Center for Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Research

描述(由申请人提供)：这项核心中心赠款的目的是在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校护理学院的正式结构内，继续并加强服务不足人群健康促进和疾病预防研究中心(CHPR)。该中心支持的活动和研究将强调发展健康促进/疾病预防干预措施，这些干预措施以社区为基础，具有文化能力，并针对年龄和性别，以促进未得到充分服务的群体的健康。该中心将包括一个核心行政结构、一个试点/可行性赠款机制和三个研究核心：理论、研究方法和技术核心、传播核心和未得到充分服务的人口核心。该中心的主要组成部分将是促进研究人员之间的跨学科和机构间合作；探索在服务不足人群的研究中使用技术的创新方式；传播和翻译研究成果；发展与服务不足群体代表的联系。将进行由该中心支持的试点研究，其共同的具体目标是获得数据，以证明外部赠款申请的合理性，以测试针对服务不足群体的创新健康促进/疾病预防干预措施。这项研究的目的将是缩小种族和少数民族人口、妇女和儿童、特别是贫困家庭的妇女和儿童以及患有慢性病和残疾的人的健康状况方面的差距。该中心将提供所需的资源和支持服务，以继续保持护理教师研究生产力的最新势头；使现有的研究人员能够增加他们工作的深度和广度；促进护理学院教师和来自其他大学系的教师之间加强合作；在少数族裔服务机构培养新的教师调查人员；并增加针对服务不足的人群进行健康促进/疾病预防干预项目的护理教师人数。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this Core Center grant is to continue and enhance a Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research for Underserved Populations (CHPR) within the formal structure of the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin. Activities and studies supported by the Center will emphasize the development of health promotion/disease prevention interventions that are community-based, culturally competent and age- and gender-specific to promote the health of underserved groups. The Center will include a core administrative structure, a pilot/feasibility grant mechanism, and three research cores: Theory, Research Methods & Technology Core, Dissemination Core, and Underserved Populations Core. Major components of the Center will be the promotion of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration among researchers; exploration of innovative ways of using technology in research with underserved populations; dissemination and translation of research findings; and development of linkages with representatives of underserved groups. Pilot studies supported by the Center will be conducted with the common specific aim of acquiring the data to justify extramural grant applications to test innovative health promotion/disease prevention interventions for underserved groups. The intent of the research will be to reduce disparities in the health status of racial and ethnic minority populations; of women and children, In particular those from impoverished backgrounds: and of people with chronic and disabling conditions. The Center will provide needed resources and support services to continue recent momentum in research productivity of nursing faculty; to enable current investigators to add depth and breadth to their work; to foster increased collaboration among School of Nursing faculty and faculty from other University departments; to develop new faculty investigators at minority serving institutions; and to expand the number of nursing faculty conducting health promotion/disease prevention intervention projects targeted at underserved populations.