# Behavioral Intervention Development Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · EMORY UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $788,735

## Abstract

Abstract. The overall goal of the Behavioral Intervention Development (BID) Core of the Emory Roybal
Center for Dementia Caregiving Mastery is to move intervention ideas aligned with the Center’s guiding
principles (consumer-based and context-specific) successfully through development stages I-III toward real
world implementation (Stages VI-V). Anchored in the Center’s Behavioral Intervention Advancement Process,
the BID Core will manage four activities designed to promote the “success” of behavioral interventions: the
filtering, selection, support, and advancement of compelling ideas. These processes are meant to support the
attainment of the Core’s three aims: Aim 1. Facilitate the submission of competitive behavioral intervention
trial applications and nominate, for NIA support, those with the greatest promise of enhancing context-specific
caregiving mastery through NIH Stage-appropriate, mechanism-driven intervention trial designs that are
deemed to be of high impact and significance. Aim 2. Provide oversight, mentoring, and consultation to
ensure the successful outcome and dissemination of Center-supported intervention trial projects. Aim 3.
Advance successfully completed clinical trials to secure support for further stages of intervention development
either through the Center or through other sources (e.g., NIH research mechanisms). The filtering process
encourages the floating of intervention ideas from researchers drawn from the Center’s networks and guides
the most promising through the Center’s Consult Service for the sharpening of ideas and the development of
trial proposals. The selection process involves Center leaders and Advisors (Expert, Local, and Consumer) in
an NIH-type review of submitted proposals to identify 2-4 trials (likely, but not exclusively, Stage I or II projects)
that can be advanced for support, pending NIA review and approval. The support of trial activities will involve
individual mentoring teams of Center leaders and Advisors meeting regularly (by phone or videoconference)
with each investigator and semi-annual meetings between the investigator and the Center leadership team and
some Advisors to monitor progress and provide guidance in addressing challenges that might occur in the
course of implementation. The fourth process, intervention advancement, speaks to the key goal of the Center:
ensuring that the intervention ideas in which the Center has invested move through stages of development and
become evidence-based interventions that can be widely disseminated. The advancement process begins at
the point of trial implementation with the development of an individualized plan for moving forward to the next
stage of development. Within this plan, each investigator and her/his mentoring team periodically engage with
Consult Service resources to conceptualize and re-conceptualize the strategy for a next-stage proposal. In its
first year, the BID Core will support the activities of two Stage Ib trials, one involving...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10874952
- **Project number:** 2P30AG064200-06
- **Recipient organization:** EMORY UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Fayron Recha Epps
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $788,735
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2019-09-15 → 2029-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10874952

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10874952, Behavioral Intervention Development Core (2P30AG064200-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10874952. Licensed CC0.

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