Self-Management Pilot/Feasibility and Biobehavioral Outcomes Core

制定循证策略以改善心血管和肺疾病的自我管理 疾病需要研究人员开展科学合理、严谨的研究。测量 心血管和肺部疾病自我管理的生物行为结果提出了挑战， 研究人员进入这个研究领域。肯塔基州大学护理学院的规模翻了一番， 本科课程资助聘请8名额外的教师谁将有50%的释放时间 已经得到了董事会的批准这些新成员，谁将是调查员早 在他们的研究生涯中，将被雇用超过三年。其中三名成员将于2007年秋季开始工作。在 此外，我们有初级教师（达琳威尔士和米舒克钟）和既定的调查员（安佩登 和Lynne Hall）计划加入我们的心血管和肺部研究团队 (RICH心脏计划）。拟议中的中心将非常适合帮助这些教师发展 心血管和肺部疾病自我管理的研究计划。 为了满足当前和未来教师的需求，拟议的核心将协助项目 * 调查员参与制订和进行试点/可行性研究，以改进 心血管和肺部疾病，包括生物行为结果的测量。建议，培训， 和指导将提供研究设计以及测量和解释三种类型的 结果：1）证明干预有效性的生物行为变量（例如，知识， 心理状态，生理状态），2）证明自我管理改善的生物行为变量 行为（例如，依从性、营养状态、生理状态），以及3）生物行为 证明临床结果改善的变量（例如，生理状态，死亡率，发病率， 生活质量）。

Development of evidence-based strategies to improve self-management of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases requires that investigators develop scientifically sound, rigorous research studies. Measuring biobehavioral outcomes of self-management of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases presents challenges to investigators entering this field of study. The University of Kentucky College of Nursing is doubling the size of the undergraduate program. Funding to hire eight additional faculty members who will have 50% release time for research has been approved by the Board of Regents. These new members, who will be investigators early in their research careers, will be hired over three years. Three of these members will start in the Fall of 2007. In addition, we have junior faculty (Darlene Welsh and Misook Chung) and established investigators (Ann Peden and Lynne Hall) on our faculty who are planning to join our cardiovascular and pulmonary research team (RICH Heart Program). The proposed Center will be ideally suited to assist these faculty members to develop programs of research in self-management of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. To meet the needs of current and future faculty members, the proposed Core will assist project investigators in the development and conduct of pilot/feasibility studies aimed at improving self-management of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases that include measurement of biobehavioral outcomes. Advice, training, and mentorship will be provided in research design as well as measurement and interpretation of three types of outcomes: 1) biobehavioral variables that demonstrate effectiveness of interventions (e.g., knowledge, psychological status, physiological status), 2) biobehavioral variables that demonstrate improvement in selfmanagement behaviors (e.g., adherence, nutritional status, physiological status), and 3) biobehavioral variables that demonstrate improvement in clinical outcomes (e.g., physiological status, mortality, morbidity, and quality of life).