Behavioral Research in Heart and Vascular Disease

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究培训计划的目标继续是对从事调查职业的个人进行博士前和博士后培训，旨在提高对与心血管健康、疾病、风险相关的行为机制的理解，并调查旨在预防或控制疾病和促进心血管健康状况改善的干预措施和社区合作关系。该计划的基本原理采用了一种模式，即学员早期接触教师导师和他们的研究，作为学员走向未来职业活动的社会化手段。学员从相关卫生专业，特别是医学、公共卫生、护理和卫生教育、行为科学、营养学、心理学、社会学、经济学、人类学和公共政策等学科中征聘。该计划旨在教育具有卫生专业背景的学员开展更多以行为为导向的研究，并教育具有行为科学背景的学员将其研究应用于心血管健康和疾病。这些互补的重点继续被视为建立必要的多学科研究人力基础，以解决与公众健康有关的心血管问题的重要因素。聘用教师是为了反映这种跨学科基础，并为受训人员的职业发展提供适当的榜样。该方案取得了成功，并继续致力于吸引高素质的少数民族学员，并进一步强调少数民族和妇女的心血管疾病和风险。该项目继续成为医学院、公共卫生学院和护理学院之间的一个强有力的合作项目。现有博士后100人，在读博士生58人，在读博士后7人，在读博士生1人。其中包括医学博士和博士学位，特别是行为科学和公共卫生专业。各种研究活动，如预防高血压的饮食和身体活动干预；以社区为基础减少心血管风险；以及少数民族人群的心血管风险；此外，还继续向受训人员提供设施。这个项目对公众的健康仍然很重要，因为它培训了未来的研究人员更好地理解、治疗和预防心脏和血管疾病及其相关风险。这些受训者开发的新知识及其应用将在全国范围内，特别是在服务不足的高风险少数群体中，改善高血压等问题的预防和控制。这个项目直接关系到公众的健康，因为它培训了未来的研究人员更好地理解、预防和治疗心脏和血管疾病及其相关的危险因素。因此，这些受训者开发的新知识对于解决我们的头号健康问题——心脏病非常重要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this Research Training Program continues to be the pre-and post-doctoral training of individuals for investigative careers directed at the improved understanding of behavioral mechanisms associated with cardiovascular health, illness, risk, and the investigation of interventions and community partnerships designed to prevent or control disease and promote enhancement of cardiovascular health status. The rationale of the program uses a model of early exposure of trainees to faculty mentors and their research as a means of socialization of trainees toward their future career activities. Trainees are recruited from the relevant health professions, in particular, Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, and disciplines which include Health Education, Behavioral Sciences, Nutrition, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, and Public Policy. The Program is designed to educate trainees with a background in the health professions to develop more behaviorally oriented research and trainees with a background in the behavioral sciences to apply their research to cardiovascular health and illness. These complementary emphases continue to be viewed as important to building the necessary multi-disciplinary research manpower base to address cardiovascular problems relevant to the heath of the public. The faculty have been recruited to reflect this interdisciplinary base and provide appropriate role models for trainee career development. The Program has been successful and remains committed to attracting highly qualified minority trainees and placing further emphasis on cardiovascular disease and risk in minorities and women. The Program continues to be a strong collaborative one between the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing. To date 100 postdoctoral and 58 pre-doctoral trainees have graduated with 7 current postdoctoral and 1 predoctoral trainees active. These include a mixture of individuals with MD's, PhD's, particularly in Behavioral Science and Public Health. A variety of research activities such as dietary and physical activity interventions to prevent high blood pressure; community-based cardiovascular risk reduction; and cardiovascular risk in minority populations; as well as facilities continue to be made available to trainees. This program continues to be significant for the health of the public, in its training of future investigators to understand, treat, and prevent heart and vascular diseases, and their associated risks, better. The new knowledge and its application, developed by these trainees, will improve the prevention and control of problems, such as hypertension, nationally, and in high risk underserved minority populations in particular. This program is directly relevant to the health of the public in its training of future investigators to understand, prevent and treat heart and vascular diseases and their associated risk factors better. Thus, this new knowledge, developed by these trainees, is important to addressing our number one health problem-heart disease