Behavioral Research in Heart and Vascular Disease

描述(由申请者提供)：该研究培训计划的目标仍然是为从事研究工作的个人提供博士后和博士后培训，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，以及调查旨在预防或控制疾病并促进提高心血管健康状况的干预措施和社区合作伙伴关系。该计划的基本原理是将受训者早期接触到教师导师和他们的研究作为受训者对未来职业活动的一种社会化手段。受训人员来自相关的卫生专业，特别是医学、公共卫生、护理，以及包括健康教育、行为科学、营养学、心理学、社会学、经济学、人类学和公共政策在内的学科。该计划旨在教育具有卫生专业背景的受训人员开发更多面向行为的研究，并教育具有行为科学背景的受训人员将其研究应用于心血管健康和疾病。这些相辅相成的重点对于建立必要的多学科研究人力基础以解决与公众健康相关的心血管问题仍然被视为重要的。招聘教员是为了反映这种跨学科的基础，并为实习生的职业发展提供适当的榜样。该方案已取得成功，并将继续致力于吸引高素质的少数族裔受训人员，并进一步强调少数族裔和妇女的心血管疾病和风险。该计划仍然是医学院、公共卫生学院和护理学院之间的一个强有力的合作项目。到目前为止，已有100名博士后和58名博士后实习生毕业，7名博士后和1名博士后实习生正在工作。这些人包括拥有医学博士和博士学位的人，特别是行为科学和公共卫生专业的人。继续向受训人员提供各种研究活动，例如预防高血压的饮食和体力活动干预；以社区为基础的减少心血管风险；以及少数群体的心血管风险；以及设施。这项计划继续对公众的健康具有重要意义，因为它培训了未来的调查人员，以更好地了解、治疗和预防心脏和血管疾病及其相关风险。这些受训人员开发的新知识及其应用将在全国范围内改善高血压等问题的预防和控制，特别是在服务不足的高危少数群体中。这项计划直接关系到公众的健康，因为它培训了未来的研究人员，以便更好地了解、预防和治疗心脏和血管疾病及其相关的风险因素。因此，这些受训人员开发的这一新知识对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