Summer Training Program in Integrative Methods for Mental and Physical Health

总结 这个R25应用程序的目标是提供一个最先进的，跨学科的方法培训计划， 提高早期职业科学家的技能，以调查心理和身体健康的交叉点。心理 疾病和心理困扰影响的发展，预后，过程，和自我管理， 医学发病率的主要原因（例如，糖尿病、心脏病、癌症）。尽管存在这种内在联系， 在研究、临床护理和科学培训中，精神和身体健康往往被孤立起来。这种缺乏 整合导致科学知识增长的效率低下，并助长了一种零敲碎打的方法， 不能满足同时患有精神和身体健康状况的人的需要。尽管 需要更全面的研究培训方法，目前没有NIH资助的项目 重点是建立关于心理和身体健康交叉点的方法学专门知识。在 此外，很少有培训机会旨在解决调查所需的方法学技能， 健康差距。心理和身体健康差异的综合方法（I-MEHD） 暑期培训计划将培养多学科早期职业科学家的研究技能 关于精神和身体健康的交叉点，注意这种交叉点如何有助于少数群体 健康和健康差距。I-MEHD包括一个为期4天的住宿暑期学院，与12个月的科学指导相结合，帮助学员深入了解概念模型，研究 设计、招聘策略、数据收集需求、测量工具、统计模型，以及 传播方法，适合于对精神和心理的交叉点进行创新性研究， 身体健康我们预计I-MEHD将吸引三类学员：（一）行为/社会科学家 学习心理健康谁有兴趣学习如何结合和分析生物/临床 （二）有兴趣学习如何评估精神障碍的临床/保健服务研究人员， 相关的行为/心理结构;（iii）少数民族健康研究人员谁想要雇用更多的 全面的方法来研究健康。I-MEHD的成功将通过评估学员来评估 技能发展、研究绩效和可持续能力建设。领导核心（Mezuk， 杰克逊，考德威尔和泰勒）的I-MEHD有一个既定的记录，培训初级调查员， 特别是代表性不足的少数民族科学家，通过他们的领导几个中心为基础的教育 密歇根大学的课程。I-MEHD将从我们几十年的经验中吸取教训 成功地培训了年轻的科学家，广泛的机构资源库，以及一个国家网络， 专家顾问在一个集中的夏季计划，重点是建立必要的科学技能， 解决整个生命周期中心理和身体健康的复杂交叉点。

Summary The goal of this R25 application is to provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary methods training program to enhance the skills of early-career scientists to investigate the intersection of mental and physical health. Mental disorders and psychological distress influence the development, prognosis, course, and self-management of leading causes of medical morbidity (e.g., diabetes, heart disease, cancer). Despite this intrinsic linkage, mental and physical health are often siloed in research, clinical care, and scientific training. This lack of integration causes inefficiencies in the growth of scientific knowledge and fosters a piecemeal approach to health that fails to meet the needs of persons with co-occurring mental and physical health conditions. Despite the need for a more comprehensive approach to research training, currently there are no NIH-funded programs focused on building methodological expertise regarding the intersection of mental and physical health. In addition, there are few training opportunities designed to address the methodologic skills needed to investigate health disparities. The proposed Integrative Methods in Mental and Physical Health Disparities (I-MEHD) Summer Training Program will develop the research skills of multidisciplinary cohorts of early-career scientists on the intersection of mental and physical health, with attention to how this intersection contributes to minority health and health disparities. I-MEHD consists of a 4-day residential summer institute which is paired with 12-months of scientific mentoring to help trainees develop a deep understanding of the conceptual models, study designs, recruitment strategies, data collection needs, measurement tools, statistical models, and dissemination approaches appropriate for conducting innovative research on the intersection of mental and physical health. We anticipate I-MEHD will attract three types of trainees: (i) Behavioral/social scientists studying mental health who are interested in learning how to incorporate and analyze biological/clinical measures; (ii) Clinical/health services researchers interested in learning how to assess mental disorders and related behavioral/psychological constructs; and (iii) Minority health researchers who want to employ a more comprehensive approach to studying health. The success of I-MEHD will be evaluated by assessing trainee skills development, research performance, and sustainable capacity building. The Leadership Core (Mezuk, Jackson, Caldwell and Taylor) of I-MEHD has an established track record of training junior investigators, particularly under-represented minority scientists, through their leadership of several Center-based education programs at the University of Michigan. I-MEHD will apply the lessons-learned from our decades of experience successfully training junior scientists, an extensive pool of Institutional Resources, and a National Network of Expert Consultants in a focused summer program centered on building the scientific skills necessary to address the complex intersection of mental and physical health over the lifespan.