Increasing Aging Research by Social Work Faculty

社会工作学院加强老龄化研究

• 批准号: 7905574
• 负责人: CHANDRA M MEHROTRA
• 金额: $ 4.85万
• 依托单位: COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-30 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7905574
• 关键词: Age; Aging; Americas; Applications Grants; Awareness; Clinical; Collaborations; Development; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Effectiveness of Interventions; Elderly; Empirical Research; Ethnic Origin; Evaluation; Faculty; Family; Foundations; Funding; Generations; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Status; Institutes; Intervention; Knowledge; Measurement; Minority; Modeling; Monitor; Motivation; Outcome; Participant; Population Heterogeneity; Program Evaluation; Psychology; Publications; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Training; Secure; Services; Social Health Services; Social Work; Social Workers; Societies; Source; Students; Training; Training Programs; Translational Research; Underserved Population; United States National Institutes of Health; Update; Work; age related; care systems; caregiving; disability; improved; instructor; programs; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; skills; success; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This renewal application seeks partial support from NIA to offer a research training program for 15 social work faculty. The requested grant will be supplemented by a $70,000 commitment that has been approved by the Hartford Foundation through a liaison with the Gerontological Society of America. The proposed program builds upon a highly successful research training program for social work faculty offered since 2004. The overarching goal remains the same: to expand the pool of social work faculty engaged in aging research. This, in turn, will reinvigorate their teaching, prepare them to update aging-related content in the curriculum, and enhance their ability to motivate new generations of social work students to pursue the study of aging. Specific aims include: (1) To increase social work faculty's knowledge, skills, and motivation for pursuing an active program of aging research; (2) To provide participants an opportunity to interact intensively with senior investigators and to promote the development of networking relationships among current and prior participants; and (3) To increase participants' awareness of grant support available from NIH and how to develop and submit strong applications. The success of this training model is documented by the fact that more than 56 percent of those who participated in the social work program between 2004 and 2008 have already secured research funding. Moreover, 30 percent of the participants from an earlier NIA-funded psychology institute have secured NIA/NIH funding and an additional 50 percent have received grants from other sources. All of the proposed activities will involve continuing strong collaboration with the Gerontological Society of America, John A. Hartford Foundation, Society for Social Work and Research, Council for Social Work Education, The Hartford Geriatric Enrichment Program, Institute for Advancement of Social Work Research, and National Association of Social Workers. Institute topics and instructors include: Research Design, Measurement, and Analysis (Aloen Townsend), Evaluation of Interventions (Susan Hughes), Caregiving and Disabilities (Marsha Seltzer), Ethnicity and Aging (Keith Whitfield), Preparing Grant Applications (Chandra Mehrotra), NIA Support Available for Aging Research (NIA staff), and Submitting Grant Applications Electronically (Chandra Mehrotra and Aloen Townsend). Given the program's success in achieving 40 percent minority participation to date, recruitment efforts will continue to focus on attracting participants from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds and those with disabilities. Quantitative and qualitative program evaluation will be conducted to monitor implementation of proposed activities and to assess their effectiveness in achieving the intended outcomes. Program faculty and participants will disseminate NIA-supported activities via conference presentations, publications, and websites. In the spirit of translational research, the focus will be on sharing research findings and their implications with health and social service professionals who work with older adults and their families. This, in turn, will enhance the health status of older adults, especially those from underserved populations. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The social work profession has developed significant clinical expertise in working with and across systems of care and services on a variety of levels in the context of interdisciplinary teams and in direct practice with diverse populations. The proposed research training program will stimulate social work faculty and their students to undertake empirical research aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of these interventions to optimize health outcomes for older adults. In addition, the participants will conduct widespread dissemination of their research findings, thereby making a unique and important contribution to improving the health status of older adults, especially those underserved in the past.

描述（由申请人提供）：本续签申请寻求 NIA 的部分支持，为 15 名社会工作教师提供研究培训计划。所请求的赠款将得到哈特福德基金会通过与美国老年学会联络批准的 70,000 美元承诺的补充。拟议的计划建立在自 2004 年以来为社会工作教师提供的非常成功的研究培训计划的基础上。总体目标保持不变：扩大从事老龄化研究的社会工作教师队伍。反过来，这将重振他们的教学，为更新课程中与老龄化相关的内容做好准备，并增强他们激励新一代社会工作学生研究老龄化的能力。具体目标包括： (1) 提高社会工作教师的知识、技能和积极性，以开展积极的老龄化研究项目； (2) 为参与者提供与高级研究人员深入互动的机会，并促进当前和先前参与者之间网络关系的发展； (3) 提高参与者对 NIH 提供的资助支持以及如何制定和提交强有力的申请的认识。 2004 年至 2008 年间，超过 56% 的社会工作项目参与者已经获得了研究经费，这一事实证明了这种培训模式的成功。此外，来自早期 NIA 资助的心理学研究所的参与者中有 30% 获得了 NIA/NIH 的资助，另外 50% 的参与者获得了其他来源的资助。所有拟议的活动都将涉及与美国老年学会、约翰·A·哈特福德基金会、社会工作与研究协会、社会工作教育委员会、哈特福德老年丰富计划、社会工作研究促进研究所和全国社会工作者协会的持续密切合作。研究所主题和讲师包括：研究设计、测量和分析（Aloen Townsend）、干预评估（Susan Hughes）、护理和残疾（Marsha Seltzer）、种族和老龄化（Keith Whitfield）、准备拨款申请（Chandra Mehrotra）、NIA 可用于老龄化研究的支持（NIA 工作人员）以及以电子方式提交拨款申请（Chandra Mehrotra） 和阿伦·汤森）。鉴于该计划迄今为止已成功实现 40% 的少数族裔参与，招募工作将继续侧重于吸引来自不同民族和种族背景以及残疾人的参与者。将进行定量和定性计划评估，以监测拟议活动的实施情况并评估其在实现预期成果方面的有效性。项目教师和参与者将通过会议演讲、出版物和网站传播 NIA 支持的活动。本着转化研究的精神，重点将是与与老年人及其家人一起工作的健康和社会服务专业人员分享研究成果及其影响。反过来，这将提高老年人的健康状况，特别是那些服务不足的人群。 公共健康相关性：社会工作专业在跨学科团队的背景下以及在不同人群的直接实践中与不同级别的护理和服务系统合作并跨不同层次的护理和服务系统发展了重要的临床专业知识。拟议的研究培训计划将刺激社会工作教师及其学生进行实证研究，旨在提高这些干预措施的效率和效果，以优化老年人的健康结果。此外，参与者还将广泛传播他们的研究成果，从而为改善老年人，特别是过去服务不足的老年人的健康状况做出独特而重要的贡献。