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Engagement and Mentorship of Undergraduate Students in Aging Research

Education and mentorship of undergraduate students extends beyond the classroom and clinical setting into research. This presentation will discuss the experience of the student and research mentor as well as provide findings from an important qualitative research study. Through a university funded g...

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Autores principales: Danner, Alyssa, Whitehouse, Christina, O’Connor, Melissa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7740573/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1783
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description Education and mentorship of undergraduate students extends beyond the classroom and clinical setting into research. This presentation will discuss the experience of the student and research mentor as well as provide findings from an important qualitative research study. Through a university funded grant, a student nurse partnered with faculty to investigate the needs and experience of caregivers of recently hospitalized older adults with diabetes. Caregivers play a vital role in caring for older adults, often they do not receive the education necessary to achieve optimal health outcomes. Qualitative interviews of 20 caregivers were conducted. The main themes that emerged from the data were: the role itself, challenges, preparation, and additional comorbid diagnoses. These findings provide an understanding of experience, tasks, and needs of caregivers for older adults with diabetes. This research experience provided exposure and education that is essential to developing future aging research scientists.
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spelling pubmed-77405732020-12-21 Engagement and Mentorship of Undergraduate Students in Aging Research Danner, Alyssa Whitehouse, Christina O’Connor, Melissa Innov Aging Abstracts Education and mentorship of undergraduate students extends beyond the classroom and clinical setting into research. This presentation will discuss the experience of the student and research mentor as well as provide findings from an important qualitative research study. Through a university funded grant, a student nurse partnered with faculty to investigate the needs and experience of caregivers of recently hospitalized older adults with diabetes. Caregivers play a vital role in caring for older adults, often they do not receive the education necessary to achieve optimal health outcomes. Qualitative interviews of 20 caregivers were conducted. The main themes that emerged from the data were: the role itself, challenges, preparation, and additional comorbid diagnoses. These findings provide an understanding of experience, tasks, and needs of caregivers for older adults with diabetes. This research experience provided exposure and education that is essential to developing future aging research scientists. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7740573/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1783 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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