UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #638

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Submission Number: 638
Submission ID: 13566
Submission UUID: 11091cb1-760c-483a-a9a3-c78123448e01

Created: Thu, 04/18/2024 - 04:57 PM
Completed: Fri, 04/19/2024 - 08:33 AM
Changed: Fri, 04/19/2024 - 08:33 AM

Remote IP address: 73.118.33.203
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English

Is draft: No
Primary Research Mentor Name Amy L Ai
Research Mentor Preferred Pronouns SHE HER
When potential research assistants are reaching out via email, what is your preferred honorific? Dr. or Prof.
Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) amyai8@gmail.com
Position Title Faculty
FSU College (if applicable) Social Work
FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation Amy L. Ai
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Name of Other Faculty/Collaborator(s) (if applicable)
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Title of the Project The Role of Human Strengths in Cardiac Surgery Survival
Project Keywords Human Strengths, Virtue, Cardiac Diseases, Open-heart Surgery
Are you currently looking for research assistants? Yes
Number of Research Assistants Needed 4
Relevant Research Assistant Major(s) Premed, Psych, Nursing, Social Work, Gerontology, Sociology, and other majors related to health and mental health
Project Location: On FSU Main Campus
If the project location is off campus, does the research assistant(s) need to provide their own transportation?
Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s): Partially Remote
Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work? 4-8
Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work? Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
Overall Research Project Description This interdisciplinary study will evaluate long-term survival effects of psychological strength factors (e.g., spirituality, character strengths) in an PI’s (Ai’s) existing sample of older patients who underwent open-heart surgery (N=481, female 42%). It significance lies in several facts. Nearly 92.1 million American adults have some form of cardiovascular diseases that accounts for 1 of every 3 deaths in the US. Costly open-heart surgery is a life-saving/extending achievement in cardiac medicine but is also a stressful life event. Further, recent population students have shown health benefits of psychological strength factors in aging—health relevant areas, especially survival benefits of religiousness/ spirituality and character strengths, mostly in general populations. Yet, studies have rarely examined the survival benefit of psychological strength factors in clinical cardiac patients over a decade. Moreover, aligned with the World Health Organization’s concept of health with a whole-person’s view, a JAMA article posits that spiritual interconnection could inform future strategies for both public health and individualized, patient-centered care. It also noted that health providers have paid limited attention to such psychological strengths that can be an impetus for promoting healthy behaviors. Clearly, more clinical research is needed to provide robust evidence on potential protection of strength factors to advance this area of studies. The PI’s publications on this sample have showed the positive role of preoperative strength factors (e.g., optimism/ hope, sense of reverence in secular contexts, positive religious coping, using prayer for coping) in short-term recovery. Based on the literature in three interrelated areas (Spirituality, Aging, and Health, Positive Psychology and Health, and Psychological Resilience), the proposed study aims to address important unanswered questions.
Research Tasks literature review, format and other preparation for presentation and publications if engaging in dissemination.
Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Second year students preferred with capacity to perform AMA and APA style abstract database. Ability to conduct extensive search using multiple lib data base for literature. Creativity in designing posters at the professional level, not just UROP! Willingness to conduct tedious and seeming boring work as a testing process for cultivating scholarly qulities.
Mentoring Philosophy Hard working, quick response, precision, perfectionism, flexible hours, willing to take risk (failure) and learn from lessons. For example, many ex-UROP students joined me to present at national conferences and publications, the latter is a long shut that need persistent collaboration after UROP award but with major award for CV. It can be a pains-taking effort though,
Please provide a link to your publications, a video clip, or a website for your research project (if applicable): CV at college web
Please add any additional information here (if applicable): google scholar
Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication Yes
UROP Performance Evaluation Yes
Materials Grant Yes
UROP Poster Presentation Yes
Year 2024
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