PILOT AND FEASIBILITY PROGRAM

试点和可行性研究：项目总结 美国印第安人和阿拉斯加土著糖尿病翻译研究中心（CAIANDTR） 在糖尿病、相关疾病和健康不公平的交叉点上进行创新研究，重点关注 预防，治疗和整个生命周期的后果。为此，它资助试点和可行性 开发新方法的项目，以改善服务不足的美国印第安人和阿拉斯加人的健康 原住民（AI/AN）。这些投资为新兴的研究领域提供了种子，探索了新的方法， 寻求新的合作，可以发展成独立资助的研究或示范项目。 初步研究的试点数据对于从国家研究所获得大量资金也至关重要 美国国立卫生研究院（NIH），行业合作伙伴和私人基金会。因此，CAIANDTR的试点和可行性 该计划每年为每个项目拨款20，000美元，最多两年，以支持科学研究 有价值的研究，严格测试的做法，治疗，教育努力，和政策，可以影响 持续、广泛地减少由于糖尿病引起的AI/AN健康差异。迄今为止，项目的重点是 与参与者和患者的招募和保留相关的因素;关于创新、文化知情 提高卫生知识普及率的方法;家庭结构和过程对坚持 治疗建议;关于组织气氛和文化之间的关系进行干预 成果;以及有效传播调查结果。在更新期间，这些活动支持 全国各地的调查人员，从而加强CAIANDTR的作用，作为一个国家资源， 发展新的研究方法，技术和方法，以创新，目标- 指导糖尿病研究。

PILOT AND FEASIBILITY PROGRAM: PROJECT SUMMARY The Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Diabetes Translation Research (CAIANDTR) nurtures innovative research at the intersection of diabetes, related morbidities, and health inequities, focusing on their prevention, treatment, and consequences across the lifespan. Toward this end, it funds pilot and feasibility projects that develop novel approaches to improving the health of underserved American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations. Such investments seed emerging research areas, explore new methodologies, and pursue new collaborations that could evolve into independently funded research or demonstration projects. Pilot data from preliminary studies are also crucial for obtaining significant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), industry partners, and private foundations. Accordingly, CAIANDTR's Pilot and Feasibility Program allocates up to $20,000 per year per project for a maximum of 2 years to support scientifically meritorious studies that rigorously test practices, treatments, educational efforts, and policies that can effect sustained, widespread reductions in AI/AN health disparities due to diabetes. Projects to date have focused on factors related to recruitment and retention of participants and patients; on innovative, culturally informed methods for improving health literacy; on the influence of family structure and processes on adherence to treatment recommendations; on the relationship between organizational climate and culture to intervention outcomes; and on effective dissemination of findings. During the renewal period, these activities support investigators across the country, thereby enhancing CAIANDTR's role as a national resource that contributes to the development of new research methods, technologies, and approaches pertinent to innovative, goal- directed diabetes research.