# Implementation and Implications of Sickle Cell Trait Screening in the NCAA

> **NIH NIH R01** · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $93,302

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
The proposed project seeks to better understand how parents are involved in the implementation of the NCAA
sickle cell trait screening process and their role in recommending risk-reducing health behaviors to their
children who are NCAA athletes. To explore these objectives, researchers will collect survey and semi-
structured interview data from NCAA athletes and their parents to determine the magnitude and nature of
parental influence on this process and whether parental factors predict differences in this involvement.
Additionally, this study will examine whether parents of NCAA athletes who have sickle cell trait provide
health-related guidance, the nature and rationale for these health messages, and the source of this information.
More broadly, the results will identify opportunities for health policymakers and researchers to adapt
educational efforts to account for the role of parents in genetic screening and health decision-making in
healthy, late adolescent populations.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10166358
- **Project number:** 3R01HG010364-02S1
- **Recipient organization:** DUKE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** CHARMAINE DAWN MARIE ROYAL
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $93,302
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-09-16 → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10166358

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10166358, Implementation and Implications of Sickle Cell Trait Screening in the NCAA (3R01HG010364-02S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10166358. Licensed CC0.

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