Description
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is seeking applications for research on how mind and body interventions improve whole person health via emotional well-being. The initiative will support rigorous and well-powered mechanistic research studies with strong preliminary data to understand the relationships between mind and body interventions, mechanisms of emotional well-being, and whole person health.
• The research should focus on mind and body interventions such as mindfulness meditation, yoga, acupuncture, massage, and other brain and/or body-based interventions.
• The studies should examine the effects of mind and body interventions on innovative mechanisms of emotional well-being as the primary outcome, and the associated relationship with the Whole Person Health Index as a secondary outcome.
• The funding will support an initial phase to establish feasibility benchmarks for the proposed mechanistic clinical trial(s), followed by a second phase to complete the full-scale trials contingent on successful completion of the initial phase milestones.