School Awarded $1.5 Million Grant by NIH

The School of Nursing & Dental Hygiene has been awarded $1.5 million for a five-year P20 Grant by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research for the “Center for ‘Ohana Self-Management for Chronic Illnesses Hawai‘i”.  Congratulations to Dr. Jillian Inouye, Principal Investigator, and Pilot Project Principal Investigators Drs. Margaret Nield, Anne Leake and Kathleen Sullivan.

The P-20 Exploratory Center for `Ohana Self-Management of Chronic Illness (COSMCI) will test the feasibility of established family and community focused self-management interventions in ethnically diverse populations with chronic illnesses.  The initial projects will use social learning theory as the framework for three conceptually linked projects; 1) self-efficacy and self-management for persons with symptomatic HIV disease; 2) kalusagan ay kayamanan (health is wealth) type 2 diabetes prevention in Filipinos; and 3) a breathing pattern retraining self-management intervention with an interactive telecommunication system for persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).