 June 26, 2020 Lanay M. Mudd, Ph.D. As health care and health interventions increasingly shift to remote forms of delivery, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) recently published PAR-20-154 to support Investigator Initiated Trials of Complementary and Integrative Interventions Delivered Remotely or via mHealth (R01 Clinical Trial Required). This blog post describes the unique features of this new funding opportunity announcement (FOA). What is a remotely delivered intervention? For the purposes of this FOA, a remotely delivered intervention is one with no in-person contact between participants and research staff. This means that all aspects of the research design, including recruitment, randomization, intervention delivery, data collection, and safety monitoring, must be done remotely. Remotely delivered and mobile health (mHealth) interventions may use mail, email, telephone, mobile apps, video, web-based platforms, wearable devices, and other modern technologies. Research on natural products interventions and mind and body approaches will be supported. |
