Building End-of-Life Science through Positive Human Strengths and Traits

通过积极的人类优势和特质建立临终科学

• 批准号: 7850228
• 负责人: Barbara Daly
• 金额: $ 58.46万
• 依托单位: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-30 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7850228
• 关键词: Address; Alternative Therapies; Area; Attention; Biological Sciences; Cardiovascular system; Caring; Characteristics; Chronic Disease; Collaborations; Commit; Communities; Discipline; Disease; Distress; Education and Outreach; Effectiveness; Emotional; Equilibrium; Evaluation; Faculty; Family; Fostering; Foundations; Homeostasis; Hormonal; Human; Individual; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Intervention; Investigation; Knowledge; Learning; Life; Life Experience; Link; Literature; Marshal; Measures; Mentorship; Mission; Modeling; Palliative Care; Patients; Perceived quality of life; Persons; Population; Problem Solving; Psychology; Quality of life; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; School Nursing; Science; Self Efficacy; Stimulus; Suggestion; Symptoms; Targeted Research; Testing; Work; base; clinical practice; coping; design; end of life; end of life care; experience; improved; innovation; neglect; optimism; organizational structure; patient population; positive emotional state; programs; psychologic; psychological distress; social; success; symptom management; trait

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes establishment of an interdisciplinary biomedical core focused on quality of life research for seriously ill people, including those who are at the end of life. The proposed biomedical core center, Building End-of-Life Science through Positive Human Strengths and Traits (BEST), is supported by a strong interdisciplinary group of researchers, clinicians, and academic leaders In quality of life of patients with advanced Illness and their families. The BEST Center will move the science of palliative care research into a new direction- a paradigm shift that will address the need for investigations of the positive psychological traits that have the greatest influence on an individual's capacity to tolerate and even grow despite the physical and emotional threat of serious illness. The aims of the BEST Center are : (1) establish a Biomedical Core Center (BEST), focused on the following specific targeted area of research: strategies assessing and building on human strengths (such as learned optimism, self-efficacy, social connectedness) in coping with and managing serious illness; (2) formalize and coordinate current informal collaborative relationships among faculty and Institutions in order to support research projects in the targeted area of research; and (3) recruit and support new faculty committed to investigations in the targeted area. In order to do this, the BEST Center will be organized into three cores: (a) the Executive Core; (b) the Outreach and Education Core; and (c) the Mentorship Core. This Center will augment and enhance the capacity of the School of Nursing to investigate the application of findings from positive psychology in the population of patients with serious and life-limiting illness focusing on improving the quality of life in all domains. In addition to creating an organizational structure to support this Initiative, we will recruit and hire three new faculty committed to developing programs of research targeting positive attributes and /or biologic correlates in this population. The BEST Center Is founded on the related research conducted by an interdisciplinary group of faculty from disciplines currently linked in an internal faculty collaborative. Building on this strong base, we will continue to foster strategic collaborations with community programs, clinical practice settings, and existing relationships across institutional levels to promote collaboration and to share research expertise and knowledge related to end-of-life science. A thorough evaluation of the activities and milestones will assist us to measure our success and promote the sustainability of the BEST Center.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请建议建立一个跨学科生物医学核心，重点关注重病患者（包括临终患者）的生活质量研究。拟议的生物医学核心中心“通过积极的人类优势和特质构建临终科学”(BEST) 得到了强大的跨学科研究人员、临床医生和学术领袖团队的支持，以提高晚期疾病患者及其家人的生活质量。 BEST 中心将把姑息治疗科学研究推向一个新的方向——一种范式转变，解决对积极心理特征的研究需求，这些特征对个人的耐受能力、甚至成长能力影响最大，尽管严重疾病的身体和情感威胁。 BEST中心的目标是：（1）建立生物医学核心中心（BEST），重点关注以下特定目标研究领域：评估和建立人类在应对和管理严重疾病方面的优势（例如习得的乐观、自我效能、社会联系）的策略； (2) 规范和协调教师和机构之间当前的非正式合作关系，以支持目标研究领域的研究项目； (3) 招募和支持致力于目标领域研究的新教师。为此，BEST 中心将分为三个核心： (a) 执行核心； (b) 外展和教育核心； (c) 指导核心。该中心将增强和增强护理学院的能力，以研究积极心理学的研究成果在患有严重和生命有限疾病的患者群体中的应用，重点是改善各个领域的生活质量。除了创建一个组织结构来支持该计划外，我们还将招募和聘用三名新教师，致力于开发针对该人群的积极属性和/或生物相关性的研究计划。 BEST 中心是建立在由跨学科教师小组进行的相关研究基础上的，这些教师来自目前内部教师协作中相关的学科。在此坚实的基础上，我们将继续促进与社区项目、临床实践环境以及跨机构层面的现有关系的战略合作，以促进合作并分享与临终科学相关的研究专业知识和知识。对活动和里程碑的全面评估将帮助我们衡量我们的成功并促进 BEST 中心的可持续性。