Appalachian Gerontology Experiences - Advancing Diversity in Aging Research

阿巴拉契亚老年学经验 - 促进老龄化研究的多样性

• 批准号: 10586104
• 负责人: Julie Marie Patrick
• 金额: $ 36.11万
• 依托单位: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10586104
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Aging; American; Appalachian Region; Area; Communities; Complex; Development; Discipline; Education; Environment; Faculty; Gerontology; Goals; Group Structure; Health; Health Disparities Research; Health Professional; Health behavior; Home; Income; Knowledge; Medical; Mentors; Morbidity - disease rate; Poverty; Psychiatric Social Work; Reduce health disparities; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Resources; Rest; Rural; Scholars Program; Science; Scientist; Societies; Structure; Students; Translational Research; Unemployment; United States; West Virginia; Work; Writing; cultural competence; experience; geographic barrier; hands on research; health disparity; health literacy; healthy aging; interest; mortality; programs; rural area; rural residence; scaffold; scientific literacy

Appalachian Gerontology Experiences: Advancing Diversity in Aging Research (AGE-ADAR) Specific Aims Appalachia is a predominantly rural area in which 25 million Americans reside. The region includes all of West Virginia and portions of 12 other states. Relative to the rest of the United States, West Virginian Appalachia is rugged and mountainous, which creates geographic barriers to medical and psychosocial services. Residents of the region also live with lower annual incomes, higher poverty, higher unemployment, and higher morbidity and mortality rates than other areas of the nation (Appalachian Regional Commission, 2017). Thus, it is a region marked by significant health disparities. Health disparities are more pronounced in the rural areas of Appalachia and are a complex result of health behaviors, personal resources, and macro-environmental influences. Although rural-dwelling adults have many of the same needs as adults aging in other environments, there are unique issues presented by a rural context. Thus, as we have argued elsewhere, aging is harder in rural areas (Hash, Jurkowski, & Krout, 2015). For many Appalachian residents, there is a strong sense of place-identity, with an historical mistrust of “outsiders” who often lack the cultural competence to address the nuances and complexities of Appalachian culture. Thus, what is needed is a cadre of health professionals and researchers who are well-versed in the science of aging, the science of health disparities, and the culture of Appalachia. To that end, we propose a highly-scaffolded education experience to increase interest in and diversity among researchers in aging and health disparities in Appalachia. The overarching goals of this project align with the goals of the NIA to increase interest in reducing health disparities and increasing the representation of historically underrepresented scholars in the fields of aging and health disparities research. To accomplish these goals, the proposed educational program would provide: focused educational content on research methods, aging, health disparities, Appalachia and other rural areas. The program would include structured, hands-on research experiences and mentored research experiences. We would nurture an appreciation for applied/translational research and community-based dissemination, thus increasing the health literacy and scientific literacy in the region. Together, these experiences would prepare scholars to infuse a healthy aging approach to their work. Specifically, the proposed program would: 1. provide culturally- and regionally-relevant educational content on aging, health disparities, Appalachia and other rural areas; 2. provide an intensive introduction to research methods, including completion of at least one structured group research experience focused on health disparities and a second mentored, health-related aging research experience with a faculty sponsor in the student's home discipline; 3. create and reinforce an identity of being an aging and health disparities researcher who will contribute to the research workforce in aging; 4. coach students on scientific writing and professional development; and 5. increase scientific and health literacy in the community through broad dissemination of research findings.

阿巴拉契亚老年医学经验：促进衰老研究的多样性 （年龄 - 阿达） 具体目标 阿巴拉契亚州是一个主要是农村地区，其中2500万美国人居住。该地区 包括西弗吉尼亚州和其他12个州的部分。相对于曼联的其余部分 州，西弗吉尼亚州的阿巴拉契亚崎 医疗和社会心理服务的障碍。该地区的居民也居住 年收入，更高的贫困，更高的失业率以及更高的发病率和死亡率 比美国其他地区（阿巴拉契亚地区委员会，2017年）。那是一个地区 以重大健康差异为特征。 在阿巴拉契亚的粗糙地区，健康差异更为明显，是一个复杂的 健康行为，个人资源和宏观环境影响的结果。虽然 粗糙的成年人在其他环境中与成年人衰老有许多相同的需求， 是由粗糙背景提出的独特问题。正如我们在其他地方所说的那样，衰老是 在农村地区更难（Hash，Jurkowski和Krout，2015年）。对于许多阿巴拉契亚居民 是一种强烈的地位认同感，对“局外人”的历史不信任，他们经常缺乏 解决阿巴拉契亚文化的细微差别和复杂性的文化能力。那， 需要的是卫生专业人员和研究人员的干部 衰老科学，健康差异科学和阿巴拉契亚的文化。为此 结局，我们提出了高度弱势的教育经验，以增加对多样性的兴趣和多样性 在阿巴拉契亚州衰老和健康差异的研究人员中。 该项目的总体目标符合NIA的目标，以增加对 减少健康分布并增加历史上代表性不足的代表 衰老和健康差异研究领域的学者。为了实现这些目标， 拟议的教育计划将提供：专注于研究的教育内容 方法，衰老，健康差异，阿巴拉契亚和其他粗糙区域。该程序会 包括结构化的动手研究经验和指导的研究经验。我们 会为应用/转化研究和基于社区的转化研究提供赞赏 传播，从而提高了该地区的健康素养和科学素养。 这些经验在一起将使学者们为健康的衰老方法提供准备 他们的工作。具体而言，拟议的计划将： 1。提供有关衰老，健康的文化和区域性教育内容 差异，阿巴拉契亚和其他粗糙地区； 2。提供有关研究方法的密集介绍，包括至少完成 一种重点是健康差异的结构化小组研究经验，第二个 在与健康相关的衰老研究经验中与教师赞助商 学生的家庭纪律； 3。创建和加强成为老龄化和健康差异研究人员的身份 将有助于衰老的研究人员； 4.教练科学写作和专业发展的学生；和 5。通过广泛传播社区的科学和健康素养 研究结果。