Self-Management Pilot/Feasibility and Biobehavioral Outcomes Core

发展循证策略以改善心肺疾病的自我管理 疾病需要研究人员进行科学合理、严谨的研究。量测 心血管和肺部疾病自我管理的生物行为结果对 进入这一研究领域的调查人员。肯塔基大学护理学院正在将规模扩大一倍 本科课程。资助增聘8名教职员工，他们的获释时间将达到50% 已经得到了董事会的批准。这些新成员，他们将成为早期的调查人员 在他们的研究生涯中，将在三年内被聘用。其中三名成员将于2007年秋季开始工作。在……里面 此外，我们有初级教员(Darlene Welsh和Msook Chung)和成熟的调查人员(Ann Peden 和Lynne Hall)，他们计划加入我们的心血管和肺部研究团队 (富心计划)。拟建的中心将非常适合帮助这些教职员工发展 心血管和肺部疾病自我管理研究项目。 为了满足现有和未来教职员工的需要，拟议的核心将协助项目 参与制定和进行旨在改善自我管理的试点/可行性研究的调查员 心血管和肺部疾病，包括生物行为结果的测量。建议，培训， 并将在研究设计以及测量和解释三种类型的 结果：1)证明干预措施有效性的生物行为变量(例如，知识， 心理状态、生理状态)，2)表明自我管理改善的生物行为变量 行为(例如，坚持、营养状况、生理状况)，以及3)生物行为 显示临床结果改善的变量(例如，生理状态、死亡率、发病率、 和生活质量)。

Development of evidence-based strategies to improve self-management of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases requires that investigators develop scientifically sound, rigorous research studies. Measuring biobehavioral outcomes of self-management of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases presents challenges to investigators entering this field of study. The University of Kentucky College of Nursing is doubling the size of the undergraduate program. Funding to hire eight additional faculty members who will have 50% release time for research has been approved by the Board of Regents. These new members, who will be investigators early in their research careers, will be hired over three years. Three of these members will start in the Fall of 2007. In addition, we have junior faculty (Darlene Welsh and Misook Chung) and established investigators (Ann Peden and Lynne Hall) on our faculty who are planning to join our cardiovascular and pulmonary research team (RICH Heart Program). The proposed Center will be ideally suited to assist these faculty members to develop programs of research in self-management of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. To meet the needs of current and future faculty members, the proposed Core will assist project investigators in the development and conduct of pilot/feasibility studies aimed at improving self-management of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases that include measurement of biobehavioral outcomes. Advice, training, and mentorship will be provided in research design as well as measurement and interpretation of three types of outcomes: 1) biobehavioral variables that demonstrate effectiveness of interventions (e.g., knowledge, psychological status, physiological status), 2) biobehavioral variables that demonstrate improvement in selfmanagement behaviors (e.g., adherence, nutritional status, physiological status), and 3) biobehavioral variables that demonstrate improvement in clinical outcomes (e.g., physiological status, mortality, morbidity, and quality of life).