Overcoming the triple threat to diversity in the health science workforce: empowering the next gen.

克服健康科学劳动力多样性的三重威胁：赋予下一代权力。

基本信息

批准号：
10506748
负责人：
Shine Chang
金额：
$ 37.35万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-08-15 至 2027-05-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10506748
关键词：
Academic achievement Achievement Address African American population Alaska Native American Indians Anxiety Area Awareness Behavior Behavioral Belief Biomedical Research Black American Career Choice Categories Color Competence Control Groups Coping Skills Country Demographic Factors Development Educational process of instructing Educational workshop Environment Expectancy Feeling Fostering Fright Funding Goals Grant Growth Health Sciences Hispanic Populations Hour Institution Intelligence Intervention Latino Population Lead Learning Link Measures Mentors Mentorship Minority Groups Modeling Motivation National Institute of General Medical Sciences Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Outcome Postdoctoral Fellow Randomized Reporting Research Research Design Research Personnel Research Training Resources Science Scientist Self Efficacy Shapes Site Student Persistence Students Testing Time Time Management Training Training Programs Underrepresented Minority Underrepresented Populations United States National Institutes of Health Work active control career demographics disadvantaged background disadvantaged student doctoral student educational atmosphere empowered environmental change expectation experience improved innovation interest minority trainee multilevel analysis perceived discrimination post intervention psychosocial recruit retention rate skills study population success therapy design tool underrepresented minority student virtual

项目摘要

Interventions to enhance the pool of underrepresented minority (URM) groups in the research workforce, including Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, and students from disadvantaged backgrounds are needed to sustain the training and transition into research careers for these groups. In the proposed project, we will address and mitigate three career threats for biomedical and behavioral researchers-in-training (the “Triple Threat”)— perceived discrimination, fixed ability mindset, and impostor feelings —that may harm trainees’ career motivation and retention, via interventions aimed at trainees and their mentors. A key aspect of our project is that we not only address the Triple Threat in trainees, but also address the Triple Threat in their mentors, who critically shape the environment in which the trainees learn and work. Both interventions will involve <3.5 hour synchronous and interactive virtual workshops that introduce the Triple Threat, provide example strategies that trainees/mentors can use to mitigate the Triple Threat, and have trainees/mentors adapt strategies and/or generate new strategies that they can consistently use over time. We will recruit 140 mentors (and 420 of their trainees) with the help of Site Partners from six leading institutions around the country. Trainees and mentors will be cluster randomized to either treatment (Triple Threat Intervention) or active control group, and will take measures of key variables pre- and post-intervention, and annually until funding ends. These key measures include, for trainees, their experiences of the Triple Threat, career threat coping skills, career motivation (research self-efficacy, scientist identity, expectancy beliefs, and values), and career outcomes (intentions and steps taken to pursue research paths, behaviors/products); and, for mentors, their awareness of the Triple Threat and use of specific strategies (both inclusive and supportive) to mitigate it. Using multilevel modeling, growth models, multigroup SEM, and repeated measures MANOVA, we will evaluate the effects of the two interventions on short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes, and whether the interventions have stronger effects for URM trainees. We expect to find, in line with theoretical predictions, that trainees who receive the intervention will report decreased experience of the Triple Threat, and increased coping skills, career motivation, and career outcomes, compared to trainees in the control condition; that mentors who receive the intervention will report stronger engagement in behaviors/practices to mitigate the Triple Threat than mentors in the control condition; and that trainees who receive the intervention and who also have mentors who received the intervention will experience the most positive outcomes. We also expect that the intervention may be most beneficial to URM students, as well as students from multiple URM categories. These interventions, designed to be scalable and adaptable, will be taught to be delivered by training program directors at our Site Partner institutions, enhancing intervention sustainability and dissemination over time.

采取干预措施，增加研究队伍中代表性不足的少数群体（URM）的数量，包括黑人或非裔美国人、西班牙裔或拉丁裔、美洲印第安人或阿拉斯加原住民、原住民夏威夷人和其他太平洋岛民以及来自弱势背景的学生需要维持在拟议的项目中，我们将解决这些群体的培训和过渡到研究职业的问题。减轻生物医学和行为研究人员的三种职业威胁（“三重威胁”）—— 感知到的歧视、固定能力心态和冒名顶替的感觉——可能会损害学员的职业生涯我们项目的一个关键方面是通过针对学员及其导师的干预来提高动力和保留率。我们不仅要解决学员中的三重威胁，还要解决他们导师中的三重威胁，他们批判性地塑造受训者学习和工作的环境，这两种干预措施都将花费不到 3.5 小时。介绍三重威胁的同步和交互式虚拟研讨会，示例策略受训者/导师可以用来减轻三重威胁，并让受训者/导师调整策略和/或我们将招募 140 名导师（以及他们的 420 名导师）。在来自全国六家领先机构的培训生和导师的现场合作伙伴的帮助下。将被随机分为治疗组（三重威胁干预）或积极对照组，并将采取干预前和干预后的关键变量的测量，以及每年直至资助结束这些关键测量。对于学员来说，包括他们的三重威胁经历、职业威胁应对技巧、职业动机（研究自我效能、科学家身份、期望信念和价值观）和职业成果（意图和为追求研究路径、行为/产品而采取的步骤）；以及对于导师来说，他们对三重的认识；威胁和使用特定策略（包括包容性和支持性）来缓解威胁使用多级建模，增长模型、多组SEM和重复测量MANOVA，我们将评估两者的效果干预措施对短期、中期和长期结果的影响，以及干预措施是否具有更强的效果对于 URM 学员，我们期望找到符合理论预测的学员。干预将报告三重威胁的经历减少，应对技能、职业生涯增加与接受指导的受训者相比，他们的动机和职业成果；干预将报告比导师更积极地参与减轻三重威胁的行为/实践在控制条件下；接受干预的受训者也有导师接受干预后将获得最积极的结果。这些干预措施对 URM 学生以及来自多个 URM 类别的学生最有利。旨在具有可扩展性和适应性，将由我们网站的培训项目主管进行授课合作机构，随着时间的推移增强干预措施的可持续性和传播。