CARDIA CHICAGO FC DIVERSITY SUPPLEMENT - TASK AREA E

候选人的长期目标是成为一名独立的调查员，研究社会心理因素，特别是抑郁症状，如何影响弱势群体的心血管健康。拟议的补充将提供一个专门的2年培训计划，使候选人能够发展心血管健康，先进的纵向数据分析和赠款写作的心理社会决定因素的专业知识。辅导团队将确保在补充完成后无缝过渡到独立，研究计划将提高候选人的研究能力。抑郁症状是心血管疾病的公认预测因子。然而，大多数研究在单一时间点评估抑郁症状，这种方法忽略了抑郁症的动态性质。包括重复测量的少数研究通常使用传统的建模方法，该方法假设群体中的个体具有单一轨迹，可以充分捕获所有个体的平均变化。这些方法可能会导致错误，因为一生中抑郁症状的过程是高度异质性的。

The candidate’s long-term goal is to become an independent investigator examining how psychosocial factors, in particular depressive symptoms, impact cardiovascular health among vulnerable populations. The proposed supplement will provide a specialized 2-year training plan that will enable the candidate to develop expertise in the psychosocial determinants of cardiovascular health, advanced longitudinal data analysis, and grant writing. The mentoring team will ensure a seamlessly transition into independence following completion of the supplement and the research plan will enhance the candidate’s research capabilities. Depressive symptoms are well-established predictors of CVD. However, most studies assess depressive symptoms at a single timepoint, an approach that neglects to account for the dynamic nature of depression. The few studies that include repeated measures, typically use conventional modeling approaches which assume individuals within a population have a single trajectory that can adequately capture average change across all individuals. These approaches can lead to errors because the course of depressive symptoms over the lifetime is highly heterogeneous.