Research on Vulnerable Women, Children and Families

弱势妇女、儿童和家庭研究

• 批准号: 7026007
• 负责人: Janet Alma Deatrick
• 金额: $ 38.02万
• 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/7026007
• 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)：本提案旨在竞争性地更新宾夕法尼亚大学的机构国家研究服务奖，以继续并扩大博士后和博士后研究培训计划。我们将在第一个获奖期取得的成功基础上再接再厉，包括：1)成功招募少数族裔研究人员(我们44%的博士前研究员和40%的博士后研究员是少数族裔研究人员)；2)成功填补所有职位；3)建立跨学科团队支持研究员研究；4)教育研究员，促进改善弱势群体健康的研究，传播这项研究，并为这项研究提供外部资金。在这一应用中，我们正在细化我们的重点，并集中于针对最脆弱人群的研究培训，这些人群是经历了有据可查的健康差距的少数民族。我们将培训护士科学家，研究与可获得性、受文化影响的健康行为、适当护理的利用和资金有关的差异，以及与难以处理的客户-提供者关系的认知相关的差异。我们的目标是让护士科学家准备好进行具有文化能力的研究，旨在改善健康，从而减少弱势群体的健康差距。我们对弱势人群健康差距的广泛概念与教职员工对这一拟议培训计划的研究是一致的。我们的教员在研究处于健康差距风险中的弱势人群方面开创了独特的方法，并在为这项培训拨款提供资金的头五年里非常成功地招募了少数族裔护士研究人员。拟议的重点关注最弱势群体的健康差距，使研究各种研究专业的健康差距的受训者和教职员工之间能够进行丰富的互动。博士前课程为初级研究人员提供知识和技能，以概念化和实施临床研究，旨在减少脆弱妇女、儿童和家庭之间的健康差距。 博士前课程建立在当前博士课程的基础上，提供额外的课程工作、重点研讨会、指导以及与全国和宾夕法尼亚大学致力于减少健康差距的研究人员的经验，并提供正在进行的研究的研究经验。这不包括提供每个学生博士工作内容领域的科学背景的集中课程，以及专注于当代护理知识、研究方法和统计学的必修核心课程和研究课程。博士后计划的目的是促进旨在减少弱势妇女、儿童和家庭健康差距的独立研究；通过让护士实习生参与教师的研究来发展他们在特定内容领域的能力；鼓励实习生发表文章；并使实习生能够通过提供资金的研究提案终止该计划。每年需要为四名新的博士后学员和四名新的博士后学员申请资金，为期两年。