# 3/5 HEAL Consortium:  Establishing Innovative Approaches for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study

> **NIH NIH R34** · ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RES INST · 2020 · $153,047

## Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the mental and physical health of children and their parents. The
pandemic has also affected the ability to conduct in-person research at most institutions across the United
States. However, recent technological advances may allow many in-person assessments to transition to virtual
formats. There is an urgent need to develop virtual versions of currently used assessments of the home
environment and parent-child interactions, and to concurrently study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on
family relationships. The proposed project seeks to address this urgent need by building upon ongoing
research efforts among three sites from the NIH HEALthy Brains and Cognitive Development (HBCD) study:
Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. We will develop and test a virtual version of the HOME Inventory in 90 caregivers with infants
between 6-18 months of age. We will validate this virtual version by performing in-person HOME Inventory
assessments in 45 of these dyads. In all participants, we will use a standard questionnaire to assess COVID-
19 exposure and impact. Finally, we will examine associations between regional and temporal variations in
COVID-19 exposure and impact and dimensions of the HOME Inventory. The results of this study will be used
to finalize the development of a virtual HOME Inventory protocol that can be widely used in future studies,
including the HBCD Phase II study.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10214765
- **Project number:** 3R34DA050261-01S2
- **Recipient organization:** ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RES INST
- **Principal Investigator:** ASHLEY ACHESON
- **Activity code:** R34 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $153,047
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2019-09-30 → 2021-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10214765

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10214765, 3/5 HEAL Consortium:  Establishing Innovative Approaches for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (3R34DA050261-01S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10214765. Licensed CC0.

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