Disaster Research Education and Mentoring Center

描述（由申请人提供）：灾害、恐怖主义行为和其他大规模伤亡事件频繁发生，是我国人民身心健康的重大负担。良好的灾害研究需要研究人员、心理和公共卫生从业人员、灾害规划和救济机构以及公共决策者之间的合作，特别是在州和地方各级。本申请建议建立灾害研究教育与辅导中心。该中心是南卡罗来纳医科大学国家犯罪受害者研究和治疗中心的研究人员和纽约医学院的研究人员共同努力的结果，他们合作进行了一系列关于纽约9月11日恐怖袭击的重大研究。拟议的项目还涉及与各州政府委员会和美国红十字会的合作。鉴于灾害除了直接受害者外，还经常影响普通民众，DREM中心将主要侧重于研究评估和干预评估的流行病学方法。该项目有四个主要目标：1)提供灾害研究教育和指导；2)开发和实施基于网络的精神卫生和流行病学研究措施数据库；3)编制针对灾害的心理教育材料，供灾民使用；4)向州政府委员会和美国红十字会提供与灾害有关的身心健康问题以及针对此类问题的心理健康干预措施的安全性、有效性和有效性方面的循证信息。该中心将采用各种战略来实现这些目标，包括为研究人员和其他相关方提供个性化培训和指导，建立一个基于网络的灾害心理健康和流行病学研究措施数据库，提供研究指导，以及为灾民编写针对灾害的心理教育材料。该项目的一个重要组成部分是与州政府委员会和美国红十字会协商和合作，以促进与灾害有关的研究资料对公共决策者和救灾机构的有用性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Disasters, terrorist acts, and other mass casualty incidents occur frequently and are a major burden to our nation's mental and physical health. Good disaster research requires a collaboration among researchers, mental and public health practitioners, disaster planning and relief agencies, and public policy makers, particularly at the state and local levels. This application proposes to establish a Disaster Research Education and Mentoring (DREM) Center. The Center is a joint effort between researchers at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina and the New York Academy of Medicine, who collaborated on a series of major research studies of the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York. The proposed project also involves collaborations with the Council of State Governments and the American Red Cross. Given that disasters often impact the general population in addition to direct victims, the DREM center will focus primarily on epidemiological approaches to research assessment and intervention evaluation. The project has four major objectives: 1) Provide disaster research education and mentoring; 2) Develop and implement a web-based mental health and epidemiological research measures data-base; 3) Develop disaster-specific psychoeducational materials for potential use with disaster victims; and 4) provide the Council of State Governments and American Red Cross with evidence-based information about disaster-related physical and mental health problems as well as about the safety, efficacy, and effectiveness of mental health interventions for such problems. The Center will use a variety of strategies to accomplish these objectives including individualized training and mentoring for researchers and other relevant parties, a web-based disaster mental health and epidemiological research measures database, research mentoring, and developing disaster-specific psychoeducational materials for disaster victims. An important component of the project is consultation and collaboration with the Council of State Governments and the American Red Cross to facilitate the usefulness of disaster-related research information to public policy makers and disaster relief agencies.