Bidirectional Influences Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Funding Opportunity RFA-MH-23-115 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) focuses on understanding bidirectional relationships between social media use and adolescent mental health, psychiatric symptoms, and risk or resilience for psychopathology. For the purposes of this FOA, social media are defined as internet-based communication platforms and applications that enable interactions between users by sharing or consuming information. The FOA focuses on adolescents (broadly defined here as 10-20 years of age), who have increasing access to social media and greater autonomy in their use of digital platforms. No effectiveness/efficacy trials will be accepted.