The NIDCR will support R34 grants for the planning and design of clinical studies to test behavioral or social interventions related to its mission (for details, please see:
http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/Research/DER/bssrb.htm).
The R34 grant will support activities that include, but are not limited
to:
the development of the behavioral or social intervention manual and procedures for training interventionists; development of the clinical protocol that will guide a subsequent clinical trial; the tools for data management, participant safety and operational oversight; and other activities to prepare for a subsequent clinical trial.
R34 applications preparing for a behavioral or social intervention study may involve human subjects as part of small-scale testing of the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention(s), measures, methods, training approaches, etc.
However, the R34 planning grant is not meant to support efficacy testing of interventions.