Primary Care after Hospitalization for Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

描述(由申请人提供)：这份K24申请为初级教员和来自多个专业的临床研究员提供了一种指导经验，他们正在进行以患者为导向的儿科学研究。K24候选人是犹他大学重症监护科的流行病学家和儿科副教授，有资助创伤性脑损伤儿童预后的历史。这项提案的长期研究目标是改善因创伤性脑损伤而住院的儿童的初级保健。这一目标与国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所的使命有关，即确保儿童有机会过上健康和富有成效的生活，而不是残疾。这项研究的第一个具体目标是确定在儿童因创伤性脑损伤住院一年后，影响日常生活的学习、心理和执行功能缺陷的流行率。这一目标将会实现 从盐湖县招募了一批4至14岁的儿童。将对儿童进行纵向跟踪，并对父母报告的结果进行电话跟踪。主要结果将是优势和困难问卷。第二个研究目的是制定和实施一项全国儿科医生抽样调查，了解他们对这类儿童的治疗知识、态度和行为。将从美国医学协会主档案中随机招募活跃全科医生的儿科医生样本。本申请的培训目标包括定性方法、标尺的课程作业 发展和领导力。这组技能将使应聘者成为一名更成功的导师。拟议的指导计划利用了儿科系的一个项目，该项目旨在为准备撰写第一份外部拨款的初级教职员工提供高级指导。它为初级教员提供指导研究体验，使用建议的研究或在被指导者自己感兴趣的领域进行研究。这位候选人在流行病学方法和儿科学方面的背景使她有可能指导跨子专业的初级教员和研究员。总体计划充分利用提供给初级教员和研究员的资源。 在儿科和犹他大学。这些包括临床和转化科学中心的临床调查科学硕士(MSCI)，其K12项目，以及其生物统计学、调查设计、生物信息学和社区参与核心；许多初级教员获得K奖；研讨会，如研究进展；儿科拨款撰写研讨会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This K24 application proposes a mentoring experience for junior faculty and clinical fellows from multiple specialties who are performing patient-oriented research in pediatrics. The K24 candidate is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care at the University of Utah with a history o funding in the outcome of children with traumatic brain injury. This proposal's long-term research objective is to improve primary care for children who have been hospitalized for a traumatic brain injury. This goal is related to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's mission to ensure children have the opportunity to have healthy and productive lives free of disability. The first specific aim of the research is to ascertain the prevalence of academic, psychological, and executive function deficits that affect every day living among children one year after hospitalization for a traumatic brain injury. This aim will be accomplished by recruiting a cohort of children ages 4 to 14 years of age from Salt Lake County. Children will be followed longitudinally with telephone follow-up for parent reported outcomes. The primary outcome will be the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. The second research aim is to develop and implement a survey of a national sample of pediatricians about their knowledge, attitudes and behavior about treatment of this group of children. A random sample of pediatricians in active general practice will be recruited from the American Medical Association Masterfile. The training aims of this application include course work in qualitative methods, scale development, and leadership. This group of skills will make the candidate a more successful mentor. The proposed mentoring plan takes advantage of a Pediatrics Department program designed to provide senior mentoring to junior faculty who are preparing to write a first external grant. It offers junior faculty a mentored research experience using either the proposed research or research in the mentee's own area of interest. The candidate's background in epidemiologic methods and pediatrics makes it possible for her to mentor junior faculty and fellows across subspecialties. The overall plan capitalizes on the resources offered to junior faculty and fellows in the Department of Pediatrics and at the University of Utah. These include the Center for Clinical and Translational Science's Master's of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI), its K12 program, and its biostatistics, survey design, bioinformatics and community engagement cores; many junior faculty with K awards; seminars such as Research in Progress; and the Pediatrics grant writing workshops.