Biobehavioral Nursing Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：华盛顿大学是独一无二的，拥有一支护士科学家和跨学科科学家的队伍，他们的工作证明了生物行为研究的重点是个人和系统指标，这些指标对整个生命周期的预防干预至关重要。在其第一个五年，生物行为护理研究培训计划（BNRTP）有助于增加新的科学家在生物行为理论和方法熟练的数量，支持11个博士前和7个博士后学者的研究培训。我们现在要求继续和扩大目前的培训工作，以便：1）扩大对个人脆弱性与整个生命周期的环境风险之间的生物行为界面的理解，纳入理解和减少健康差距方面的进展;（二）整合生物和行为仪器以及最先进的技术，用于研究个人脆弱性与环境风险之间的关系，3）扩大跨学科和协作努力，以测试旨在管理生物行为脆弱性和风险的干预措施，以预防疾病、损伤和功能性残疾，或疾病、损伤和残疾的进展。这种竞争性的继续申请要求每年为六（6）名博士前和三（3）名博士后学者提供机构培训计划支持，以继续增加精通生物行为理论和方法的护士科学家的骨干。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Washington is unique in having a cadre of nurse scientists and interdisciplinary scientists whose work exemplifies biobehavioral research focused on both individual and system indicators fundamental to preventive interventions throughout the lifespan. In its first five years, the Biobehavioral Nursing Research Training Program (BNRTP) has contributed to increasing the number of new scientists skilled in biobehavioral theory and methodology, supporting research training for 11 predoctoral and 7 postdoctoral scholars. We are now requesting a continuation and expansion of the current training effort in order to: 1) Expand understanding of the biobehavioral interface between individual vulnerability and environmental risk throughout the lifespan, incorporating advances in understanding and reducing health disparities; 2) Integrate biological and behavioral instrumentation and state of the art technologies for studying transactions between individual vulnerability and environmental risk for disease, disability, or progression of these adverse responses; 3) Expand interdisciplinary and collaborative efforts to test interventions aimed at managing biobehavioral vulnerability and risk in preventing disease, impairment and functional disability, or progression of disease, impairment and disability. This competing continuation application requests institutional training program support for six (6) predoctoral and three (3) postdoctoral scholars each year in order to continue to increase the cadre of nurse scientists skilled in biobehavioral theory and methodology.