Northern Plains Center for Behavioral Research

描述(由申请人提供)： 北达科他州大学要求为27,883平方英尺的北部平原行为研究中心(NPCBR)提供资金。它将提供研究和研究培训，重点是精神障碍和行为介导性疾病，这些疾病对于改善美国印第安人、农村老年穷人、拉美移民农场工人、妇女和儿童的健康状况至关重要。他们患有抑郁症、自杀、其他严重的精神障碍以及对行为治疗有反应的身体障碍，如糖尿病和妊娠障碍的比例不成比例。 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的研究人员进行跨学科培训，以解决这些关键的、未得到满足的国家公共卫生需求。 正在进行的和正在进行的由PHS资助的研究包括长期接触农药对儿童的认知影响，以及营养在缓解糖尿病、老年人认知能力下降和美国印第安人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，更多的美国印第安人调查人员也不能接受培训。现有的设施要么是临时搭建的，要么是不合格的，要么是没有的。如果没有适当的空间，我们无法帮助这些最脆弱的群体。 当地资金不可用。行动迫在眉睫，因为美国北部平原的印第安人人口将在未来15年内翻一番；该地区正在迅速老龄化，远远超过全国的整体年龄。 NPCBR提出了一项服务于这些群体的20年计划。它建立在我们在培训有研究能力的美国印第安人护士和心理学家方面的领导地位。为了继续为弱势群体提供服务，为全国人民权利公约提供资金是必不可少的。

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.