Mentoring Diverse Students in Health Disparities Research

指导不同学生进行健康差异研究

• 批准号: 8260097
• 负责人: JOHN P. ELDER
• 金额: $ 37.76万
• 依托单位: SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-14 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8260097
• 关键词: Academia; Acculturation; Address; Advisory Committees; African American; Alaska Native; American; American Indians; Attention; Awareness; Behavioral; California; Caring; Chronic Disease; Communities; Community Health; Discrimination; Education; Ensure; Face; Faculty; Feedback; Financial Support; Generations; Goals; Growth; Hawaiian population; Health; Health Services Accessibility; Heterogeneity; Hispanics; Home environment; Individual; Institutes; Institution; Internships; Knowledge; Latino; Learning; Master of Public Health; Medical Research; Mentors; Methods; Mexican Americans; Minority; Minority Groups; Minority-Serving Institution; Participant; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Risk Factors; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Scientist; Series; Site; Social support; Socioeconomic Status; Students; Subgroup; Time; Training; Training Programs; Underserved Population; United States; Universities; Writing; behavioral health; career; career development; cohort; college; disorder risk; experience; graduate student; health care quality; health disparity; improved; insight; meetings; member; minority health; next generation; programs; research and development; research study; skills; success; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Given the heterogeneity of factors such as culture, acculturation, and socioeconomic status, there is a need for additional research on health disparities and shared protective and risk factors associated with chronic diseases specific to minority subgroups. However, there is an under-representation of minority researchers, scientists and university faculty in the US, which contributes to a limitation in insight among scientists seeking to understand and reverse the negative health disparities experienced by minority communities. It is thus crucial to train and develop minority students to conduct research that will reduce health disparities and at the same time provide students with opportunities to advance their skills in research, academics, and career pursuits to continue to contribute to reducing health disparities. As more minority students and other students underrepresented in research develop the skills to become researchers, there will be greater potential to diversify the workforce and promote culturally sensitive research that encourages the continued inclusion and participation of diverse groups in research studies. The proposed training program, entitled, "Mentoring Diverse Students in Health Disparities Research," will bring researchers accomplished in minority community health research together with undergraduate and graduate students to optimize their chances of research, academic and career success and advancement and prepare students to become the next generation of researchers who will be addressing health disparities. To advance the academic or career development of students, the proposed team will offer a Training and Mentoring Program (TMP) involving a series of educational trainings and mentoring by expert researchers, internship participation in community research, and special research projects focused on minority health and health disparities research. Two cohorts of twenty SDSU students each (30 undergraduate and 10 public health master's level graduate students total) who are underrepresented in health disparities research will participate in the two-year TMP. The ultimate goal of the program is to equip the students with the necessary research skills necessary to pursue higher level involvement in an academic or other career pursuit that contributes to reducing health disparities. The proposed TMP will be evaluated regularly to determine the overall relevance and value of the methods employed. Student and mentor feedback will be used to refine the program to best meet the needs of the participants. Further, portions of the program will be disseminated at its conclusion to allow others who are not able to attend to develop productive minority health research skills using aspects of the training. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: There is an under-representation of minorities conducting health disparities research in the US, which contributes to a narrowing of insights among scientists seeking to understand and reverse the negative health disparities experienced by minority communities. Therefore, this training and mentoring program will fulfill a great need by training and developing undergraduate and graduate students underrepresented in research to develop research skills to contribute to the reduction in health disparities and therefore increase minority community members' access to culturally competent health information and care.

描述（由申请人提供）：鉴于诸如文化，适应和社会经济地位等因素的异质性，需要对健康差异以及与少数群体特有的慢性疾病相关的共同保护和危险因素进行更多研究。但是，美国的少数群体研究人员，科学家和大学教师的代表性不足，这有助于局限于寻求理解和扭转少数民族社区所经历的负面健康差异的科学家之间的洞察力。因此，培训和发展少数族裔学生进行研究至关重要，以减少健康差异，同时为学生提供提高他们在研究，学术界和职业追求方面的技能的机会，以继续为降低健康差异做出贡献。随着越来越多的少数族裔学生和其他学生人数不足在研究中发展成为研究人员的技能，将有更大的潜力来使劳动力多样化并促进对文化敏感的研究，从而鼓励各种群体在研究研究中的持续包容和参与。 拟议的培训计划题为“指导多元化的健康差异研究学生”，将使研究人员与本科生和研究生一起在少数民族社区健康研究中成就，以优化他们的研究，学术和职业成功和进步的机会，并使学生成为下一代研究人员，他们将解决健康的健康差异。为了促进学生的学术或职业发展，拟议的团队将提供培训和指导计划（TMP），涉及一系列的教育培训和专家研究人员的指导，实习参与社区研究以及专注于少数群体健康和健康差异研究的特殊研究项目。两名二十名SDSU学生的队列（30名本科生和10名公共卫生硕士学位研究生总数）在健康差异研究中的人数不足，将参加为期两年的TMP。 该计划的最终目标是为学生提供必要的研究技能，以提高参与学术或其他职业追求，这有助于减少健康差异。提出的TMP将定期评估，以确定所采用方法的总体相关性和价值。学生和导师反馈将用于完善该计划，以最佳满足参与者的需求。此外，该计划的一部分将在其结论中进行分散，以允许其他无法参加培训方面发展生产少数族裔健康研究技能的人。 公共卫生相关性：在美国进行健康差异研究的少数群体的代表性不足，这有助于缩小寻求理解和扭转少数民族社区所经历的负面健康差异的科学家之间的见解。因此，该培训和指导计划将通过培训和发展本科生和研究生在研究方面的代表性不足，以发展研究技能，以促进健康差异的降低，从而增加少数民族社区成员获得具有文化能力的健康信息和护理的机会。