早期调查人员与国家卫生研究院试点奖项计划的经验
Cyleste C Collins1, Jacqueline Dolata2, Elodie Nonguierma2
1School of Social Work, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Journal of clinical and translational science
|March 7, 2025
概括
这项研究发现,一个项目通过促进增长,社区支持,合作和指导,为健康差异研究的早期阶段调查人员 (ESI) 提供了发射平台,尽管挑战仍然存在.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生研究 公共卫生研究
- 健康差距 研究 研究 研究 研究
- 社区参与的研究
背景情况:
- 学术-社区研究伙伴关系解决健康和健康差异的社会决定因素显著增加.
- 早期研究人员 (ESI) 在社区合作研究中面临资金挑战和障碍.
- 在社区参与的研究中,对ESI的促进者和障碍的理解有限.
研究的目的:
- 检查ESI参与支持社区合作的试点健康差异研究计划的经验.
- 确定ESI在其研究职业和社区伙伴关系中遇到的促进者和障碍.
主要方法:
- 进行了深入的焦点小组,与来自五个试点调查人员队伍的十四个ESI进行了深入的焦点小组.
- 数据是在2020年4月至2024年2月期间收集的.
- 在两个审稿人独立识别和编码报价后,采用了主题分析.
主要成果:
- 该计划是ESI研究职业生涯的关键发射平台.
- 主要主题包括ESI增长和适应,社区和支持系统,协作和伙伴关系的价值,以及有效指导的需要.
- 该计划提供了大量支持和资源,但ESI和社区合作伙伴面临的挑战仍然存在.
结论:
- 未来的计划应提供量身定制的支持和战略,以减轻ESI在社区参与研究中的制度障碍.
- 加强指导对于支持ESI启动成功的研究职业生涯至关重要.
- 需要继续开发计划,以解决ESI在健康差异研究中的独特需求.
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