Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01)

Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01)

Synopsis

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Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: PAR-07-259
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Dec 21, 2006
Creation Date: Dec 05, 2008
Original Closing Date for Applications: Multiple Receipt Dates - See Link to Full Announcement for details.
Current Closing Date for Applications: Multiple Receipt Dates - See Link to Full Announcement for details.
Archive Date: Jun 01, 2009
Funding Instrument Type: Grant

Category of Funding Activity: Education
Food and Nutrition
Health
Income Security and Social Services

Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s): 93.242 -- Mental Health Research Grants
93.361 -- Nursing Research
93.399 -- Cancer Control
93.837 -- Heart and Vascular Diseases Research
93.838 -- Lung Diseases Research
93.848 -- Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Research
93.865 -- Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research
93.866 -- Aging Research
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

Eligible Applicants
State governments
County governments
City or township governments
Special district governments
Independent school districts
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
For profit organizations other than small businesses
Small businesses
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Additional Information on Eligibility:
Foreign institutions are eligible to apply. Eligible agencies of the Federal Government can apply. Faith-based or community-based organizations can apply.

Agency Name
National Institutes of Health
Description
-Purpose. Diet and physical activity are lifestyle and behavioral factors that play a role in the etiology and prevention of many chronic diseases such as cancer and coronary heart disease. Both also play roles in preventing overweight/obesity and in maintaining weight loss. Therefore, diet and physical activity are assessed for both surveillance and epidemiologic/clinical research purposes. The measurement of usual dietary intake or physical activity over varying time periods or in the past, by necessity, has relied on self-report instruments. Such subjective reporting instruments are cognitively difficult for respondents, and are prone to considerable measurement errors that may vary among population subgroups and depend on the time frame considered and the characteristics of the respondents. -The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director (OD) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), are interested in promoting innovative research to enhance the quality of measurements of dietary intake and physical activity. Applications submitted under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) may include development of: novel assessment approaches and/or better methods to evaluate instruments assessment tools for culturally diverse populations across various age groups including older adults; improved technologies and/or applications of existing technologies; and/or statistical methods to assess or correct for measurement errors or biases. -Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the NIH Research Project Grant (R01) award mechanism and runs in parallel with an FOA of identical scientific scope, PAR-06-103, that solicits applications under the Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) award mechanism.

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Synopsis Modification History
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