Training in Developmental Science to Improve Child Health and Well-Being

发展科学培训以改善儿童健康和福祉

• 批准号: 9053509
• 负责人: Julie C Lumeng
• 金额: $ 26.87万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-01 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9053509
• 关键词: Child health care; Development; Personal Satisfaction; Science; Training; improved

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Childhood sets that stage for self-regulatory and decision making processes that shape health and well-being for a lifetime. Research is rapidly uncovering the fundamental principles and processes which govern how human beings perceive the environment, process information, make decisions, experience, express and regulate emotion, form and change attitudes, beliefs and values, and become and remain motivated to change behavior. Translation of these basic behavioral science findings to applied health problems and scalable interventions that improve health and well-being during the childhood years is a complex challenge. Achieving this goal requires knowledge in three critical domains: trajectories of child development and behavior and their biological underpinnings, parenting as a transactional process with roots in biology, and behavioral intervention implementation. We propose a training program that will supply a cadre of researchers fluent in the integration of these three domains of knowledge. We propose to support 4 post-doctoral fellows per year (2 MD fellows in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and 2 PhD psychologists). Each fellow will participate in a 2-year course of training that will provide them with knowledge and skills in (1) theories of development and behavior; (2) developmental science methodologies (e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging, functional near infrared spectroscopy, eye-tracking, and observational behavioral methodologies); (3) study design and statistical methodology; (4) translation of behavioral research findings to intervention; (5) presentation skills; (6) critical assessment of the scientific literature; (7) socialization into the profession by seeking consultation and advice; (8) grant preparation and peer review; (9) career planning; and (10) ethical conduct of research. The training program will be based in the Department of Pediatrics in collaboration with the Center for Human Growth and Development (CHGD), an interdisciplinary research unit of the University of Michigan with a 50- year history of robust federal funding. CHGD includes 38 regular faculty members, all of whom hold joint appointments in academic departments, including Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology, Public Health (Health Behavior and Health Education, Environmental Health Sciences, and Epidemiology), Psychiatry, Social Work, Linguistics, Neurology, Psychology, Neonatology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Eighteen faculty with robust funding and mentoring histories are included in the current application. The training will draw on the rich resources at the University of Michigan, including the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program didactic series, the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. In summary, our training program will prepare leaders in the field of child development. They will be poised to make substantial contributions to improving health and well-being in childhood by integrating biology, behavior, and intervention science.

 描述（由申请人提供）：童年为塑造一生健康和福祉的自我调节和决策过程奠定了基础。研究正在迅速揭示控制人类如何感知环境、处理信息的基本原则和过程。做出决定、体验、表达和调节情绪，形成和改变态度、信仰和价值观，并成为并保持改变行为的动力，将这些基本行为科学发现转化为应用健康问题和可改善健康和福祉的可扩展干预措施。童年时期是实现这一目标需要三个关键领域的知识：儿童发展和行为的轨迹及其生物学基础、养育作为植根于生物学的交易过程以及行为干预的实施。我们提出了一个培训计划，该计划将提供一批精通该领域的研究人员。我们建议每年支持 4 名博士后研究员（2 名发育和行为儿科医学博士和 2 名心理学家博士）。为期 2 年的培训课程，将为他们提供以下方面的知识和技能：(1) 发育和行为理论；(2) 发育科学方法（例如功能性磁共振成像、功能性近红外光谱、眼球追踪和观察行为） (3) 研究设计和统计方法；(4) 将行为研究成果转化为干预措施；(6) 对科学文献进行批判性评估；(7) 通过寻求咨询和建议融入行业； 8）拨款准备和同行评审；(9) 职业规划；(10) 研究的道德行为将由儿科部门与跨学科研究单位人类成长与发展中心 (CHGD) 合作开展。密歇根大学的 CHGD 拥有 50 年强大的联邦资助历史，拥有 38 名正式教职人员，他们都在学术部门担任联合职务，包括发育和行为儿科、儿科内分泌学、公共卫生（健康行为）。目前的申请中包括精神病学、社会工作、语言学、神经学、心理学、新生儿学和妇产科的 18 名教师。 密歇根大学的资源，包括罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊临床学者计划教学系列、密歇根临床与健康研究所以及大学间政治与社会研究联盟社会研究定量方法暑期项目。我们的培训计划将培养儿童发展领域的领导者，他们将通过整合生物学、行为和干预科学，为改善儿童的健康和福祉做出重大贡献。