NIMH/M-RISP: Advancing Research in Puerto Rico

描述(由申请人提供)：本次竞争续签申请请求继续支持波多黎各大学里约热内卢校区的NIMH M-RISP计划(UPR-RP)。该计划最初的资助期限为三年(92年至1995年)，随后为整个五年周期(95年至2000年)提供资金，包括五个单独的研究项目和一个基础设施核心。在这项申请中，提出了三个单独的项目和一个机构核心来继续开发这一方案。M-RISP计划的总体目标是促进UPR-RP在心理健康和艾滋病方面的高质量和严谨研究的发展。我们期望通过以下方式实现这一目标：(1)让教师参与试点工作，从而获得关于精神健康和艾滋病毒/艾滋病(MHA)问题的竞争性研究拨款，特别是干预和结果研究；(2)增加研究生和本科生对MHA研究的参与；(3)支持参与MHA研究的教师的研究开发活动；以及(4)加强和加强MHA研究的机构基础设施。该计划的基本原理是需要开发一种平行的支持结构，以便由少数族裔机构的少数族裔教员开展独立的MHA研究。UPR-RP拟议的教员研究发展方案由三个部分组成。第一个组成部分是一个机构核心，通过基于个人的教师研究活动计划、教师和学生发展活动以及方法统计核心来支持研究基础设施的发展。第二部分涉及各个学院的研究项目。提出了三个IIRP计划，有三名教职员工参与。17名参与者(14名附属教员和3名博士生)将参与MHA试点研究。第三部分涉及支持研究和研究开发活动的计划领导和评估。该计划的一个独特特点是组织在目前的机构资源中有一个明确、连贯和综合的职业发展计划，以支持MHA的研究。在项目开始的那一刻，教职员工就参与了他们的研究，并参与了一个发展的个性化计划，该计划支持教职员工逐步实现产生竞争性研究应用的目标。本科生和研究生参与教师研究的发展是该计划的另一个方面，旨在增加向学生提供的MHA研究的培训机会。来自UPR-RP(心理学、政治学和社会工作学院)和UPR-Mayagiiez校区的21名教职员工和6名博士生将参加拟议的MRISP。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This competing renewal application is requesting continued support for the NIMH M-RISP Program at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (UPR-RP). The program was funded for an initial three-year period (92-95) and later for a full five-year cycle (95-00) with five individual research projects and an infrastructure core. In this application three individual projects and an institutional core are proposed to continue developing this program. The general objective of M-RISP Program is to advance the growth of high quality and rigorous research on mental health and AIDS at the UPR-RP. We expect to accomplish this aim by (1) involving faculty members in conducting pilot work leading to a competitive research grant on mental health and HIV/AIDS (MHA) problems, especially interventions and outcome research; (2) increasing the participation of graduate and undergraduate students in MHA research, (3) supporting research development activities for faculty involved in MHA research; and (4) enhancing and strengthening the 'institutional infrastructure to conduct to MHA research. The rationale for the program is based on the need to develop a parallel structure of support to carry out independent MHA research by minority faculty at a minority institution. The proposed program for faculty research development at UPR-RP consists of three components. The first component is an Institutional Core to support research infrastructure development through individually based plans of faculty research activities, faculty and students development activities and methodological statistical core. The second component entails Individual Faculty Research Projects. Three IIRPs are proposed with three participating faculty members. Seventeen participants (fourteen affiliated faculty and three doctoral students) will be involved in MHA pilot research. The third component involves Program Leadership and Evaluation in support of research and research development activities. A unique feature of the program is the organization in the current institutional resources in a clear, coherent, and integrated plan of career development in support for MHA research. Faculty members are involved in carrying out their research for the moment the program begins and participate in a developmental individualized plan that supports the faculty member in step-by-step approach toward the objective of producing competitive research application. The participation of undergraduate and graduate students in the development of faculty research is another aspect of the program aimed at increasing the training opportunities offered to students in MHA research. Twenty-one faculty members and six doctoral students from UPR-RP (Psychology, Political Science and the School of Social Work) and the UPR-Mayagiiez Campus will participate in the proposed MRISP.