Studies of space-time activity patterns and fear in urban landscapes

描述(由申请者提供)：这项建议是为了设立一个为期5年的独立科学家奖(K02)，以追求伤害流行病学的重点研究议程。申请人是一项名为时空青少年风险研究(STARS，R01AA014944)的R01赠款的接受者。STARS是一项正在进行的以人群为基础的病例对照研究，对青少年(10-19岁)进行研究，以确定饮酒和靠近酒精销售点对被枪击或其他武器袭击的风险有何影响。K02申请的目的是完成对申请者当前R01拨款中的数据的新的研究分析，以及培训，以提高申请者从空间和时间(空间-时间)方面分析活动模式数据的现有技能。即将完成的研究将调查建筑环境(社交障碍、身体障碍和饮酒渠道)对青少年被攻击恐惧的影响，这似乎对健康有深远的负面影响，但由于研究这个问题的动力令人望而生畏，人们对此知之甚少。这一K02奖项将为研究人员提供必要的保护时间，以培养创造性的想法，补充他的培训，并在这一研究领域进行富有成效的研究。在获奖期结束时，他将成为伤害流行病学的独立科学家，并将取得几项重要进展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is for a 5-year Independent Scientist Award (K02) to pursue a focused research agenda in injury epidemiology. The applicant is the recipient of one R01 grant entitled the Space-Time Adolescent Risk Study (STARS, R01AA014944). The STARS is an ongoing population-based case-control study of adolescents (10-19 years) to determine how consuming alcohol and being near alcohol outlets affects the risk of being assaulted by gunshot or other weapon. The objective of this K02 application is to complete new research analyses of data from the applicant's current R01 grant as well as training to enhance the applicant's existing skills in analyzing activity pattern data with spatial and temporal (space-time) aspects. The studies that will be completed will investigator the impact of the built environment (social disorder, physical disorder, and alcohol outlets) on adolescents' fear of being assaulted, which appears to have profound negative effects on health but is very poorly understood given that the dynamics of studying this issue are daunting. This K02 award will provide the investigator the protected time needed to foster creative ideas and supplement his training and to be productive conducting research n this area of study. At the completion of the award period he will be firmly established as an independent scientist in injury epidemiology and will have made several important advances.