Health-Related Desistance from Problem Drinking in Midlife Older Adulthood

 描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的独立之路奖的主要目标是加速和完成马修·李博士在发展酒精研究方面的培训，并启动他作为独立科学家的职业生涯。Lee博士是一名博士后研究员，即将完成密苏里州（MU）心理科学系NIAAA资助的T32培训奖学金。拟议项目的两年培训（K99）阶段将完成李博士在整个生命周期中检查病理性戒酒过程的培训。在监督下，李博士将进行研究，评估如何驱动停止病态饮酒的过程可能会在不同的发展阶段有所不同。他将通过课程，阅读和咨询接受培训，以增加他对综合数据分析，数据收集方法，进行实用信息研究的策略，中年和老年人的发展问题，停止病理性饮酒的理论和多级结构方程建模的知识。他将出席与酒精使用/滥用和青年和老年人的发展问题有关的会议。李博士还将投入大量时间，通过手稿准备和提交来传播拟议研究的结果。建议的导师（Sher博士）和合作者/顾问（Curran博士、Hussong博士、Bauer博士、Heath博士、Bucholz博士、Chassin博士、Dearing博士、Caspi博士、Infurna博士和Steinley博士）共同提供了非常适合促进成功完成建议的培训和研究活动的专业知识。此外，MU是一个世界级的研究机构，有必要的资源，以促进成功完成的 第99章这个计划的目的为期三年的独立（R 00）阶段将允许Lee博士通过新的数据收集进一步研究中年和老年人的病理性戒酒过程。这项工作将极大地扩展李博士过去对年轻人在危险饮酒中的发展变化的研究，包括解决NIAAA对寿命发展的重视以及对中年和老年人危险饮酒的更多经验关注的必要性。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The major objectives of the proposed Pathway to Independence Award are the acceleration and completion of Dr. Matthew Lee's training in developmental alcohol research and the launching of his career as an independent scientist. Dr. Lee is a postdoctoral fellow nearing completion of an NIAAA-funded T32 training fellowship in the department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri (MU). The two-year training (K99) phase of the proposed project will complete Dr. Lee's training in the examination of processes of pathological drinking desistance across the lifespan. With supervision, Dr. Lee will conduct research assessing how the processes that drive desistance from pathological drinking may vary across developmental stages. He will receive training via coursework, readings, and consultation to increase his knowledge of integrative data analysis, data collection methodology, strategies for conducting practically-informative research, developmental issues of midlife and older adults, theories of desistance from pathological drinking, and multilevel structural equation modeling. He will attend conferences related to alcohol use/misuse and developmental issues of young adulthood and older adulthood. Dr. Lee will also dedicate a great deal of his time to the dissemination of findings from the proposed research through manuscript preparation and submission. The proposed mentor (Dr. Sher) and collaborators/consultants (Drs. Curran, Hussong, Bauer, Heath, Bucholz, Chassin, Dearing, Caspi, Infurna, and Steinley) collectively provide expertise that is ideally suited to facilitate te successful completion of the proposed training and research activities. Further, MU is a world-class research institution, with the resources necessary to facilitate successful completion of the training (K99) phase of this proposed project. The three-year independent (R00) phase will allow Dr. Lee to further examine processes of pathological drinking desistance among midlife and older adults via new data collection. This work will greatly extend Dr. Lee's past research on young adult developmental changes in risky drinking, including in ways that address NIAAA's emphases on lifespan development and the need for greater empirical attention to risky drinking among midlife and older adults.