Addressing Health Disparities among Oklahoma Minority and Rural Communities through Clinical Research Education and Career Development

通过临床研究教育和职业发展解决俄克拉荷马州少数民族和农村社区之间的健康差异

• 批准号: 9340335
• 负责人: Courtney Wayne Houchen
• 金额: $ 53.79万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-24 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9340335
• 关键词: Address; Affect; African American; Age; Alaska Native; American Indians; Area; Basic Science; Biometry; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular system; Chronic; Cities; Clinical; Clinical Investigator; Clinical Research; Clinical Sciences; Communities; Competence; Complex; Cultural Sensitivity; Death Rate; Degree program; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Disease; Educational Curriculum; Epidemiology; Goals; Health; Health Sciences; Health Services; Health Status; Hispanics; Human; Information Dissemination; Intervention; Malignant Neoplasms; Master of Science; Mentors; Minority; Mission; Native Americans; Not Hispanic or Latino; Oklahoma; Outcome; Participant; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Poverty; Process; Program Development; Program Evaluation; Qualitative Methods; Qualitative Research; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Respondent; Rheumatism; Rural; Rural Community; Rural Population; Scientist; Students; Training; Training Programs; Training Support; Translational Research; United States; Universities; base; career; career development; clinical candidate; cohort; community based participatory research; cultural competence; early-career faculty; education planning; education research; experience; health care service; health disparity; improved; intervention program; minority communities; minority investigator; minority trainee; multidisciplinary; population health; program dissemination; programs; skill acquisition; skills; statistics; tribal Nation

PROJECT SUMMARY A critical mass of clinical researchers is needed to reduce health disparities affecting minority and underserved communities. The health status of Oklahomans is far below the United States average for many metrics, consistently ranking as one of the five states with the worst overall health. Furthermore, chronic health conditions disproportionately affect minority and underserved communities in the state. Clinical researchers require training, and practical research experiences, in population health, epidemiology, quantitative and qualitative research methods, cultural sensitivity, and community-based participatory research methods in order to form effective partnerships with communities to address health needs. The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), with its long-standing mission to educate a diverse body of students at the professional and graduate levels to become highly qualified health services practitioners, educators, and research scientists, is uniquely poised to address health disparities among Native American, Hispanic, African American, and rural populations in Oklahoma by enhancing the training programs and research career development programs for clinical investigators, specifically minority and underrepresented investigators. Furthermore, a critical mass of senior investigators with extensive mentoring experience and a diverse portfolio of health disparities research projects is available to mentor the cohort of program participants. With an overall goal to enhance clinical research methods expertise and research careers among minority researchers, we will complete the following specific aims: (1)To enrich the existing Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Science degree curriculum to include expanded coursework in methods of qualitative research, community assessment and intervention, cultural sensitivity, and community-based participatory research with a focus on health disparities affecting minority and underserved communities, (2) To support and guide post-doctoral minority clinical and population health investigators in their development of independent research programs focused on cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, and rheumatic disease-related health disparities among minority and underserved communities through mentored research experiences, and (3) To expand the cadre of minority investigators who have research skills necessary to meaningfully engage with minority and underserved communities in health disparities research through dissemination of program components to improve the health of Oklahomans, tribal nation citizens, and communities with similar health challenges. The training programs will undergo ongoing program evaluation and revision to address the skill development needs of the researchers. The impact of this proposed project will be broadened through the dissemination of the resulting training and educational programs.

项目摘要 需要大量的临床研究人员来减少影响少数群体和服务不足的健康差异 社区。俄克拉荷马人的健康状况远低于许多指标的平均水平， 始终将整体健康状况最差的五个州之一排名。此外，慢性健康 条件不成比例地影响该州的少数民族和服务不足的社区。临床研究人员 需要培训和实践研究经验，人口健康，流行病学，定量和 定性研究方法，文化敏感性和基于社区的参与研究方法 为了与社区建立有效的伙伴关系以满足健康需求。俄克拉荷马大学 健康科学中心（OUHSC），其长期任务是教育各种各样的学生 专业和研究生级别成为高素质的卫生服务从业人员，教育工作者以及 研究科学家们有独特的准备解决美国原住民，西班牙裔，非洲人的健康差异 通过增强培训计划和研究职业，美国和俄克拉荷马州的农村人口 针对临床研究人员的开发计划，特别是少数群体和代表性不足的研究人员。 此外，拥有丰富的指导经验和多样化的投资组合的高级研究人员的重要批量 健康差异研究项目可用于指导计划参与者的队列。总体 为了增强少数族裔研究人员的临床研究方法专业知识和研究职业的目标，我们将 完成以下特定目的：（1）丰富现有的临床和翻译科学硕士 科学学位课程将在定性研究的方法中包括扩展的课程，社区 评估和干预，文化敏感性以及基于社区的参与性研究，重点 影响少数群体和服务不足社区的健康差异，（2）支持和指导博士后 少数民族临床和人口健康研究者在开发独立研究计划中 专注于心血管，癌症，糖尿病和风湿性疾病有关的健康差异 通过指导的研究经验和（3）扩大服务的社区，并扩大 少数族裔调查人员具有有意义地与少数群体互动的研究技能和 通过传播计划组件的健康差异研究中服务不足的社区 改善俄克拉荷马人，部落国家公民和具有类似健康挑战的社区的健康状况。这 培训计划将进行持续的计划评估和修订以解决技能发展 研究人员的需求。该拟议项目的影响将通过传播来扩大 由此产生的培训和教育计划。