Patient Oriented Research and Mentorship in Childhood Obesity Disparities

以患者为中心的儿童肥胖差异研究和指导

• 批准号: 8938732
• 负责人: Elsie Mireya Taveras Benavidez
• 金额: $ 16.01万
• 依托单位: MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-28 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8938732
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 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite recent progress in obesity prevention, the prevalence of childhood obesity remains at historically high levels. Racial and ethnic minorities and children from disadvantaged backgrounds suffer a disproportionate share of the national obesity burden and these disparities emerge as early as the first two years of life. Many factors contribute to the intractability of obesity but promising approaches for prevention and reduction of related health disparities are emerging including cross-sector strategies that support changes at the individual, family, and systems-levels and which begin in the earliest stages of life. The overall goals of this K24 application are to provide Dr. Elsie Taveras with protected time to perform research to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity particularly among racial and ethnic minorities and those from disadvantaged backgrounds and to train students, fellows, and junior faculty who wish to perform patient-oriented outcomes research in childhood obesity. Dr. Taveras is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, and a Pediatrician at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children. She leads several large patient-oriented research studies including an epidemiologic study examining early life origins of childhood obesity disparities; a whole-of-community intervention to prevent obesity among disadvantaged children ages 2-12 years; and a clinical-community intervention to reduce obesity among school-age children. Dr. Taveras has already successfully served as a research mentor to more than a dozen MD and PhD candidates and clinicians in training. This K24 award would come at a critical time in Dr. Taveras's career as it will allow her to heighten research productivity in the area of childhood obesity disparities and help foster the careers of junior childhood obesity scientists through her mentorship. The proposed scientific aims of this K24 application will serve to strengthen Dr. Taveras's ability to provide mentorship to junior investigators in patient-oriented research, with an emphasis on: (a) understanding the early, contextual roots of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in obesity; (b) attaining broad insights into effective cross-sector strategies for preventing obesity in early life; and (c) translating observational epidemiology int interventions to reduce early life obesity risk factors.

 描述(申请人提供)：尽管最近在预防肥胖症方面取得了进展，但儿童肥胖症的流行率仍处于历史高位。种族和族裔少数群体以及处境不利的儿童在全国肥胖负担中所占比例不成比例，这些差异早在出生后头两年就出现了。造成肥胖症棘手的因素很多，但预防和减少相关健康差距的有希望的方法正在出现，包括跨部门战略，支持在个人、家庭和系统层面上的变化，并从生命的最早阶段开始。这项K24应用程序的总体目标是为Elsie Tiveras博士提供有保护的时间来进行研究，以降低儿童肥胖症的流行率，特别是在种族和少数民族以及来自弱势背景的人中，并培训希望在儿童肥胖症方面进行以患者为导向的结果研究的学生、研究员和初级教员。塔维拉斯博士是哈佛医学院儿科副教授、哈佛公共卫生学院营养学副教授和马萨诸塞州儿童综合医院的儿科医生。她领导了几项以患者为导向的大型研究，包括一项探讨儿童肥胖差异早期生活根源的流行病学研究；一项预防2-12岁弱势儿童肥胖的全社区干预；以及一项减少学龄儿童肥胖的临床社区干预。塔维拉斯博士已经成功地担任了十多名正在接受培训的医学博士候选人和临床医生的研究导师。这一K24奖项将在塔维拉斯博士职业生涯的关键时刻颁发，因为这将使她能够提高儿童肥胖症差异领域的研究效率，并通过她的指导帮助促进初级儿童肥胖症科学家的职业生涯。这项K24应用的拟议科学目标将有助于加强塔维拉斯博士在以患者为导向的研究中为初级研究人员提供指导的能力，重点是：(A)了解肥胖症中种族/民族和社会经济差异的早期背景根源；(B)对有效的跨部门预防早期肥胖症的战略获得广泛的见解；以及(C)将观察性流行病学转化为预防早期肥胖症的干预措施。