This comprehensive Center grant application (P60), submitted in response to RFA MD-03-003, """"""""Project EXPORT,"""""""" will promote high quality, culturally competent, theoretically sound, and programmatically relevant research through a series of projects that promise to shed important light on the barriers as well as facilitators to improved health status and functioning of Amedcan Indians and Alaska Natives. This new, explicitly focused center, through its synergistic relationship with the American Indian and Alaska Native Programs (AIANP) at the UCHSC and our larger network of organizations/institutions serving AlAN populations will significantly increase both the extent of as well as subsequent capacity for health disparities research undertaken by American Indian/Alaska Native investigators, focused on a racial minority population among the most in need. Towards these ends, the specific aims are to: 1). Provide an administrative structure that promotes excellence in research and research capacity-building specific to improving the health and well-being of American Indian and Alaska Native communities. 2) Plan and carry out an interdisciplinary, culturally grounded, problem-oriented research program of major scientific and programmatic importance to the health status and functioning of American Indians and Alaska Natives, with particular emphasis on quality of diabetic care for AI youth; telepsychiatry; documenting obesity among At infants and children; cancer; chlamydia screening with AI males; increasing fitness among urban AlAN youth; smoking cessation; understanding of the performance properties of a widely used health quality measure, and assessing/improving the quality of mental health care for AI children 3) Structure and pursue career development opportunities for American Indian and Alaska Native investigators through intensive mentorship within the applied health disparities research program described herein. 4) Disseminate the results of this work as a means of guiding the design, conduct, and interpretation of future research specific to understanding and reducing the health disparities that plague American Indian and Alaska Native communities. 5) Assist individuals, provider organizations, and other institutions of higher education in planning and implementing similar health research and in maximizing the relevance of its outcomes for application in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
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| Dillard, Denise A; Caindec, Karen; Dirks, Lisa G et al. (2018) Challenges in Engaging and Disseminating Health Research Results Among Alaska Native and American Indian People in Southcentral Alaska. Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res 25:3-18 |
| Beans, Julie A; Hiratsuka, Vanessa Y; Apok, Charlene R et al. (2018) Community Dissemination in a Tribal Health Setting: A Pharmacogenetics Case Study. Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res 25:80-94 |
| Dirks, Lisa G; Avey, Jaedon P; Hiratsuka, Vanessa Y et al. (2018) Disseminating the Results of a Depression Management Study in an Urban Alaska Native Health Care System. Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res 25:62-79 |
| Hiratsuka, Vanessa Y; Beans, Julie A; Dirks, Lisa G et al. (2018) Alaska Native Health Research Forum: Perspectives on disseminating research findings. Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res 25:30-41 |
| Running Bear, Ursula; Croy, Calvin D; Kaufman, Carol E et al. (2018) The relationship of five boarding school experiences and physical health status among Northern Plains Tribes. Qual Life Res 27:153-157 |
| Hiratsuka, Vanessa Y; Avey, Jaedon P; Beans, Julie A et al. (2018) Approach and Methods of the 2016 Alaska Native Research Forum. Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res 25:19-29 |
| Bear, Ursula Running; Garroutte, Eva Marie; Beals, Janette et al. (2018) Spirituality and mental health status among Northern Plain tribes. Ment Health Relig Cult 21:274-287 |
| Bear, Ursula Running; Beals, Janette; Kaufman, Carol E et al. (2018) Boarding School Attendance and Physical Health Status of Northern Plains Tribes. Appl Res Qual Life 13:633-645 |
| Sawchuk, Craig N; Roy-Byrne, Peter; Noonan, Carolyn et al. (2017) Panic attacks and panic disorder in the American Indian community. J Anxiety Disord 48:6-12 |
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