BIOBEHAVIORAL NURSING RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM

行为、社会和生物过程在维持健康方面相互作用，在造成所有10种主要死亡原因方面相互作用，在维持占美国医疗保健支出大部分的主要慢性疾病方面相互作用。护理科学是一门综合了行为、社会和生物过程来理解和干预各种健康和疾病状态的学科。护理科学需要一个跨学科的生物行为的角度来发展干预措施，以防止沿健康和疾病的双重连续的功能受损，残疾和病理的发作或进展。然而，准备整合生物行为理论和方法的护士科学家数量相对较少。在过去的十年中，已经确定了在生物学和行为科学的界面上进行创新研究的护士科学家的严重短缺。这些科学家可以将基本的细胞过程转化为整个生物在生命过程和治疗方面的综合功能。受过生物行为训练的护士科学家在研究领域有深入的准备，但有足够的广度来理解传统学科之间的相互作用，并训练使用创新的研究技术和分析策略。该培训计划的目标是每年培养八(8)名博士前学者和三(3)名博士后学者，以增加熟练掌握生物行为理论和方法的护理科学家骨干。华盛顿大学的独特之处在于，它拥有一批护士科学家，他们在生物行为理论和方法以及预防干预方面的研究中发挥了示范作用。该培训计划的具体目标是让学员获得理论和方法能力，以：(1)扩大对个体脆弱性和环境风险之间生物行为界面的理解，作为产生新干预措施的基础；(2)整合生物学和行为学仪器和最先进的生物方法，研究个人脆弱性与疾病、残疾或这些不良健康反应进展的环境风险之间的关系；(3)测试旨在管理生物行为脆弱性和风险的护理疗法，以预防疾病、损伤和功能残疾，或疾病、损伤和残疾的进展。

Behavioral, social and biological processes interact in maintaining health, in causing all ten of the leading sources of death, and in sustaining the major chronic illnesses that account for most of health care spending in the United States. Nursing science is one of the disciplines that integrates behavioral, social and biological processes in understanding and intervening in various states of health and illness. Nursing science demands an interdisciplinary biobehavioral perspective in order to develop interventions to prevent onset or progression of impaired functioning, disability and pathology along the dual continua of health and illness. Yet the number of nurse scientists prepared to integrate biobehavioral theory and methodology is relatively small. In the past decade a serious shortage has been identified of nurse scientists prepared to conduct innovative research at the interface of biological and behavioral science. These are scientists who can translate fundamental cellular processes to the integrative functioning of whole living beings in terms of life processes and therapies. Biobehavioral trained nurse scientists are prepared with depth in an area of inquiry, yet with sufficient breadth to understand the interactions among the traditional disciplines, and trained to use innovative research technologies and analytic strategies. The goal of this training program is to train eight (8) predoctoral and three (3) postdoctoral scholars each year in order to increase the cadre of nurse scientists skilled in biobehavioral theory and methodology. The University of Washington is unique in having a cadre of nurse scientists who work exemplifies research in biobehavioral theory and methodology and in preventive interventions. The specific aims of this training program are for trainees to attain theoretical and methodological capability to (1) expand understanding of the biobehavioral interface between individual vulnerability and environmental risk as foundational for generating new interventions; (2) integrate biological and behavioral instrumentation and state of the art biomethodologies for studying transactions between individual vulnerability and environmental risk for disease, disability, or progression of these adverse health responses; and (3) test nursing therapeutics aimed at managing biobehavioral vulnerability and risk in preventing disease, impairment and functional disability, or progression of disease, impairment and disability.