Investigators from Novices, a Transdisciplinary Research Education Program to Increase Diversity (INTREPID) in Aging Research

新手研究人员，一项旨在增加衰老研究多样性的跨学科研究教育计划 (INTREPID)

• 批准号: 10625709
• 负责人: Norma Conner
• 金额: $ 39.85万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2028-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10625709
• 关键词: Active Learning; Address; Admission activity; Adult; Affective; Affinity; African American; Aging; Asian; Attitude; Biological Sciences; Black race; Cognitive; Communities; Data; Development; Disabled Persons; Disadvantaged; Discipline; Discipline of Nursing; Disease; Disparity; Disparity population; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Elderly; Engineering; Ensure; Environment; Ethnic Origin; Ethnic Population; Event; Faculty; Florida; Foundations; Funding; Gender; General Population; Goals; Graduate Education; Grant; Health; Health Disparities Research; Hispanic; Hispanic-serving Institution; Hospitals; Hour; Individual; Institution; Intervention; Knowledge; Learning; Life Cycle Stages; Longevity; Measures; Medicine; Mentors; Minority Groups; Modeling; Morbidity - disease rate; Narrative Medicine; Not Hispanic or Latino; Outcome Measure; Participant; Persons; Physical therapy; Population; Process; Psychology; Publications; Race; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; STEM field; STEM program; STEM student; Scholars Program; Science; Scientist; Shapes; Social Work; Socialization; Socioeconomic Status; Speed; Student Persistence; Students; Testing; Time; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; Universities; Woman; aged; aging and technology; career; cohort; college; computer science; demographics; disability; disadvantaged background; disadvantaged student; education research; experience; faculty mentor; hands on research; health disparity; higher education; improved; insight; mathematical sciences; member; minority investigator; mortality; patient engagement; programs; racial disparity; racial population; recruit; rehabilitation science; research study; scaffold; science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine; skills; social integration; success; summer institute; supportive environment; theories; therapy development; undergraduate student

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT To create a representative paradigm on aging, research participants need to include individuals from underrepresented populations. Overall, the percentage of the US population of adults aged 65 years and older is expected to nearly double by 2060 while those 85 years and older will almost triple in the same time frame. Similarly, the overall US population percentages, based upon race and ethnicity are expected to increase for people declaring only Black/African American, Hispanic, and Asian. Throughout the lifespan, differential health gaps and disparities by race and ethnicity are readily identified in the morbidity and mortality data for communicable and non-communicable diseases. To fully understand and address the complexities of aging among the growing minority population in the US, research studies need to determine the underlying mechanisms contributing to the identified health disparities, and test culturally appropriate interventions. One suggested solution to ensure these imperatives are met is to increase the numbers of minority researchers who engage in aging research. Researchers from underrepresented groups that share experiential similarities with study participants, improve the quantity and quality of research engagement by participants, and provide critical insight to more accurately shape an inclusive aging paradigm. However, MSTEM scientists are not racially or ethnically representative of the general population. In order to increase minority researchers in aging and to fully understand the complexities of aging among the growing minority population in the US, we propose an intervention tailored to support MSTEM students from racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, and women in biomedical disciplines with disproportionately low numbers of women. Investigators from Novices, a Transdisciplinary Research Education Program to Increase Diversity (INTREPID) in Aging Research will move the students toward engaging in aging research. Framed by Tinto's model on student persistence in college, INTREPID will provide MSTEM-students a supportive environment for their successful undergraduate completion, and pursuit of a graduate research degree. Curriculum based on the NIA Health Disparities Research Framework, offered over two summer institutes of 45 hours each will promote student affinity toward older adults and provide a foundation for their engagement in the research process. Faculty from the University of Central Florida's transdisciplinary Disability, Aging and Technology (DAT) Cluster will provide a mentor-mentee matched hands-on research experience that has linkages to the student's MSTEM major, and establishes and builds the student's identity as a scientist. The measurable outcomes of INTREPID aim to increase the number of underrepresented and disadvantaged students who, gain an identity as a scientist, complete their undergraduate MSTEM degrees, and advance to graduate research programs to prepare them to study health disparities in aging.

项目摘要/摘要 为了创建有关衰老的代表范式，研究参与者需要包括 人口不足。总体而言，美国成年人的年龄在65岁及以上的成年人人口的百分比 预计到2060年，预计将几乎翻一番，而在同一时间范围内，这85岁及以上的时间将几乎三倍。 同样，根据种族和种族，美国总人口百分比有望增加 人们只宣布黑人/非裔美国人，西班牙裔和亚洲人。在整个生命周期中，差异健康 种族和种族的差距和差异很容易在发病率和死亡率数据中确定 传染和非传染性疾病。充分理解和解决衰老的复杂性 在美国日益增长的少数群体中，研究需要确定基础 有助于确定的健康差异并测试适当的干预措施的机制。一 建议确保满足这些要求的解决方案是增加少数群体研究人员的数量 从事衰老研究的人。来自代表性不足的群体的研究人员共享经验性相似之处 与研究参与者一起，提高参与者研究参与的数量和质量，并提供 至关重要的洞察力，以更准确地塑造包容性的衰老范式。但是，系统科学家不是 一般人群的种族或种族代表。为了增加衰老的少数群体研究人员 为了充分了解美国日益增长的少数民族人口的复杂性，我们建议 量身定制的干预措施，以支持来自种族和族裔的学生，残疾人， 来自处境不利的背景的个人，以及在生物医学学科中的妇女 女性人数。来自跨学科研究教育计划新手的调查人员旨在增加 衰老研究中的多样性（勇敢）将使学生参与衰老研究。框架 Tinto关于大学学生在大学的持久性模型，Intrepid将为Mstudent提供支持 他们成功完成本科生的环境，并追求研究生研究学位。 基于NIA健康差异研究框架的课程，两家夏季研究所提供的课程 45小时每个将促进学生对老年人的亲和力，并为他们的参与提供基础 在研究过程中。佛罗里达大学跨学科残疾，老龄化和 Technology（DAT）集群将提供指导匹配的动手研究经验 与学生的学生专业的联系，并建立并建立了学生作为科学家的身份。这 勇敢的旨在增加代表性不足和处于不利地位的可衡量结果 获得科学家身份，完成本科生学位的学生，并晋升为 研究生研究计划，以准备研究衰老的健康差异。