Building End-of-Life Science through Positive Human Strengths and Traits

描述(申请人提供)：本申请建议建立一个跨学科的生物医学核心，专注于严重疾病患者的生活质量研究，包括那些处于生命末期的患者。拟议的生物医学核心中心，通过积极的人类优势和特征(BEST)建立临终科学，得到了一个由研究人员、临床医生和晚期疾病患者及其家人的生活质量方面的学术领袖组成的强大的跨学科小组的支持。BEST中心将把姑息治疗研究的科学推向一个新的方向--一个范式的转变，将解决对积极的心理特征的研究的需要，这些特征对个人的耐受能力甚至成长能力具有最大的影响，尽管面临严重疾病的身体和情感威胁。BEST中心的目标是：(1)建立生物医学核心中心(BEST)，专注于以下特定的目标研究领域：评估和加强人类在应对和管理严重疾病方面的优势(如习得的乐观主义、自我效能、社会联系)的战略；(2)正式确定和协调教职员工和机构之间目前的非正式合作关系，以支持目标研究领域的研究项目；以及(3)招聘和支持致力于目标领域研究的新教员。为了做到这一点，最佳做法中心将分为三个核心：(A)行政核心；(B)外联和教育核心；(C)指导核心。该中心将扩大和加强护理学院的能力，以调查积极心理学研究结果在严重和限制生命的疾病患者群体中的应用，重点是改善所有领域的生活质量。除了创建一个支持这一计划的组织结构外，我们还将招聘和聘用三名新的教职员工，致力于开发针对这一人群的积极属性和/或生物相关性的研究计划。BEST中心是由一个跨学科的教员小组进行的相关研究建立的，这些教员来自目前在内部教员协作中联系在一起的学科。在这个坚实的基础上，我们将继续促进与社区项目、临床实践环境和跨机构层面的现有关系的战略合作，以促进合作并分享与临终科学相关的研究专业知识和知识。对活动和里程碑的彻底评估将有助于我们衡量我们的成功，并促进最佳中心的可持续性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes establishment of an interdisciplinary biomedical core focused on quality of life research for seriously ill people, including those who are at the end of life. The proposed biomedical core center, Building End-of-Life Science through Positive Human Strengths and Traits (BEST), is supported by a strong interdisciplinary group of researchers, clinicians, and academic leaders In quality of life of patients with advanced Illness and their families. The BEST Center will move the science of palliative care research into a new direction- a paradigm shift that will address the need for investigations of the positive psychological traits that have the greatest influence on an individual's capacity to tolerate and even grow despite the physical and emotional threat of serious illness. The aims of the BEST Center are : (1) establish a Biomedical Core Center (BEST), focused on the following specific targeted area of research: strategies assessing and building on human strengths (such as learned optimism, self-efficacy, social connectedness) in coping with and managing serious illness; (2) formalize and coordinate current informal collaborative relationships among faculty and Institutions in order to support research projects in the targeted area of research; and (3) recruit and support new faculty committed to investigations in the targeted area. In order to do this, the BEST Center will be organized into three cores: (a) the Executive Core; (b) the Outreach and Education Core; and (c) the Mentorship Core. This Center will augment and enhance the capacity of the School of Nursing to investigate the application of findings from positive psychology in the population of patients with serious and life-limiting illness focusing on improving the quality of life in all domains. In addition to creating an organizational structure to support this Initiative, we will recruit and hire three new faculty committed to developing programs of research targeting positive attributes and /or biologic correlates in this population. The BEST Center Is founded on the related research conducted by an interdisciplinary group of faculty from disciplines currently linked in an internal faculty collaborative. Building on this strong base, we will continue to foster strategic collaborations with community programs, clinical practice settings, and existing relationships across institutional levels to promote collaboration and to share research expertise and knowledge related to end-of-life science. A thorough evaluation of the activities and milestones will assist us to measure our success and promote the sustainability of the BEST Center.