Ethnic Group Differences in Mental Health Disparities

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议在美国黑人研究项目中建立“心理健康差异的种族差异博士后培养计划”，该项目是密歇根大学社会研究所群体动力学研究中心的几个项目之一。拟议的培训计划将为全国的年轻学者提供研究培训机会，特别强调对种族和民族心理健康差异感兴趣的学者。该培训和扩展指导计划是一种机制，旨在增加心理健康领域的多民族和多种族博士后学者的数量，这些博士后学者研究与民族和种族群体之间的心理健康和精神障碍差异有关的问题；同时也为少数民族跨学科研究人员的新干部提供坚实的研究培训。根据最近发表的报告“对美国未来的投资：心理健康研究职业中的种族/民族多样性”，培训种族/少数民族心理健康科学家对国家卫生保健的质量以及我们更广泛的国家经济福利至关重要”（国家心理健康研究所，2001年，第6页）。本博士后培养计划旨在解决这一重要挑战。利用美国人生活全国调查（NSAL） （NIMH资助的一项研究，目前在该领域主要关注非洲裔美国人和非洲裔加勒比人）和全国拉丁裔和亚裔美国人调查（NIMH资助的一项研究，主要关注拉丁裔和亚裔人口）作为培训的基本工具，该计划将寻求提供操作、分析、并公布来自三个种族和族裔群体的广泛代表性国家样本的数据。具体而言，我们建议在五年内增加研究心理健康中种族/民族差异相关问题的种族和民族多样性学者的数量，并通过增加他们在心理健康学者中的代表性来丰富科学知识基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to establish the "Ethnic Group Differences in Mental Health Disparities Postdoctoral Training Program" within the Program for Research on Black Americans, one of several programs in the Research Center for Group Dynamics situated within the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan. The proposed training program will provide research-training opportunities for young scholars nationally, with special emphasis on scholars interested in racial and ethnic mental health disparities. This training and extended mentoring program is proposed as a mechanism for increasing the numbers of ethnically and racially diverse postdoctoral scholars in the mental health fields conducting research on issues related to disparities in mental health and mental disorders among ethnic and racial groups; as well to provide a solid research training for a new cadre of minority researchers trained cross-disciplinarily. According to the recently, published report "An Investment in America's Future: Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Mental Health Research Careers , "training racial/ethnic minority mental health scientists is critical to the quality of the Nation's health care as well as to our broader national economic welfare" (National Institute of Mental Health, 2001, p. 6). This proposed postdoctoral training program aims to address this important challenge. Using the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) (a study funded by NIMH currently in the field focused on African American and Afro-Caribbean populations), and the National Latino and Asian American Survey (a study funded by NIMH focused on Latino and Asian populations) as the basic vehicles for training, the program would seek to provide hand-on experience in the manipulation, analysis, and publication of data from these broad representative national samples of the three racial and ethnic groups. Specifically, we propose over the five-year period to increase the number of racially and ethnically diverse scholars conducting research on issues related to racial/ethnic disparities in mental health as well as to enrich the scientific knowledge base through their increased representation among mental health scholars.