Interventions for Preventing & Managing Chronic Illness

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究培训计划旨在培养博士前实习生和博士后，以开发和测试基于理论的预防和/或管理慢性疾病的干预措施。在美国，慢性病是主要的健康问题。为了被接受并产生预期效果，护理干预措施必须纳入与脆弱性和复原力相关的复杂因素，并适合少数民族/种族和其他可能经历健康差异的人群。针对这些人群的干预措施需要是多方面的，包括表征脆弱性和恢复力的变量，并考虑可以减少、改变或增强脆弱性和恢复力的因素。为了解决这一扩展的定义，我们将重点关注另外两个领域，家庭和生物标志物作为先决条件，并加强实习生和同事的研究经验和课程。项目领导将包括项目主任和两名联合主任。59名参与的教师将包括来自护理学院的21名核心教师，7名贡献教师和10名指导教师，以及来自北卡罗来纳大学教堂山校区的21名跨学科教师。对博士预科生的常规博士课程的改进将包括两门额外的必修课程和特定的推荐研究课程，更多的教师研究经验时间，以及更多的研究建议。对于博士后学员，该计划将包括必修课程，参与跨学科研究中心，与教师研究的经验，进行独立研究的机会，以及研究建议。所有人都将接受负责任的研究指导。研修生将分为博士（快速通道）、博士（硕士）、博士后等不同层次。每一级拟议的培训期限为两年。在5年资助期内，资助17-18名博士预科生和10名博士后。我们预计博士预科学员将在拟议的培训计划中参加前两年的护理博士学习之一，博士后研究员将是相对较新的护理或相关学科博士学位获得者（经验水平= 0-4）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed research training program is designed to prepare pre-doctoral trainees and postdoctoral fellows in the development and testing of theory-based interventions for preventing and/or managing chronic illness. Chronic illnesses are major health concerns in the United States. To be accepted and have the intended effects, nursing interventions must incorporate complex factors related to vulnerability and resilience, plus be appropriate for ethnic/racial minorities and other populations who can experience health disparities. Interventions for these populations need to be multifaceted, include variables that characterize vulnerability and resilience, and consider factors that can reduce, modify, or enhance vulnerability and resilience. In order to address this expanded definition, we will focus on two more areas, family and biomarkers as antecedents, and also enhance trainee and fellow research experience and coursework. The program leadership will include the Program Director and two co-directors. Fifty-nine (59) participating faculty will include 21 Core, seven Contributing and 10 Mentored faculty members from the School of Nursing, plus 21 Interdisciplinary faculty members from across the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. Enhancements to the usual doctoral program for pre-doctoral trainees will include two additional required courses plus specific recommended research courses, more hours of experience with faculty research, and augmented research advisement. For postdoctoral trainees, the program will include required coursework, involvement in an interdisciplinary research center, experience with faculty research, opportunities to conduct independent research, and research advisement. All will receive instruction in the responsible conduct of research. Trainees will be admitted at different levels including BSN-PhD (fast track), MS-PhD, and postdoctoral. The duration of the proposed training for each level will be two years. Over the requested five year funding period, we will support 17-18 pre-doctoral trainees and 10 postdoctoral fellows. We anticipate that the pre-doctoral trainees will be enrolled in one of the first two years of doctoral study in nursing during the proposed training program, and that postdoctoral fellows will be relatively recent recipients (level of experience = 0-4) of a doctorate in nursing or a related discipline.