Mentoring Diverse Students in Health Disparities Research

指导不同学生进行健康差异研究

• 批准号: 8477970
• 负责人: JOHN P. ELDER
• 金额: $ 34.61万
• 依托单位: SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-14 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8477970
• 关键词: Academia; Acculturation; Address; Advisory Committees; African American; Alaska Native; American; American Indians; Attention; Awareness; Behavioral; California; Caring; Chronic Disease; Communities; Community Health; Discrimination; Education; Ensure; Face; Faculty; Feedback; Financial Support; Generations; Goals; Growth; Hawaiian population; Health; Health Services Accessibility; Heterogeneity; Hispanics; Home environment; Individual; Institutes; Institution; Internships; Knowledge; Latino; Learning; Master of Public Health; Medical Research; Mentors; Methods; Mexican Americans; Minority; Minority Groups; Minority-Serving Institution; Participant; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Risk Factors; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Scientist; Series; Site; Social support; Socioeconomic Status; Students; Subgroup; Time; Training; Training Programs; Underserved Population; United States; Universities; Writing; behavioral health; career; career development; cohort; college; disorder risk; experience; graduate student; health care quality; health disparity; improved; insight; meetings; member; minority health; next generation; programs; research and development; research study; skills; success; undergraduate student; university student

Project Summary Given the heterogeneity of factors such as culture, acculturation, and socioeconomic status, there is a need for additional research on health disparities and shared protective and risk factors associated with chronic diseases specific to minority subgroups. However, there is an under-representation of minority researchers, scientists and university faculty in the US, which contributes to a limitation in insight among scientists seeking to understand and reverse the negative health disparities experienced by minority communities. It is thus crucial to train and develop minority students to conduct research that will reduce health disparities and at the same time provide students with opportunities to advance their skills in research, academics, and career pursuits to continue to contribute to reducing health disparities. As more minority students and other students underrepresented in research develop the skills to become researchers, there will be greater potential to diversify the workforce and promote culturally sensitive research that encourages the continued inclusion and participation of diverse groups in research studies. The proposed training program, entitled, "Mentoring Diverse Students in Health Disparities Research," will bring researchers accomplished in minority community health research together with undergraduate and graduate students to optimize their chances of research, academic and career success and advancement and prepare students to become the next generation of researchers who will be addressing health disparities. To advance the academic or career development of students, the proposed team will offer a Training and Mentoring Program (TMP) involving a series of educational trainings and mentoring by expert researchers, internship participation in community research, and special research projects focused on minority health and health disparities research. Two cohorts of twenty SDSU students each (30 undergraduate and 10 public health master's level graduate students total) who are underrepresented in health disparities research will participate in the two-year TMP. The ultimate goal of the program is to equip the students with the necessary research skills necessary to pursue higher level involvement in an academic or other career pursuit that contributes to reducing health disparities. The proposed TMP will be evaluated regularly to determine the overall relevance and value of the methods employed. Student and mentor feedback will be used to refine the program to best meet the needs of the participants. Further, portions of the program will be disseminated at its conclusion to allow others who are not able to attend to develop productive minority health research skills using aspects of the training.

项目摘要 考虑到文化、文化适应和社会经济地位等因素的异质性，存在着 需要对健康差距以及与以下方面相关的共同保护和风险因素进行更多研究 少数群体特有的慢性病。然而，少数民族代表不足。 美国的研究人员、科学家和大学教职员工，这导致了对 寻求了解和扭转少数民族经历的负面健康差距的科学家 社区。因此，培训和发展少数民族学生进行将降低健康的研究是至关重要的 差异，同时为学生提供提高研究技能的机会， 学术和职业追求继续为缩小健康差距作出贡献。作为更多的少数族裔 学生和其他在研究中代表性不足的学生将发展成为研究人员的技能， 更大的潜力，使劳动力多样化，并促进文化敏感的研究，鼓励 继续纳入和参与不同群体的研究。 拟议的培训计划名为“在健康差异研究中指导不同的学生”，将 把在少数族裔社区卫生研究方面有成就的研究人员与本科生和 研究生优化他们的研究、学术和职业成功和晋升的机会 让学生做好准备，成为下一代研究人员，他们将解决健康差距问题。至 促进学生的学业或职业发展，建议的团队将提供培训和 指导计划(TMP)，包括一系列教育培训和专家研究人员的指导， 实习参与社区研究，以及侧重于少数群体健康和 健康差距研究。两个队列，每组20名SDSU学生(30名本科生和10名公众 健康硕士水平研究生总数)在健康差距研究中代表性不足的人将 参加为期两年的TMP。 该计划的最终目标是让学生具备必要的研究技能，以便 追求更高层次的学术或其他有助于降低健康的职业追求 差距。将定期对拟议的TMP进行评估，以确定 方法采用问卷调查法。学生和导师的反馈将用于改进计划，以最大限度地满足 参赛者。此外，该计划的部分内容将在结束时传播，以允许其他人 不能利用培训的各个方面来发展富有成效的少数民族卫生研究技能。