Biobehavioral Nursing Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：华盛顿大学的独特之处在于拥有一支由护士科学家和跨学科科学家组成的骨干队伍，他们的工作体现了生物行为研究，重点关注个体和系统指标，这些指标对整个生命周期的预防干预至关重要。生物行为护理研究培训计划（BNRTP）在最初的五年里，促进了生物行为理论和方法方面的新科学家数量的增加，支持了11名博士生和7名博士后的研究培训。我们现在要求继续和扩大目前的培训工作，以便：1)扩大对整个生命周期中个人脆弱性和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的进展；2)整合生物学和行为学仪器和最新技术，以研究个人脆弱性与疾病、残疾或这些不良反应进展的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、损伤和功能残疾，或疾病、损伤和残疾的进展。这一竞争性的继续申请要求每年为六(6)名博士预科和三(3)名博士后学者提供机构培训计划支持，以继续增加熟练掌握生物行为理论和方法的护士科学家队伍。

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.