Research on Vulnerable Women, Children and Families

描述(由申请者提供)：我们提议对宾夕法尼亚大学护理学院(SON)的机构国家研究服务奖进行竞争性续展，以表彰“促进弱势人群健康的研究培训”。我们将在前两个获奖期的成功基础上再接再厉，包括：1)从代表性不足的少数族裔招聘超过40%的研究员；2)招聘所有职位的合格研究员；3)将研究员整合到儿子的六个研究中心和整个大学内部；4)对研究员进行教育，增加他们在文化能力、基于理论和适合发展的干预措施方面的研究专门知识。我们正在提出一个扩展的研究-培训计划，该计划基于衍生的与弱势妇女、儿童和家庭相关的健康差距决定因素的生态模型。该方案建立在现有SON科学家成熟的基础上，通过资助社区参与性研究领域的研究方案，并利用增加具有生物行为调查方法专业知识的科学家。具体目标是培训护士科学家：1)研究导致弱势妇女、儿童和家庭健康差距的多系统水平的因素；2)发展前沿、文化上适当的跨学科研究战略方面的专门知识，有可能识别和减少健康差距，特别注重生物行为、描述性和干预方法；3)以相互启发的方式与跨学科科学家、社区领袖和干预措施的预期受益者合作，以促进弱势妇女、儿童和家庭的健康；4)培养价值观、批判性思维、沟通技能和研究专长，以解决造成、维持或扩大弱势人群健康差距的权力差异。教职员工拥有丰富的历史和令人印象深刻的生物行为、描述性和干预研究组合，这些研究显著增强了我们对弱势群体健康差异的理解。在这个为期五年的竞争更新培训计划中，每年将支持四名博士后和四名博士后实习生。当培训完成后，他们将能够使用新的方法为弱势群体及其家人的医疗保健作出重大贡献。我们的目标是让这些受训者以可持续的方式为一大批学者做出贡献，他们的研究路线将阐明、减少和消除弱势妇女、儿童和家庭的健康差距。 相关性：令人信服的证据表明，弱势群体存在严重的健康问题。需要训练有素的科学家，他们能够以新的方式解决这些问题，以消除健康差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are proposing a competitive renewal of the Institutional National Research Service Award at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (SON) for "Research Training to Promote Health in Vulnerable Populations." We will build on the successes from our first two award periods that include: 1) recruitment of more than 40% of our fellows from under-represented minorities; 2) recruitment of qualified fellows to all positions; 3) integration of fellows within the six research centers at the SON and within the University at large; 4) education of fellows that increased their research expertise regarding culturally-competent, theoretically-based, and developmentally-appropriate interventions. We are proposing an expanded research- training program based on the Derived Ecological Model of Determinants of Health Disparities related to Vulnerable Women, Children, and Families. The program builds on the maturation of existing SON scientists with funded programs of research in the area of community participatory research and capitalizes on the addition of scientists with expertise in bio-behavioral methods of inquiry. Specific aims are to train nurse scientists to: 1) study multi-system level factors that contribute to health disparities among vulnerable women, children, and families; 2) develop expertise in cutting-edge, culturally-appropriate, interdisciplinary research strategies with the potential to identify and reduce health disparities, with a particular focus on bio-behavioral, descriptive, and intervention methods; 3) collaborate with a diverse group of interdisciplinary scientists, community leaders, and anticipated beneficiaries of interventions in a mutually instructive fashion to promote health in vulnerable women, children, and families; 4) develop values, critical thinking, communication skills, and research expertise that address the power differentials that create, sustain, or augment health disparities in vulnerable populations. Faculty members have a strong history and impressive portfolio of bio-behavioral, descriptive, and intervention studies that have significantly enhanced our understanding of health disparities in vulnerable populations. In this five-year competitive-renewal training program, four pre- and four post- doctoral trainees will be supported annually. When training is completed, they will be positioned to use novel methods to make significant contributions to the health care of vulnerable people and their families. Our goal is for these trainees to contribute in sustainable ways to a critical mass of scholars whose lines of inquiry will illuminate, reduce, and eliminate health disparities in vulnerable women, children, and families. RELEVANCE: Compelling evidence demonstrates that vulnerable populations have significant health problems. Trained scientists who can address these problems in novel ways are needed to eliminate health disparities.