Biobehavioral Nursing Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：华盛顿大学（UW）是独一无二的，拥有一支护理和跨学科科学家队伍，他们继续开拓独特的方法，专注于个人和系统层面的生物行为健康结果研究。在其第一个10年，生物行为护理研究培训计划（BNRTP）提供了24个博士前和14个博士后学员的研究培训，并增加了新的科学家熟练的生物行为理论和方法的数量。我们现在要求更新和延长目前的培训工作，以继续1）扩大个人脆弱性和整个生命周期的环境风险之间的生物行为界面的知识; 2）整合生物和行为仪器以及最先进的技术，用于研究个人脆弱性与环境风险之间的交易，以促进不良健康反应，疾病，3）扩大跨学科和多学科的合作努力，以测试旨在管理生物行为脆弱性和环境风险的干预措施，以预防疾病、损伤和功能性残疾或使其恶化。该计划的具体目标将通过学员参与必修和选修课程的工作，研究研讨会，指导跨学科的研究居住，正在进行的教师研究，区域和国家会议，并与教师合作撰写项目来实现。该更新申请要求继续资助一个机构培训计划，每年为6名博士前和3名博士后学员提供至少两年的支持，以继续增加掌握生物行为健康理论和方法的护理科学家的数量。威斯康星大学护理学院在丰富的环境中具有良好的战略地位，促进了强有力的跨学科合作，使我们能够进一步加强生物行为健康结果的跨学科研究。 相关性：行为、社会和生物过程在维持健康、导致所有主要死亡来源以及维持占美国医疗保健支出大部分的主要慢性疾病方面相互作用。这些过程的整合对于减少不健康的行为和保持积极的健康结果至关重要，随着时间的推移，在人群和环境中，以改善国家的健康。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Washington (UW) is unique in having a cadre of nursing and interdisciplinary scientists who continue to pioneer unique approaches to biobehavioral health outcomes research focused on both individual and system levels. In its first 10 years, the Biobehavioral Nursing Research Training Program (BNRTP) has provided research training for 24 predoctoral and 14 postdoctoral trainees and increased the number of new scientists skilled in biobehavioral theory and methodology. We now request a renewal and extension of the current training effort to continue 1) expanding knowledge of the biobehavioral interface between individual vulnerabilities and environmental risks throughout the lifespan; 2) integrating biological and behavioral instrumentation and state of the art technologies for studying transactions between individual vulnerabilities and environmental risks for the development or progression of adverse health responses, disease, and disability; and 3) expanding inter- and multidisciplinary and collaborative efforts to test interventions aimed at managing biobehavioral vulnerabilities and environmental risks in the prevention or progression of disease, impairment and functional disability. Specific objectives of the program will be achieved through trainee participation in required and elective course work, research seminars, a mentored interdisciplinary research residency, ongoing faculty research, regional and national conferences, and in collaboration on writing projects with faculty. This renewal application requests continued funding for an institutional training program to provide at least two years of support for six pre doctoral and three post doctoral trainees each year to continue to increase the number of nursing scientists skilled in biobehavioral health theory and methodology. The UW School of Nursing is well positioned strategically within a rich environment that fosters strong interdisciplinary collaborations and enables us to further enhance the interdisciplinary study of biobehavioral health outcomes. RELEVANCE: Behavioral, social and biological processes interact in maintaining health, in causing all of the leading sources of death, and in sustaining major chronic illnesses that account for most of health care spending in the United States. Integration of these processes is critical to reducing unhealthy behaviors and maintaining positive health outcomes over time, across populations, and settings to improve the health of the nation.