Building End-of-Life Science through Positive Human Strengths and Traits

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请建议建立一个跨学科的生物医学核心，专注于重病患者的生活质量研究，包括那些生命即将结束的人。拟议的生物医学核心中心，通过积极的人类力量和特征建立生命终结科学（BEST），得到了一个强大的跨学科研究小组的支持，该小组由研究人员、临床医生和学术领袖组成，研究晚期疾病患者及其家属的生活质量。BEST中心将把姑息治疗研究的科学推向一个新的方向——一个范式的转变，它将解决积极心理特征的调查需求，这些特征对个人承受严重疾病的身体和情感威胁甚至成长的能力有最大的影响。BEST中心的目标是：(1)建立一个生物医学核心中心（BEST），专注于以下具体目标研究领域：评估和建立应对和管理严重疾病的人类优势（如习得乐观、自我效能、社会联系）的策略；(2)规范和协调教师和机构之间的非正式合作关系，以支持目标研究领域的研究项目；(3)招募和支持致力于目标领域调查的新教员。为此，最佳中心将分为三个核心：(a)执行核心；(b)外展及教育核心；以及(c)导师核心。该中心将扩大和加强护理学院的能力，研究积极心理学的研究成果在严重和限制生命的疾病患者群体中的应用，重点是改善所有领域的生活质量。除了创建一个组织结构来支持这项计划，我们还将招募和雇用三名新的教师，致力于开发针对这一人群的积极属性和/或生物相关性的研究项目。BEST中心是建立在一个跨学科的教师小组进行的相关研究基础上的，这些教师来自目前在内部教师合作中联系在一起的学科。在这个坚实的基础上，我们将继续促进与社区项目、临床实践环境和跨机构层面的现有关系的战略合作，以促进合作，分享与生命终结科学相关的研究专业知识和知识。对活动和里程碑的全面评估将有助于我们衡量我们的成功并促进BEST中心的可持续性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes establishment of an interdisciplinary biomedical core focused on quality of life research for seriously ill people, including those who are at the end of life. The proposed biomedical core center, Building End-of-Life Science through Positive Human Strengths and Traits (BEST), is supported by a strong interdisciplinary group of researchers, clinicians, and academic leaders In quality of life of patients with advanced Illness and their families. The BEST Center will move the science of palliative care research into a new direction- a paradigm shift that will address the need for investigations of the positive psychological traits that have the greatest influence on an individual's capacity to tolerate and even grow despite the physical and emotional threat of serious illness. The aims of the BEST Center are : (1) establish a Biomedical Core Center (BEST), focused on the following specific targeted area of research: strategies assessing and building on human strengths (such as learned optimism, self-efficacy, social connectedness) in coping with and managing serious illness; (2) formalize and coordinate current informal collaborative relationships among faculty and Institutions in order to support research projects in the targeted area of research; and (3) recruit and support new faculty committed to investigations in the targeted area. In order to do this, the BEST Center will be organized into three cores: (a) the Executive Core; (b) the Outreach and Education Core; and (c) the Mentorship Core. This Center will augment and enhance the capacity of the School of Nursing to investigate the application of findings from positive psychology in the population of patients with serious and life-limiting illness focusing on improving the quality of life in all domains. In addition to creating an organizational structure to support this Initiative, we will recruit and hire three new faculty committed to developing programs of research targeting positive attributes and /or biologic correlates in this population. The BEST Center Is founded on the related research conducted by an interdisciplinary group of faculty from disciplines currently linked in an internal faculty collaborative. Building on this strong base, we will continue to foster strategic collaborations with community programs, clinical practice settings, and existing relationships across institutional levels to promote collaboration and to share research expertise and knowledge related to end-of-life science. A thorough evaluation of the activities and milestones will assist us to measure our success and promote the sustainability of the BEST Center.