Ethnic Group Differences in Mental Health Disparities

描述(由申请者提供)：我们建议在美国黑人研究计划中建立“心理健康差异中的种族群体差异博士后培训计划”，这是密歇根大学社会研究所内群体动力学研究中心的几个计划之一。拟议的培训计划将为全国年轻学者提供研究培训机会，特别是对种族和民族心理健康差异感兴趣的学者。这一培训和扩展指导方案被提议作为一种机制，以增加心理健康领域中不同族裔和种族的博士后学者的数量，研究与民族和种族群体之间的心理健康差异和精神障碍有关的问题；并为经过跨学科培训的新的少数族裔研究人员干部提供坚实的研究培训。根据最近发表的报告《对美国未来的投资：心理健康研究职业中的种族/民族多样性》，“培训种族/少数民族心理健康科学家对国家医疗保健的质量以及我们更广泛的国家经济福利至关重要”(国家心理健康研究所，2001，第6页)。这项拟议的博士后培训计划旨在应对这一重要挑战。使用美国国家生活调查(NSAL)(由NIMH资助的一项目前在该领域专注于非裔美国人和非加勒比人口的研究)和全国拉丁裔和亚裔美国人调查(由NIMH资助的专注于拉丁裔和亚裔人口的研究)作为基本培训工具，该计划将寻求在操纵、分析和发布这些具有广泛代表性的三个种族和民族群体的全国样本数据方面提供实践经验。具体地说，我们建议在五年内增加不同种族和民族的学者就与精神健康方面的种族/民族差距有关的问题进行研究的人数，并通过增加他们在精神健康学者中的代表性来丰富科学知识库。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to establish the "Ethnic Group Differences in Mental Health Disparities Postdoctoral Training Program" within the Program for Research on Black Americans, one of several programs in the Research Center for Group Dynamics situated within the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan. The proposed training program will provide research-training opportunities for young scholars nationally, with special emphasis on scholars interested in racial and ethnic mental health disparities. This training and extended mentoring program is proposed as a mechanism for increasing the numbers of ethnically and racially diverse postdoctoral scholars in the mental health fields conducting research on issues related to disparities in mental health and mental disorders among ethnic and racial groups; as well to provide a solid research training for a new cadre of minority researchers trained cross-disciplinarily. According to the recently, published report "An Investment in America's Future: Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Mental Health Research Careers , "training racial/ethnic minority mental health scientists is critical to the quality of the Nation's health care as well as to our broader national economic welfare" (National Institute of Mental Health, 2001, p. 6). This proposed postdoctoral training program aims to address this important challenge. Using the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) (a study funded by NIMH currently in the field focused on African American and Afro-Caribbean populations), and the National Latino and Asian American Survey (a study funded by NIMH focused on Latino and Asian populations) as the basic vehicles for training, the program would seek to provide hand-on experience in the manipulation, analysis, and publication of data from these broad representative national samples of the three racial and ethnic groups. Specifically, we propose over the five-year period to increase the number of racially and ethnically diverse scholars conducting research on issues related to racial/ethnic disparities in mental health as well as to enrich the scientific knowledge base through their increased representation among mental health scholars.