University of Florida Resource Center for Minority Aging Research

项目总结 慢性疼痛可以说是美国最普遍和最昂贵的公共卫生问题 在美国，残疾人是全世界残疾的主要原因。虽然疼痛在整个过程中影响着个人 寿命，老年人受到的影响不成比例，慢性疼痛和 与疼痛相关的残疾。令人惊讶的是，关于年龄背后的生物心理社会机制的知识- 相关的疼痛增加仍然相当有限，因此，需要更多的研究来阐明社会和 老年人的行为对疼痛和残疾的贡献。在这一领域取得进展的一个关键障碍 研究人员的可获得性有限，他们在以后的研究中接受了适当的跨学科培训 生活中的痛苦和残疾。在强有力的机构支持下，佛罗里达大学(UF)资源中心 将建立少数民族老龄化研究(RCMAR)来解决这些科学和劳动力发展问题 需要。UF RCMAR的教育目标是提供出色的培训和职业发展 为来自代表性不足背景的有前途的调查人员提供机会。UF RCMAR的研究 目标是进行创新和有影响力的跨学科社会和行为研究，解决疼痛问题 老年人的残疾和残疾，包括晚年的健康差距、疼痛和残疾(例如种族和族裔 差异、性别和性别差异以及社会经济影响)。UF RCMAR将实现这些目标 目标通过四个核心的协同努力：行政核心(AC)、研究教育 它包括三个组成部分(REC)、一个分析核心(ANC)和一个社区联络和招募核心(CLRC)。在……里面 此外，UF RCMAR将受益于与其他UF实体的广泛合作，包括UF Pain 卓越研究和干预中心(PRICE)、UF老龄研究所(IOA)和UF临床和 翻译科学研究所(CTSI)。UF RCMAR拥有一支出色的跨学科核心团队 拥有与我们的主题相关的临床和翻译研究的专业知识的教职员工 老年人疼痛和残疾的生物心理社会贡献。为了实现其目标， UF RCMAR将招聘和留住来自无代表背景和 为他们提供优秀的指导和职业发展支持。通过其研究活动，UF RCMAR将产生关于社会和行为导致疼痛和 此外，还将开发和测试创新的干预措施，以减少晚年生活中的痛苦和残疾。

PROJECT SUMMARY Chronic pain conditions represent arguably the most prevalent and costly public health problem in the United States, and they are the leading cause of disability worldwide. While pain affects individuals throughout the lifespan, older adults are disproportionately impacted and are at particularly increased risk for chronic pain and pain-related disability. Surprisingly, knowledge regarding the biopsychosocial mechanisms underlying age- related increases in pain remains quite limited, therefore, increased research is needed to elucidate social and behavioral contributions to pain and disability among older adults. A critical barrier to progress in this area of research is the limited availability of investigators with appropriate interdisciplinary training in addressing later life pain and disability. With strong institutional support, the University of Florida (UF) Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) will be established to address these scientific and workforce development needs. The UF RCMAR has an educational objective to provide outstanding training and career development opportunities to promising investigators from underrepresented backgrounds. The UF RCMAR's research objective is to conduct innovative and impactful transdisciplinary social and behavioral research addressing pain and disability among older adults, including health disparities in later life pain and disability (e.g. racial and ethnic differences, sex and gender differences, and socioeconomic influences). The UF RCMAR will accomplish these objectives through the synergistic efforts of four Cores: an Administrative Core (AC), a Research Education Component (REC), an Analysis Core (AnC), and a Community Liaison and Recruitment Core (CLRC). In addition, the UF RCMAR will benefit from extensive collaborations with other UF entities, including The UF Pain Research & Intervention Center of Excellence (PRICE), the UF Institute on Aging (IOA), and the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). The UF RCMAR boasts an outstanding interdisciplinary group of Core Faculty with expertise spanning the spectrum of clinical and translational research related to our theme of biopsychosocial contributions to pain and disability among older adults. In order to accomplish its objectives, the UF RCMAR will recruit and retain outstanding early stage investigators from unrepresented backgrounds and provide them with excellent mentoring and career development support. Through its research activities, the UF RCMAR will produce novel and important information regarding social and behavioral contributors to pain and disability in older adults, and will develop and test innovative interventions to reduce later life pain and disability.