Faculty to Enhance Technology-Based Adolescent Asthma Health Disparity Research

描述（由申请人提供）：儿科预防研究中心是韦恩州立大学（WSU）儿科系的一个部门，是一个多学科的教师小组，重点是行为干预，以减少国内和国际上的儿科健康差距。这些努力包括重点关注非裔美国青年的肥胖和哮喘等NHLBI疾病。哮喘对生活在市中心社区的少数民族儿童，特别是青少年造成了很大的影响。非洲裔美国青少年不仅有更高的哮喘发病率，而且比白人青少年经历更多的急诊室就诊，住院和哮喘死亡。一个可以解释儿童哮喘死亡率/发病率的因素是哮喘管理不善。最近，一些教师利用技术开发行为干预措施，以改善艾滋病毒和糖尿病青年的疾病管理。该RFA将允许Karen Kolmodin博士在9月1日之前过渡到独立教师身份，重点是将基于技术的行为干预扩展到患有哮喘的青少年。这种RFA填补了培养下一代儿科健康差异研究人员的迫切需求。华盛顿州立大学是在一个独特的位置，以满足这一需求，因为我们位于底特律，一个城市与美国主要城市的非洲裔美国人的比例最高（人口普查，2000年）。该提案有可能为继续在新技术领域雇用工人铺平道路，这些领域从陷入困境的汽车行业多样化，因为试点项目让位于更大的校外资助提案。该提案将在过渡到独立终身教职的研究人员与专注于减少儿科健康差异的部门（“核心中心”）之间产生协同作用，以将健康差异领域向前推进技术为基础的行为干预领域，以改善少数民族青少年和年轻人的哮喘管理。 该提案将在过渡到独立终身教职的研究人员与专注于减少儿科健康差异的部门（“核心中心”）之间产生协同作用，以在基于技术的行为干预领域推动健康差异领域，以改善少数民族青少年和年轻人的哮喘管理。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Pediatric Prevention Research Center, a Division of the Department of Pediatrics at Wayne State University (WSU), is a multidsicplinary group of faculty with a focus on behavioral interventions to reduce pediatric health disparities nationally and internationally. These efforts have included a focus on NHLBI diseases such as obesity and asthma in African American youth. Asthma exerts a high toll on minority children living in inner-city communities, especially adolescents. African-American adolescents not only have higher rates of asthma, but also experience more emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and fatalities from asthma than Caucasian adolescents. One factor that can account for mortality/morbidity in pediatric asthma is poor asthma management. Recently, several faculty have utilized technology to develop behavioral interventions to improve illness management for youth with HIV and diabetes. This RFA will allow Dr. Karen Kolmodin to transition to independent faculty status by September 1 with a focus on expanding technology based behavioral interventions to youth with asthma. This RFA fills a critical need to train the next generation of pediatric health disparity researchers. WSU is in a unique position to fill this need as we are located in Detroit, a city with the highest percentage of African Americans of major U.S. city (Census, 2000). The proposal has the potential to pave the way for continued hiring of workers in new technology based areas that are diversified from the beleaguered automotive industry as pilot projects give way to larger extramurally funded proposals. This proposal will create a synergy between a researcher transitioning to independent tenure-track faculty status and a division focused on reducing pediatric health disparities ("CORE CENTER") to move the health disparities field fonward in the area of technology-based behavioral interventions to improve asthma management among minority adolescents and young adults. This proposal will create a synergy between a researcher transitioning to independent tenure-track faculty status and a division focused on reducing pediatric health disparities ("CORE CENTER") to move the health disparities field fon/vard in the area of technology-based behavioral interventions to improve asthma management among minority adolescents and young adults.