Training in Chronic Illness Research in Florida and Abroad

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目旨在继续在迈阿密佛罗里达国际大学的少数民族国际研究培训项目。意大利罗马“La Sapienza”大学的护理教师与外国教师合作开展联合研究；哥伦比亚国立大学；精神病学研究所，伦敦，威滕/赫尔德克私立大学和德国比勒菲尔德大学；以及泰国孔敬大学。所有合作伙伴向少数民族本科生和研究生提供国际临床研究培训，重点关注慢性病患者和家属护理方面的差异（国家目标一、二，健康人，2010年）。学生在旅行前和毕业前都是学院研究团队的一员。他们在慢性病护理中的健康差异领域选择一个感兴趣的主题，并在国外与国际导师一起继续关注。教师合作伙伴计划与弱势家庭合作研究，为学生提供多元文化视角。学生参加研究预备课程，重点是研究设计和开展文化与健康、技能发展、道德、团队角色和健康差异研究中的特殊问题。在5年的资助期内，我们计划在护理和其他卫生专业招聘和指导40名本科生和10名研究生。一旦被选中，学生将在整个教育计划中得到指导。他们通过出版物和演讲积极参与并促进与国外合作伙伴的研究合作成果的传播，并为研究事业而努力。各种方法有助于实现这些目标：个人指导关系，指导国外和国际金融大学的研究行为，一个正在进行的研究活动小组，课程作业，指导撰写论文和准备专业演讲。最终，这些年轻的研究人员将对慢性病患者及其家庭的护理质量产生影响，这些患者和家庭生活在健康差异的人群中，这是基于他们深入的研究，并与擅长促进少数民族学生取得卓越成就的教师合作。这个项目是在一个环境中运作的，在这个环境中，学院83%的本科生和73%的研究生是种族多样性的，并且生活在佛罗里达州，那里的健康差距很大。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this project is to continue the Minority International Research Training program at Florida International University in Miami. Nursing faculty partner and collaborate in joint research with foreign faculty at the University "La Sapienza" Rome, Italy; National University of Colombia; Institute of Psychiatry, London, the Private University of Witten/Herdecke and Bielefeld University, Germany; and Khon Kaen University in Thailand. All partners provide minority undergraduate and graduate students with international clinical research training focused on disparities in the care of chronic illness patients and families (National Goals I, II, Healthy People 2010). Students are part of a faculty research team before their travel and until graduation. They choose a topic of interest within the area of health disparity in chronic illness care and continue the focus in a foreign country with an international mentor. The faculty partners plan collaborative research with vulnerable families to give students a multi-cultural perspective. Students take preparatory research courses focused on research design and conduct culture and health, skill development, ethics, team roles, and special issues in health disparities research. Over the 5 years of the grant, we plan to recruit and mentor 40 undergraduate and 10 graduate students in nursing and other health professions. Once selected, the students are mentored throughout their educational program. They participate actively and contribute to the dissemination of products of the research collaboration with the foreign partners through publications and presentations, and work toward a research career. A variety of methods help to achieve these goals: the individual mentoring relationship, guidance in the conduct of research both abroad and at FIU, an ongoing research activity group, course assignments, mentoring in writing papers and preparation for professional presentations. Ultimately, these young researchers will have an effect on the quality of care of chronically ill patients and their families in populations suffering health disparities, based on their intensive research exposure and work with faculty skilled in promoting excellence in minority students. This project functions in an environment where 83% of the undergraduate and 73% of the graduate students in the college are of ethnic diversity and live in Florida where health disparities are significant. RELEVANCE: This opportunity for mentored clinical international research training will fill a minority health researcher gap by providing nursing and health sciences students from minority populations with needed research skills in the area of chronic illness and the family. MHIRT students participate in research activities at home and abroad designed to promote a research career to address health disparities in minority populations and lead to new methods to improve culturally relevant care of underserved chronically ill patients and their families.