Research on Vulnerable Women, Children and Families

弱势妇女、儿童和家庭研究

• 批准号: 6858790
• 负责人: Janet Alma Deatrick
• 金额: $ 40.7万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-05-01 至 2008-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6858790
• 关键词: Research; Vulnerable; Women; Children; Families

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is for the competitive renewal of the Institutional National Research Service Award at the University of Pennsylvania to continue and expand a predoctoral and postdoctoral research training program. We will build on our successes from the first award period which include: 1) successful recruitment of minority researchers (44% of our predoctoral fellows and 40% of our postdoctoral fellows are minority researchers); 2) success in filling all positions; 3) establishment of interdisciplinary teams to support fellow research; 4) education of fellows that has resulted in research to improve the health of vulnerable populations, dissemination of this research and extramural funding of this research. In this application, we are refining our focus and concentrating on research training on the most vulnerable populations, minorities who experience well-documented health disparities. We will train nurse scientists to study disparities related to access, culturally influenced health behaviors, utilization, and funding of appropriate care, as well as disparities related to perceptions of difficult client-provider relationships. Our goal is to prepare nurse scientists to conduct culturally competent research designed to improve health and thus to decrease health disparities in vulnerable populations. Our broad conceptualization of health disparities of vulnerable populations is consistent with the research of the faculty for this proposed training program. Our faculty has pioneered unique approaches to the study of vulnerable populations at risk for health disparities and has been very successful in recruiting minority nurse researchers in the first five years of funding for this training grant. The proposed focus on health disparities among the most vulnerable allows for a rich interaction among the trainees and faculty studying health disparities within a broad range of research specialties. The predoctoral program provides beginning researchers with the knowledge and skills to conceptualize and implement clinical research designed to reduce health disparities among vulnerable women, children, and families. The predoctoral program builds on the current doctoral program by providing additional course work, focused seminars, mentorship, and experiences with researchers nationally and at Penn who are working to reduce health disparities, and provides research experience with ongoing studies. This is in addition to the concentration courses that provide the scientific background in the content area of each student's doctoral work and the required core courses and research courses that focus on contemporary nursing knowledge, research methods, and statistics. The purpose of the postdoctoral program is to facilitate independent research designed to reduce health disparities in vulnerable women, children and families; to develop the abilities of nurse trainees in specific content areas by engaging them in research with faculty; to encourage trainee publication; and to enable trainees to terminate the program with a fundable research proposal. Funds are requested for four new predoctoral and four new postdoctoral trainees each year, for two years of fellowship.

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案旨在为宾夕法尼亚大学的机构国家研究服务奖进行竞争性更新，以继续和扩大博士前和博士后研究培训计划。我们将在第一个奖励期取得成功的基础上，包括：1)成功招募少数民族研究人员（44%的博士前研究员和40%的博士后研究员是少数民族研究人员）；2)成功填补所有职位；3)建立跨学科团队，支持同事的研究；(4)对研究员进行教育，开展旨在改善弱势群体健康的研究，传播这项研究，并为这项研究提供校外资助。在这个应用程序中，我们正在改进我们的重点，并将重点放在对最脆弱人群的研究培训上，这些人群是有充分记录的健康差距的少数群体。我们将培训护士科学家，以研究与获取、受文化影响的健康行为、利用和适当护理资金有关的差异，以及与客户-提供者关系困难的看法有关的差异。我们的目标是让护士科学家做好准备，开展具有文化竞争力的研究，旨在改善健康状况，从而减少弱势群体的健康差距。我们对弱势群体健康差异的广泛概念与教师为这项拟议的培训计划进行的研究是一致的。我们的教师开创了独特的方法来研究面临健康差异风险的弱势群体，并在培训资助的前五年非常成功地招募了少数民族护士研究人员。建议将重点放在最弱势群体之间的健康差异上，这使得在广泛的研究专业范围内研究健康差异的受训者和教员之间进行丰富的互动。博士预科课程为初级研究人员提供了概念化和实施临床研究的知识和技能，旨在减少弱势妇女、儿童和家庭之间的健康差距。