Faculty to Enhance Technology-Based Adolescent Asthma Health Disparity Research

描述(由申请人提供)：儿科预防研究中心是韦恩州立大学(WSU)儿科系的一个部门，是一个由多学科教员组成的小组，专注于行为干预以减少国内和国际上的儿科健康差距。这些努力包括对非裔美国青年肥胖和哮喘等NHLBI疾病的关注。哮喘对居住在市中心社区的少数族裔儿童，特别是青少年造成了很高的伤害。与白人青少年相比，非裔美国青少年不仅哮喘发病率更高，而且经历了更多的急诊科就诊、住院治疗和哮喘死亡。导致儿童哮喘死亡率/发病率的一个因素是哮喘管理不善。最近，几位教员利用技术开发了行为干预措施，以改善对患有艾滋病毒和糖尿病的青少年的疾病管理。这项RFA将允许Karen Kolmodin博士在9月1日之前过渡到独立教师身份，重点是将基于技术的行为干预扩展到患有哮喘的青少年。这种RFA满足了培训下一代儿科健康差距研究人员的迫切需求。威斯康星州立大学在满足这一需求方面处于独特的地位，因为我们位于底特律，这是美国主要城市中非裔美国人比例最高的城市(人口普查，2000)。随着试点项目让位于规模更大的外部资助提案，该提案有可能为继续在基于新技术的领域招聘工人铺平道路，这些领域从陷入困境的汽车业多元化发展。这项提议将在过渡到独立终身教职教师地位的研究人员和一个专注于减少儿科健康差距的部门(“核心中心”)之间产生协同作用，以在基于技术的行为干预领域推动健康差距领域，以改善少数族裔青少年和年轻人的哮喘管理。 这项提议将在过渡到独立终身教职教师地位的研究人员和一个专注于减少儿科健康差距的部门(“核心中心”)之间产生协同作用，将健康差距转移到基于技术的行为干预领域，以改善少数族裔青少年和年轻人的哮喘管理。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Pediatric Prevention Research Center, a Division of the Department of Pediatrics at Wayne State University (WSU), is a multidsicplinary group of faculty with a focus on behavioral interventions to reduce pediatric health disparities nationally and internationally. These efforts have included a focus on NHLBI diseases such as obesity and asthma in African American youth. Asthma exerts a high toll on minority children living in inner-city communities, especially adolescents. African-American adolescents not only have higher rates of asthma, but also experience more emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and fatalities from asthma than Caucasian adolescents. One factor that can account for mortality/morbidity in pediatric asthma is poor asthma management. Recently, several faculty have utilized technology to develop behavioral interventions to improve illness management for youth with HIV and diabetes. This RFA will allow Dr. Karen Kolmodin to transition to independent faculty status by September 1 with a focus on expanding technology based behavioral interventions to youth with asthma. This RFA fills a critical need to train the next generation of pediatric health disparity researchers. WSU is in a unique position to fill this need as we are located in Detroit, a city with the highest percentage of African Americans of major U.S. city (Census, 2000). The proposal has the potential to pave the way for continued hiring of workers in new technology based areas that are diversified from the beleaguered automotive industry as pilot projects give way to larger extramurally funded proposals. This proposal will create a synergy between a researcher transitioning to independent tenure-track faculty status and a division focused on reducing pediatric health disparities ("CORE CENTER") to move the health disparities field fonward in the area of technology-based behavioral interventions to improve asthma management among minority adolescents and young adults. This proposal will create a synergy between a researcher transitioning to independent tenure-track faculty status and a division focused on reducing pediatric health disparities ("CORE CENTER") to move the health disparities field fon/vard in the area of technology-based behavioral interventions to improve asthma management among minority adolescents and young adults.