Training in Chronic Illness Research in Florida/Georgia and Abroad

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目的目的是继续在迈阿密的佛罗里达国际大学的少数民族国际研究培训计划。护理系与意大利“La Sapienza”大学、罗马、哥伦比亚国立大学、伦敦精神病学研究所、德国私立维滕/埃尔德克大学和比勒费尔德大学以及泰国孔敬大学的外国教师合作开展联合研究。所有合作伙伴都为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庭护理方面的差异（国家目标I，II，2010年健康人）。学生在旅行前和毕业前都是教师研究团队的一员。他们在慢性病护理的健康差异领域内选择感兴趣的主题，并在国际导师的指导下继续关注外国。教师合作伙伴计划与弱势家庭的合作研究，让学生一个多元文化的视角。学生参加预备研究课程，重点是研究设计和进行文化和健康，技能发展，道德，团队角色以及健康差异研究中的特殊问题。在5年的赠款，我们计划招募和指导40名本科生和10名研究生在护理和其他卫生专业。一旦被选中，学生将在整个教育计划中接受指导。他们积极参与并通过出版物和演示文稿促进与外国合作伙伴的研究合作产品的传播，并致力于研究事业。各种方法有助于实现这些目标：个人指导关系、指导在国外和金融情报室进行研究、持续的研究活动小组、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，这些患者及其家庭的健康状况存在差异，这是基于他们深入的研究接触，并与擅长促进少数民族学生卓越的教师合作。该项目的运作环境中，83%的本科生和73%的研究生在学院的种族多样性和生活在佛罗里达的健康差距是显着的。 相关性：这一指导临床国际研究培训的机会将填补少数民族健康研究人员的空白，为来自少数民族人口的护理和健康科学学生提供慢性病和家庭领域所需的研究技能。MHIRT学生参加国内外的研究活动，旨在促进研究事业，以解决少数民族人口的健康差距，并导致新的方法，以改善服务不足的慢性病患者及其家人的文化相关护理。

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.