Research and Training for Behavioral Oncology Interventions

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的目标是为从事行为肿瘤学研究的指导研究员提供支持。作为培训过程的一部分，他们将参与我正在进行的研究。虽然我有薪水支持我资助的研究，但我没有专门的空闲时间来指导。我有近30年的同行评审资助经验。然而，我坚信，在我职业生涯的这个阶段，我的指导活动应该与我的研究工作成正比，并允许我让所有的学生参与到我正在进行的研究和奖学金中。我目前的研究重点是癌症的二级预防以及在幸存者方面的持续研究奖学金。通过加强癌症预防和筛查行为，可以大大降低癌症的发病率和死亡率。此外，对于那些被诊断患有癌症的人来说，疾病引起的症状和治疗持续一生，需要研究来识别和干预，以便我们的癌症幸存者和他们的家人能够处理症状并享受更好的生活质量。我们需要中级和高级教师的研究，并将新学员纳入正在进行的研究中，以促进知识的建立并将这些知识转化为实践。尽管过去二十年在早期发现乳腺癌和结肠癌方面取得了巨大进步，但仍有许多工作要做。我目前的研究测试了一种量身定制的互动干预，以增加未坚持这些筛查的女性患乳腺癌和结肠癌的几率。未来的研究将以目前的研究为基础，在乳腺癌和结肠直肠癌筛查中加入宫颈癌筛查。今天的卫生保健提供者面临的挑战是，在治疗急性和慢性疾病的同时，鼓励预防保健和早期发现行为。虽然预防性保健必须与个人的健康状况相联系，但增加筛查的干预措施可以在通常针对医疗问题的临床就诊期间进行，而无需花费额外的时间。这个申请的目的是为了获得专门的支持，指导新的行为肿瘤学研究者，包括博士后和初级教师，通过将他们整合到我的研究项目中，该项目嵌入在印第安纳大学丰富的资源中。学员将能够通过参与我资助的研究获得有关行为肿瘤学研究试验的知识。他们也会参与到我的研究计划中来。总之，在我的职业生涯中，我正处于一个完美的时机，可以利用这个机会，让学员们更多地参与到积极的、正在进行的研究项目中。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this proposal is to provide support for mentoring fellows that are pursing research careers in behavioral oncology. As part of their training process, they will be involved in my ongoing research. Although I have salary support for my funded research, I do not have dedicated release time for mentoring. I have almost 30 years of peer reviewed funding experience. However, I strongly believe that at this time in my career, my mentoring activities should be proportional to my research work and allow me to involve all mentees in my ongoing research and scholarship. My current research focus is secondary prevention of cancer as well as continuing research scholarship in survivorship. Cancer morbidity and mortality could be greatly reduced by increasing cancer prevention and screening behaviors. Additionally, for those diagnosed with cancer, symptoms caused by the disease and treatment last a lifetime requiring research to identify and intervene so that our cancer survivors and their families can deal with symptoms and enjoy better quality of life. We need both research from mid-level and senior faculty with inclusion of new mentees into ongoing research to facilitate building knowledge and translating this knowledge into practice. Although the last two decades have shown tremendous improvement in finding both breast and colon cancer early, much work remains. My current research tests a tailored interactive intervention to increase breast and colon cancer in women non-adherent to these screenings. Future research will build on the current research by adding cervical cancer screening to breast and colorectal screening. Today's health care providers are challenged to encourage preventive care and early detection behaviors at the same time they are treating acute and chronic illnesses. Although preventive care must be linked to the individual's health care profile, Interventions to increase screening can be handled without taking additional time during clinical visits that are usually directed toward medical issues. The purpose of this application is to obtai dedicated support for mentoring new behavioral oncology investigators including pre and post-doctoral and junior faculty by integrating them into my research program that is embedded within the rich resources available at Indiana University. Mentees will be able to acquire knowledge about behavioral oncology research trials by participating in my funded research. They will also be involved as I continue to develop new proposals to further my research program. In summary, I am at the perfect time in my career to take advantage of this opportunity for increasing the involvement of mentees into active and ongoing programs of research.