NIMH/M-RISP: Advancing Research in Puerto Rico

描述（由申请人提供）：此竞争性更新申请要求继续支持波多黎各大学里约热内卢Piedras校区的NIMH M-RISP计划（uprp - rp）。该计划最初为期三年（1992 - 1995年），后来为一个完整的五年周期（1995 - 1995年），包括五个单独的研究项目和一个基础设施核心。在这个申请中，三个单独的项目和一个机构核心被提议继续发展这个项目。M-RISP计划的总体目标是促进UPR-RP在精神健康和艾滋病方面的高质量和严谨研究的发展。我们希望通过以下方式实现这一目标：(1)让教师参与开展试点工作，从而获得有关心理健康和艾滋病毒/艾滋病（MHA）问题的竞争性研究资助，特别是干预措施和结果研究；(2)增加研究生和本科生对MHA研究的参与；(3)支持参与MHA研究的教师的研究开发活动；(4)改善和加强进行医管局研究的机构基础设施。该计划的基本原理是基于需要建立一个平行的支持结构，以支持少数民族机构的少数民族教师进行独立的MHA研究。建议的UPR-RP教师研究发展计划由三个部分组成。第一个组成部分是机构核心，通过教师研究活动、教师和学生发展活动以及方法统计核心的个人计划来支持研究基础设施的发展。第二个组成部分是教员个人研究项目。拟定3个iirp， 3名教员参与。17名参与者（14名附属教师和3名博士生）将参与MHA试点研究。第三部分涉及支持研究和研究开发活动的项目领导和评估。该计划的一个独特之处在于组织在当前的机构资源中有一个清晰、连贯和综合的职业发展计划，以支持MHA研究。教师在项目开始的那一刻就参与到他们的研究中来，并参与到一个个性化的发展计划中来，这个计划支持教师一步一步地朝着产生有竞争力的研究应用的目标迈进。本科生和研究生参与教师研究的发展是该计划的另一个方面，旨在增加为学生提供的MHA研究培训机会。来自UPR-RP（心理学、政治学和社会工作学院）和UPR-Mayagiiez校区的21名教师和6名博士生将参加拟议的MRISP。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This competing renewal application is requesting continued support for the NIMH M-RISP Program at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (UPR-RP). The program was funded for an initial three-year period (92-95) and later for a full five-year cycle (95-00) with five individual research projects and an infrastructure core. In this application three individual projects and an institutional core are proposed to continue developing this program. The general objective of M-RISP Program is to advance the growth of high quality and rigorous research on mental health and AIDS at the UPR-RP. We expect to accomplish this aim by (1) involving faculty members in conducting pilot work leading to a competitive research grant on mental health and HIV/AIDS (MHA) problems, especially interventions and outcome research; (2) increasing the participation of graduate and undergraduate students in MHA research, (3) supporting research development activities for faculty involved in MHA research; and (4) enhancing and strengthening the 'institutional infrastructure to conduct to MHA research. The rationale for the program is based on the need to develop a parallel structure of support to carry out independent MHA research by minority faculty at a minority institution. The proposed program for faculty research development at UPR-RP consists of three components. The first component is an Institutional Core to support research infrastructure development through individually based plans of faculty research activities, faculty and students development activities and methodological statistical core. The second component entails Individual Faculty Research Projects. Three IIRPs are proposed with three participating faculty members. Seventeen participants (fourteen affiliated faculty and three doctoral students) will be involved in MHA pilot research. The third component involves Program Leadership and Evaluation in support of research and research development activities. A unique feature of the program is the organization in the current institutional resources in a clear, coherent, and integrated plan of career development in support for MHA research. Faculty members are involved in carrying out their research for the moment the program begins and participate in a developmental individualized plan that supports the faculty member in step-by-step approach toward the objective of producing competitive research application. The participation of undergraduate and graduate students in the development of faculty research is another aspect of the program aimed at increasing the training opportunities offered to students in MHA research. Twenty-one faculty members and six doctoral students from UPR-RP (Psychology, Political Science and the School of Social Work) and the UPR-Mayagiiez Campus will participate in the proposed MRISP.