CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (Injury Center) announces several new awards funded under three extramural research cooperative agreement funding opportunity announcements. All projects are starting in fiscal year 2017:
- Research Using Linked Data to Understand Motor Vehicle Injury Among Older Adults.
(RFA-CE-17-001) - Development and Evaluation of Sports Concussion Prevention Strategies. (RFA-CE-17-002)
- Research on Prescription Opioid Use, Opioid Prescribing, and Associated Heroin Risk.
(RFA-CE-16-003)
Research Using Linked Data to Understand Motor Vehicle Injury Among
Older Adults
The Injury Center solicited investigator-initiated research that will help determine the utility of linked data for identifying risk factors, protective factors, and outcomes of motor vehicle crashes among older adults.
Awardee
Principle Investigators – Lawrence Joseph Cook and Timothy J. Kerns
Institution – University of Utah
Title – A Multi-State Integrated Data Approach to Analyzing Older Occupant Motor Vehicle Crash and Injury Risk Factors
Anticipated Funding Amount – $1,200,000 over 3 years
Principle Investigators – Lawrence Joseph Cook and Timothy J. Kerns
Institution – University of Utah
Title – A Multi-State Integrated Data Approach to Analyzing Older Occupant Motor Vehicle Crash and Injury Risk Factors
Anticipated Funding Amount – $1,200,000 over 3 years
This research will provide a better understanding of risk factors that contribute to increased risk of motor vehicle crashes and injury severity for older occupants. In order to integrate outcome data with pre-event data and event data from the crash report, the project will create a multi-year, multi-state probabilistically linked database of police crash data, hospital billing data, driver license files, toxicology data, and citation and conviction data. Information from across all time points of the injury event will provide a more complete picture of motor vehicle crashes among older adults.
Development and Evaluation of Sports Concussion Prevention Strategies
The Injury Center requested applications to develop and pilot test a new intervention, or rigorously evaluate an existing intervention, that aims to advance primary or secondary prevention of concussion among young athletes participating in youth sports programs.
Awardees
Principal Investigators – Zachary Y. Kerr and Johna K. Register-Mihalik
Institution – University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Title – Popular Opinion Leaders as a Sports Concussion Prevention Strategy in Middle Schools
Anticipated Funding Amount – $1,650,000 over 3 years
Principal Investigators – Zachary Y. Kerr and Johna K. Register-Mihalik
Institution – University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Title – Popular Opinion Leaders as a Sports Concussion Prevention Strategy in Middle Schools
Anticipated Funding Amount – $1,650,000 over 3 years
This research will develop and pilot a new intervention utilizing a Popular Opinion Leader model to prevent concussions in middle school sports. The study will include participants from middle school teams of five youth sports with a high incidence of concussion (football, boys’ soccer, girls’ soccer, boys’ basketball, and girls’ basketball). Findings will significantly advance our scientific knowledge on the impact of a local concussion prevention program on knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and health outcomes in youth sports.
Principal Investigators – Emily G. Kroshus and Sara P.D. Chrisman
Institution – Seattle Children’s Hospital
Title – One Team: Changing the Culture of Youth Sport
Anticipated Funding Amount – $1,650,000 over 3 years
Institution – Seattle Children’s Hospital
Title – One Team: Changing the Culture of Youth Sport
Anticipated Funding Amount – $1,650,000 over 3 years
This research will refine the One Team intervention, which uses pre-game safety huddles to bring together coaches, athletes, parents and referees to affirm: (a) values of sportsmanship (i.e., not engaging in dangerous and illegal collisions) and (b) the shared responsibility that no athlete play while concussed. The intervention will be implemented and evaluated with football and soccer teams in Seattle, WA and Statesboro, GA. This intervention aims to shift the culture of safety in youth sport and is appropriate for all youth sport stakeholders, including those in low resource and rural communities.
Research on Prescription Opioid Use, Opioid Prescribing, and Associated
Heroin Risk
The Injury Center requested applications that focus on identifying risk and protective factors that could enhance public health efforts to reduce morbidity and mortality related to heroin use. Proposals addressed the following research priorities: a) investigating the patterns of prescription opioid pain reliever (OPR) use and misuse, and initiation of heroin use during and/or after OPR misuse, or b) investigating the extent to which, and under which circumstances, OPR prescribing practices (e.g., high dose) and policies aimed at curbing inappropriate prescribing are related to heroin initiation and heroin overdoses.
Awardees
Principal Investigators – Amy S.B. Bohnert and Marc Larochelle
Institution – University of Michigan
Title – Heroin use and overdose following changes to individual-level opioid prescribing
Anticipated Funding Amount – $400,000 over 1 year
Principal Investigators – Amy S.B. Bohnert and Marc Larochelle
Institution – University of Michigan
Title – Heroin use and overdose following changes to individual-level opioid prescribing
Anticipated Funding Amount – $400,000 over 1 year
This research will examine whether patients who are tapered from high dosages of opioids are experiencing heroin-related overdoses in greater numbers than expected, and if so, why this transition to heroin use occurs. Researchers will analyze medical claims records for about 58 million Americans during 2001 to 2015, representing all 50 states. This information will be complemented by interviews with patients, including surgical and pain clinic patients and veterans. This study will aid efforts to identify those patients at greatest risk for heroin overdose.
Principal Investigators – Ingrid Binswanger and Jason Glanz
Institution – Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
Title – Assessing the Unintended Consequences of Restrictive Opioid Pain Reliever Policies
Anticipated Funding Amount – $400,000 over 1 year
Institution – Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
Title – Assessing the Unintended Consequences of Restrictive Opioid Pain Reliever Policies
Anticipated Funding Amount – $400,000 over 1 year
This research will conduct a large, longitudinal cohort study to examine the impact of opioid pain reliever (OPR) policies and prescribing practices on heroin use and overdose from 2012 to 2017. Researchers will analyze medical claims records from a large managed care organization and the state Medicaid program in Colorado, that together represent over 40% of the state’s population. This study will aid efforts to determine the impact of OPR prescribing policies on a diverse state population.
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