# Technology-Based Prevention for Adolescent Substance Use, Sexual Assault, and Sexual Risk in Primary Care

> **NIH NIH K23** · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $53,977

## Abstract

PROJECT ABSTRACT
The overarching goal of this Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) is to
provide Dr. Amanda Gilmore with the training and research activities needed to become an independent
investigator. Her program of research will focus on the development, testing, and dissemination of innovative,
technology-based prevention focused on adolescent substance use, sexual assault (SA), and sexual risk
behaviors (SRBs) in primary care settings. Substance use, sexual assault, and sexual risk behaviors are
common among adolescents. They occur concurrently and are interrelated, making integrated prevention
concerning these health risk behaviors imperative. Preventative visits in pediatric primary care settings are an
ideal location to implement brief, integrated prevention due to their potential for wide reach. This proposal
includes training activities to ensure that Dr. Gilmore achieves the following five new career goals: 1) Receive
training in integrated prevention for adolescents to become a prevention researcher focused on preventing
substance use, SA, and SRBs; 2) Receive training in implementing prevention-based clinical trials in primary
care settings using screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) models; 3) Enhance
statistical training in clinical trials and longitudinal analyses; 4) Enhance training in the use of innovative
technologies as a mode of delivering prevention programs; 5) Increase manuscript writing, grant writing, and
grant management skills; and 6) Enhance understanding of research ethics. The mentorship team includes
expert psychologists and pediatricians in the following areas of research: integrated prevention of adolescent
risk behavior and violence prevention (Self-Brown, Danielson), substance use SBIRT in pediatrics (Levy),
technology-based prevention programs for adolescents (Ruggiero), research within community pediatric
practice research networks (Wallis), longitudinal data analyses from clinical trials (Ramakrishnan), brief
interventions for opioid misuse and sexual risk behaviors (Cooper), and interventions for sexual minorities
(Kaysen). Dr. Gilmore will apply the skills acquired during the training activities to a research project focused
on the adaptation and integration of evidence-based prevention programs targeting adolescent substance use,
sexual assault, and sexual risk behaviors to a tablet-based prevention program for primary care. The research
project includes focus groups and expert input in the adaptation/integration phase, usability tests with both
adolescents and physicians within community pediatric clinics, and a feasibility study within community
pediatric clinics. The feasibility study will establish feasibility of conducting a larger randomized controlled trial
testing the efficacy of the newly integrated and adapted prevention program. Preliminary efficacy of the
prevention program will be examined, but determining feasibility is the primary go...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10254800
- **Project number:** 3K23DA042935-04S1
- **Recipient organization:** GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Amanda Katherine Gilmore
- **Activity code:** K23 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $53,977
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2019-07-17 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10254800

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10254800, Technology-Based Prevention for Adolescent Substance Use, Sexual Assault, and Sexual Risk in Primary Care (3K23DA042935-04S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10254800. Licensed CC0.

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