Behavioral Research Mentorship in Diabetes for Early Career Scientists from Diverse and Underrepresented Groups.

项目概要/摘要 1型糖尿病（T1 D）管理在过渡时期尤其具有挑战性，例如在新的 诊断，青春期早期，改变治疗时，以及从儿科到成人护理的过渡期间。 自我管理困难和血糖和生活质量结果恶化的风险增加， 伴随着这些充满挑战的时期。尽管有几十年的行为研究， 支持行为干预，并证明其有效性，以改善这些结果。与基金会在 行为改变和积极心理学的科学，弹性和糖尿病（RAD）行为研究 贝勒医学院（Baylor College of Medicine）和德克萨斯儿童医院（Texas Children's Hospital）的实验室进行了基于力量的测试。 研究旨在促进T1 D年轻人的积极心理和医疗结果， 家庭成员首席研究员Marisa Hilliard博士是一位行为科学家和心理学家， 领导多学科的RAD实验室研究团队，并指导学习者，包括学士后研究 工作人员，研究生，博士后研究员和初级教师。希利亚德博士目前的许多学员都认为， 因为她来自在科学领域代表性不足的种族、民族和社会经济群体， 寻求与提供研究导师有关的重点培训，关注以下方面的经验和需求： 具有不同身份的学员。她已被公认为优秀的研究导师，并寻求进一步 加强她的技能，建立一个训练有素的，多样化的早期职业研究人员在行为领域的管道 糖尿病科学这项K26提案旨在加强Hilliard博士的技能和能力， 对行为糖尿病感兴趣的不同早期职业研究人员的文化意识研究指导 研究，无论是在RAD实验室在北京大学和TCH和其他机构。在受保护的时间内 通过K26，Hilliard博士将从事两项主要的导师相关活动：（1）扩展她的能力， 利用NIDDK资助的R 01项目的数据，为学员提供基于个人和小组的研究指导 和其他研究赠款集中在T1 D生活的行为方面，以及（2）加强她的技能， 研究导师制，通过国家专家的持续、个人导师制辅导， 她在学习和应用技能的反种族主义，文化意识的研究导师，使用系统的 确定和培养学员优势的方法，并将发展透镜应用于支持 为来自不同学科和技能水平的学员提供研究成功和专业发展。她将 至少每年参加研究指导技能发展讲习班。尽早招募更多的 来自代表性不足背景的职业学员，他们对追求研究培训感兴趣， 在行为糖尿病的职业生涯，她将与合作伙伴与tch和TCH前和博士后培训计划， 儿科糖尿病和内分泌学和心理学，专注于支持学习者的研究生课程 来自代表性不足的群体，以及地方和国家的研究培训计划和学生组织。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Type 1 diabetes (T1D) management is particularly challenging during periods of transition, such as at new diagnosis, early adolescence, when changing treatments, and during the transition from pediatric to adult care. Difficulties with self-management and increased risk for worsening glycemic and quality of life outcomes often accompany these challenging periods. Despite decades of behavioral research, there are few empirically supported behavioral interventions with proven efficacy to improve these outcomes. With foundations in the science of behavior change and positive psychology, the Resilience and Diabetes (RAD) Behavioral Research Lab at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) conducts strengths-based research that aims to promote positive psychosocial and medical outcomes in young people with T1D and their family members. The Principal Investigator, Marisa Hilliard, PhD, is a behavioral scientist and psychologist who leads the multidisciplinary RAD Lab research team and mentors learners, including post-baccalaureate research staff, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. Many of Dr. Hilliard’s current mentees identify as being from racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups that are underrepresented in science, and she has sought focused training related to providing research mentorship with attention to the experiences and needs of mentees with diverse identities. She has been recognized for excellent research mentorship and seeks to further strengthen her skills to build a pipeline of well-trained, diverse early career researchers in the field of behavioral diabetes science. This K26 proposal aims to strengthen Dr. Hilliard’s skills and capacity to provide personalized, culturally aware research mentorship to diverse early career researchers interested in behavioral diabetes research, both within the RAD Lab at BCM and TCH and at other institutions. With the protected time afforded by the K26, Dr. Hilliard will engage in two primary mentorship-related activities: (1) expanding her capacity to provide individual and group-based research mentorship to mentees using data from her NIDDK-funded R01s and other research grants focused on behavioral aspects of living with T1D, and (2) strengthening her skills in research mentorship through continuous, individual mentorship coaching from national experts who will guide her in learning and applying skills for anti-racist, culturally aware research mentorship, using a systematic approach to identifying and fostering mentee strengths, and applying a developmental lens to supporting research success and professional development for mentees from various disciplines and skill levels. She will participate in workshops for research mentorship skill development at least annually. To recruit additional early career mentees from underrepresented backgrounds who have interests in pursuing research training and careers in behavioral diabetes, she will partner with BCM and TCH pre- and postdoctoral training programs in Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology and Psychology, BCM graduate programs focused on supporting learners from underrepresented groups, and local and national research training programs and student organizations.