mobile diary methods may not experience direct benefit.
What this research studies
The project follows 250 adolescents recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital and their parents to understand which daily parenting practices best support safety during the critical first month after discharge. It uses real-time mobile diaries, observed parent–teen interactions, and emotion-regulation measures to see how warmth, communication, monitoring, and safety Planning relate to SITB risk. Through a multi-method, longitudinal design, the study aims to identify modifiable parenting factors that could be targeted by interventions. Participants complete baseline surveys and participate in interaction tasks to capture day-to-day changes in parenting and adolescent outcomes.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, findings could inform practical post-discharge parenting strategies to reduce suicide risk in high-risk youths.
How similar studies have gone: Previous work highlights parenting as a protective factor, but this study adds real-time data and specific post-discharge practices, which is promising but still exploratory.
Where this research is happening
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Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Wolff, Jennifer Christine — Rhode Island Hospital
- Study coordinator: Wolff, Jennifer Christine
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About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page.