Variations of a group coaching intervention to support early-career biomedical researchers in Grant proposal development: a pragmatic, four-arm, group-randomized trial.
Variations of a group coaching intervention to support early-career biomedical researchers in Grant proposal development: a pragmatic, four-arm, group-randomized trial.
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10.1186/s12909-021-03093-w
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发表时间：
2022-01-10
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Okuyemi KS
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Weber-Main AM;Engler J;McGee R;Egger MJ;Jones HP;Wood CV;Boman K;Wu J;Langi AK;Okuyemi KS
资助的赠款提案为生物医学研究人员提供建立研究计划，支持受训人员和促进公共卫生所需的资源。使用美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）数据的研究发现，来自生物医学劳动力中代表性不足的群体的研究人员以不成比例的低比例获得NIH研究赠款。赠款写作培训计划是可用的，但缺乏严格的研究，以确定这种干预措施的有效性，并辨别其基本特征。这项2 × 2、非盲、分组随机研究比较了以NIH为中心的、资助写作、生物医学博士后研究员和早期职业教师的小组辅导干预的有效性。主要研究成果是提案提交率和供资率。来自美国各地的参与者被招募为二人组，在他们的内容领域有一名自选的科学顾问，然后被安排到由NIH资助的高级研究人员领导的教练组中，这些研究人员接受过干预措施的教练实践培训。目标招生是72个教练组，每组4-5对。各组被随机分配到四个干预组中的一个，这四个干预组在两个因素上有所不同：[1]辅导支持的持续时间（常规剂量= 5个月的小组辅导，而扩展剂量=常规剂量加上额外的18个月的一对一辅导）;和[2]让科学顾问参与常规剂量小组辅导过程的模式（非结构化参与与结构化参与）。干预的变化是由国家卫生研究院国家研究指导网络以前提供的程序。通过书面调查（基线和常规剂量开始后6、12、18和24个月）和半结构化访谈（常规剂量结束和24个月）收集参与者数据。定量分析将采用意向性治疗，采用双侧检验各因素的效应相等性。访谈记录的归纳，不断比较分析将被用来确定背景因素-与个人参与者，他们与教练干预的参与，以及他们的机构设置-影响干预的有效性。本研究的结果将提供一个经验基础，一个易于翻译的教练方法，以支持教师，研究员和其他研究学员，包括那些代表性不足的群体的基本赠款写作活动。在线版本包含补充材料，可通过10.1186/s12909-021-03093-w获得。
Funded grant proposals provide biomedical researchers with the resources needed to build their research programs, support trainees, and advance public health. Studies using National Institutes of Health (NIH) data have found that investigators from underrepresented groups in the biomedical workforce are awarded NIH research grants at disproportionately lower rates. Grant writing training initiatives are available, but there is a dearth of rigorous research to determine the effectiveness of such interventions and to discern their essential features. This 2 × 2, unblinded, group-randomized study compares the effectiveness of variations of an NIH-focused, grant writing, group coaching intervention for biomedical postdoctoral fellows and early-career faculty. The key study outcomes are proposal submission rates and funding rates. Participants, drawn from across the United States, are enrolled as dyads with a self-selected scientific advisor in their content area, then placed into coaching groups led by senior NIH-funded investigators who are trained in the intervention’s coaching practices. Target enrollment is 72 coaching groups of 4–5 dyads each. Groups are randomized to one of four intervention arms that differ on two factors: [1] duration of coaching support (regular dose = 5 months of group coaching, versus extended dose = regular dose plus an additional 18 months of one-on-one coaching); and [2] mode of engaging scientific advisors with the regular dose group coaching process (unstructured versus structured engagement). Intervention variations were informed by programs previously offered by the NIH National Research Mentoring Network. Participant data are collected via written surveys (baseline and 6, 12, 18, and 24 months after start of the regular dose) and semi-structured interviews (end of regular dose and 24 months). Quantitative analyses will be intention-to-treat, using a 2-sided test of equality of the effects of each factor. An inductive, constant comparison analysis of interview transcripts will be used to identify contextual factors -- associated with individual participants, their engagement with the coaching intervention, and their institutional setting – that influence intervention effectiveness. Results of this study will provide an empirical basis for a readily translatable coaching approach to supporting the essential grant writing activities of faculty, fellows, and other research trainees, including those from underrepresented groups. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-021-03093-w.
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影响因子：
7.7
作者：
Textor, Johannes;van der Zander, Benito;Ellison, George T. H.
通讯作者：
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作者：
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