Northern Plains Center for Behavioral Research

描述（由申请人提供）： 北达科他州大学要求为一个27,883平方英尺的北方平原行为研究中心（NPCBR）提供资金。它将容纳研究和研究培训，重点是精神障碍和行为介导的疾病，这些疾病对改善美洲印第安人，农村老年穷人，拉丁美洲移民农场工人，妇女和儿童的健康状况至关重要。她们患抑郁症、自杀、其他严重精神疾病和身体疾病（如糖尿病和妊娠期疾病）的比例不成比例，这些疾病对行为治疗有反应。 为这些群体服务的行为健康研究人员极度短缺。我们建议对护理和心理学研究人员进行跨学科培训，以解决这些关键的未满足的国家公共卫生需求。 正在进行的和即将进行的公共卫生系统资助的研究包括长期接触农药对儿童的认知影响，以及营养在减轻糖尿病、老年人认知能力下降和美洲印第安妇女胆石症方面的作用。如果没有所要求的专门研究设施，我们的投资组合就不能扩大，也不能培训更多的美洲印第安人调查员。现有的设施是临时的、不符合标准的或根本没有。如果没有适当的空间，我们就无法帮助这些最脆弱的群体。 当地资金不到位。迫切需要采取行动，因为北方平原美洲印第安人的人口在今后15年内将翻一番;该地区正在迅速老龄化，而且比全国人口要老得多。 NPCBR提出了一个为这些群体服务的20年计划。它建立在我们的领导培训研究主管美国印第安护士和心理学家。为了继续为弱势群体提供服务，为全国预防儿童暴力委员会提供资金至关重要。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of North Dakota requests funds for a 27,883 square foot Northern Plains Center for Behavioral Research (NPCBR). It will house research and research training that focuses on mental disorders and behaviorally mediated diseases central to improving the health status of American Indians, the rural elderly poor, Latino migrant farmworkers, women, and children. They suffer disproportionate rates of depression, suicide, other serious mental disorders, and physical disorders such as diabetes and disorders of pregnancy that respond to behavioral treatment. There are extreme shortages of behavioral health researchers serving these groups. We propose the interdisciplinary training of researchers in nursing and psychology to address these critical unmet national public health needs. Active and pending PHS-funded studies include the cognitive effects of chronic pesticide exposure on children, and the role of nutrition in mitigating diabetes, cognitive decline among the elderly, and cholelithiasis among American Indian women. Our portfolio cannot be expanded and additional American Indian investigators trained without the specialized research facilities requested. Present facilities are improvised, substandard, or absent. We cannot assist these most vulnerable groups without appropriate space. Local funding is unavailable. Action is urgent since the Northern Plains American Indian population will double during the next 15 years; the region is rapidly aging and significantly older than the Nation as a whole. NPCBR proposes a 20-year plan to serve these groups. It builds on our leadership in training research-competent American Indian nurses and psychologists. To continue our service to vulnerable populations, funding the NPCBR is essential.