Training in Chronic Illness Research in Florida and Abroad

描述(由申请人提供)：本项目的目的是继续在迈阿密的佛罗里达国际大学进行少数民族国际研究培训计划。护理教师与意大利罗马大学、哥伦比亚国立大学、伦敦精神病学研究所、德国维腾/赫德克私立大学和比勒费尔德大学以及泰国坤康大学的外国教师合作并合作进行联合研究。所有合作伙伴向少数群体本科生和研究生提供国际临床研究培训，重点是慢性病患者和家庭护理方面的差异(国家目标一、二，2010年健康人)。学生在旅行前和毕业前都是教员研究团队的一员。他们在慢性病护理的健康差距领域中选择一个感兴趣的主题，并在国际导师的帮助下继续在外国关注重点。教师合作伙伴计划与弱势家庭进行合作研究，为学生提供多元文化视角。学生参加研究预科课程，重点是研究设计和开展文化与健康、技能发展、道德、团队角色以及健康差距研究中的特殊问题。在五年的资助期间，我们计划招聘和指导护理和其他健康专业的40名本科生和10名研究生。一旦被选中，学生们将在整个教育计划中得到指导。他们积极参与并通过出版物和演示文稿，为传播与外国合作伙伴的研究合作成果做出贡献，并致力于研究事业。有多种方法有助于实现这些目标：个人辅导关系、在国外和FIU进行研究的指导、一个持续的研究活动小组、课程作业、撰写论文的指导和专业报告的准备。最终，这些年轻的研究人员将对健康差距人群中的慢性病患者及其家人的护理质量产生影响，因为他们拥有密集的研究经验，并与擅长促进少数族裔学生脱颖而出的教职员工合作。该项目的运作环境是，学院83%的本科生和73%的研究生是种族多样性，并生活在健康差距巨大的佛罗里达州。 相关性：这种有指导的国际临床研究培训机会将通过向来自少数族裔人口的护理和健康科学专业的学生提供慢性病领域和家庭方面所需的研究技能，来填补少数族裔健康研究人员的空白。MHIRT学生参与国内外旨在促进研究事业的研究活动，以解决少数族裔人口的健康差距，并带来新的方法，以改善对服务不足的慢性病患者及其家人的文化相关护理。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this project is to continue the Minority International Research Training program at Florida International University in Miami. Nursing faculty partner and collaborate in joint research with foreign faculty at the University "La Sapienza" Rome, Italy; National University of Colombia; Institute of Psychiatry, London, the Private University of Witten/Herdecke and Bielefeld University, Germany; and Khon Kaen University in Thailand. All partners provide minority undergraduate and graduate students with international clinical research training focused on disparities in the care of chronic illness patients and families (National Goals I, II, Healthy People 2010). Students are part of a faculty research team before their travel and until graduation. They choose a topic of interest within the area of health disparity in chronic illness care and continue the focus in a foreign country with an international mentor. The faculty partners plan collaborative research with vulnerable families to give students a multi-cultural perspective. Students take preparatory research courses focused on research design and conduct culture and health, skill development, ethics, team roles, and special issues in health disparities research. Over the 5 years of the grant, we plan to recruit and mentor 40 undergraduate and 10 graduate students in nursing and other health professions. Once selected, the students are mentored throughout their educational program. They participate actively and contribute to the dissemination of products of the research collaboration with the foreign partners through publications and presentations, and work toward a research career. A variety of methods help to achieve these goals: the individual mentoring relationship, guidance in the conduct of research both abroad and at FIU, an ongoing research activity group, course assignments, mentoring in writing papers and preparation for professional presentations. Ultimately, these young researchers will have an effect on the quality of care of chronically ill patients and their families in populations suffering health disparities, based on their intensive research exposure and work with faculty skilled in promoting excellence in minority students. This project functions in an environment where 83% of the undergraduate and 73% of the graduate students in the college are of ethnic diversity and live in Florida where health disparities are significant. RELEVANCE: This opportunity for mentored clinical international research training will fill a minority health researcher gap by providing nursing and health sciences students from minority populations with needed research skills in the area of chronic illness and the family. MHIRT students participate in research activities at home and abroad designed to promote a research career to address health disparities in minority populations and lead to new methods to improve culturally relevant care of underserved chronically ill patients and their families.