MHREG for Research in Ethnically Diverse Communities

描述（由申请人提供）：随着国家变得更加种族和民族多样化，需要新的研究和研究教育方法来减轻精神疾病的负担。情绪障碍是导致残疾的主要原因，也是导致死亡的重要因素，包括自杀死亡。黑人和拉丁美洲人情绪障碍的治疗需要创新的研究模式，以应对经济差异、文化介导的偏好和治疗期望，以及对有色人种造成不成比例影响的合并症，如药物滥用和医疗疾病。要应对这一科学和公共卫生挑战，就需要在临床科学家的教育方面进行创新。考虑到社区机构在新兴的大多数人的生活中发挥的核心作用，以及许多少数民族不愿在现有的专业精神卫生保健系统中寻求治疗，必须发展涉及大学和社区伙伴的新合作。罗切斯特差异教育研究与创新项目（Rochester PRIDE）是一个新颖的培训项目，旨在激励和培养学员与社区机构合作开展心理健康研究。在接下来的五年里，我们将1)加强我们与社区机构建立的研究培训伙伴关系，以促进学员的研究；2)在核心教学课程中招募和教育至少25名来自心理学和医学的学员，其中包括一个新的多学科研讨会，题为“城市环境中的种族、社会经济地位和健康”；3)实施一个创新的协作指导-训导项目，教受训者如何在社区环境中开展和实施研究；4)通过监测受训者的成果，并征求和审查外部评估者的反馈来评估PRIDE； 5)通过召开专题讨论会和发表同行评议的文章来传播我们的发现，这些文章描述了项目的设计、实施和结果。这个多学科的研究教育计划将对那些寻求在现实世界中进行研究的技能和知识的学员具有很高的吸引力。罗彻斯特PRIDE还将成为其他心理健康培训和教育项目的典范，这些项目旨在满足国家不断变化的公共健康需求。到奖励期结束时，我们将有足够的经验和数据来传播该计划的成果，并通过增加对儿童和青少年研究感兴趣的学员来扩大其范围。此外，我们还将考虑增加其他发展水平或其他学科的学员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As the nation becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, novel approaches to research and research education are needed to decrease the burden of mental illness. Mood disorders are a leading cause of disability and a powerful contributor to mortality, including deaths by suicide. Treatments for mood disorders among Blacks and Latinos require innovative research models responsive to economic disparities, culturally- mediated preferences and expectations of treatment, and the co-morbidities that disproportionately affect people of color such as substance misuse and medical illness. Meeting this scientific and public health challenge requires innovation in the education of clinical scientists. New collaborations involving university and community partners must be developed, given the central roles that community agencies play in the lives of the emerging majority, and the understandable reluctance of many ethnic minorities to seek treatment in the existing specialized mental health care delivery system. The Rochester Program of Research and Innovation in Disparities Education (Rochester PRIDE) is a novel training program designed to inspire and prepare trainees to conduct mental health research in partnership with community agencies. Over the next five years, we will 1) enhance our established research training partnerships with community agencies in a manner that facilitates trainee research, 2) recruit and educate at least 25 trainees from psychology and medicine in a core didactic curriculum that features a new, multidisciplinary seminar titled "Race, Socioeconomic Status and Health in the Urban Setting", 3) implement an innovative collaborative mentoring- precepting program that teaches trainees how to develop and implement research in community settings, 4) evaluate PRIDE by monitoring trainee outcomes and by soliciting and reviewing feedback from an external Evaluator, and 5) disseminate our findings by convening symposia and publishing peer-reviewed articles describing program design, implementation, and outcomes. This multidisciplinary research education program will be highly attractive to trainees who seek to gain skills and knowledge to conduct research in real-world settings. Rochester PRIDE will also serve as a model for other mental health training and educational programs designed to meet the nation's changing public health needs. By the end of the Award period, we will have sufficient experience and data to disseminate the program's findings and expand its scope by adding trainees interested in research on children and adolescents. As well, we will consider adding trainees at other developmental levels or from other disciplines.