Prevention of Depression in Latino Parents

说明（申请人提供）：本申请是一项 科学家发展奖的新少数民族教师（K 01），这将使博士。 Cardemil继续发展他的研究纲领， 预防拉丁美洲人的抑郁症抑郁症是最常见的 一般人群中的主要精神疾病， 有证据表明，低收入种族/少数民族成员可能 尤其是在其发展的风险。开发和评估的研究 旨在预防低收入人群抑郁症发展的计划 少数种族/族裔可能特别有益。 博士Cardemil的培训目标是（1）拓宽他的概念知识， 研究抑郁症的预防和治疗;（2）加强对抑郁症患者的健康教育 对抑郁症的家庭和儿童评估和干预的经验， (4)提高他的方法技巧，以便有效地进行 大规模随机预防试验，（5）获得经验， 评估治疗师培训计划，（6）提高他的统计技能， 为了更有效地评估纵向结果数据，以及（7）改善 他的赠款和出版物写作技巧。 这些培训目标将通过以下途径实现：（1） 布朗大学医学院，（2）高质量的指导 由Ivan米勒博士、Ricardo Mufioz博士和罗纳德塞弗博士提供， 专业知识的组装顾问团队，（3）重点课程和临床 （4）拟开展的研究项目。 拟议的研究项目扩展了Cardemil博士的自然进展， 在NRSA F32奖学金的赞助下，目前的抑郁症预防工作。 F32项目是一个认知行为抑郁症预防计划， 低收入拉丁裔父母，将6个基于小组的干预措施与2个 基于家庭的干预措施：家庭应对技能方案。的 本申请的具体研究目的是（1）实施随机的 使用FCSP评估拉丁裔父母疗效的临床试验 访谈者和自我报告措施，（2）以探索的方式， 评估FCSP对子样本中家庭水平功能的影响 同时使用访谈者和自我报告测量的参与者中，（3）在一个 探索性的方式，评估FCSP对儿童的影响， 使用访谈者和自我报告措施对参与者进行二次抽样， (4)制定和评估治疗师培训计划， 提供FCSP。

Description (provided by applicant): This application is a request for a Scientist Development Award for New Minority Faculty (K01) that will enable Dr. Cardemil to continue to develop his programmatic line of research in the prevention of depression in Latinos. Depression is among the most prevalent of the major psychiatric disorders in the general population, and emerging evidence suggests that members of low-income racial/ethnic minorities may be particularly at-risk for its development. Research that develops and evaluates programs designed to prevent the development of depression in low-income racial/ethnic minorities may prove especially beneficial. Dr. Cardemil's training goals are to (1) broaden his conceptual knowledge in researching the prevention and treatment of depression, (2) enhance his experience with family- and child assessments and interventions for depression, (4) improve his methodological skills in order to effectively conduct large-scale randomized prevention trials, (5) acquire experience developing and evaluating a therapist-training program, (6) improve his statistical skills in order to more effectively evaluate longitudinal outcome data, and (7) improve his grant- and publication-writing skills. These training goals will be achieved through (1) the resources available at the Brown University Medical School, (2) the high quality of mentorship provided by Dr. Ivan Miller, Dr. Ricardo Mufioz, and Dr. Ronald Seifer, and the expertise of the assembled consultant team, (3) focused coursework and clinical experiences, and (4) the proposed research project. The proposed research project extends the natural progression of Dr. Cardemil's current depression prevention work under the auspices of a NRSA F32 fellowship. The F32 project is a cognitive-behavioral depression prevention program for low-income Latino parents that integrates 6 group-based interventions with 2 family-based interventions: the Family Coping Skills Program (FCSP). The specific research aims of this application are to (1) implement a randomized clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of the FCSP on Latino parents using both interviewer and self-report measures, (2) in an exploratory fashion, evaluate the effects of the FCSP on the family-level functioning in a subsample of the participants using both interviewer and self-report measures, (3) in an exploratory fashion, evaluate the effects of the FCSP on the children of a subsample of participants using both interviewer and self-report measures, and (4) develop and evaluate a therapist-training program for the efficacious delivery of the FCSP.