Abstract:Though the behavioural and social sciences have made substantive contributions to resilience-and-health-related research to date, that progress includes discrete resilience definitions that reflect academic disciplines, disease or wellness contexts, and the life course stages (e.g., childhood, adulthood, seniors) in which the studies were conducted (Infurna, 2021). These multiple conceptualizations are not in one accord; nevertheless, they share core elements (Infurna, 2021) that resonate with the NIH definiti… Show more
“…That multipronged, complementary approach includes prevention or mitigation of the risks, strengthening of the system towards resilience outcomes, and application of treatment regimens when/if needed (Figure 2). This special issue provides examples of the concept of resilience with respect to sleep and physical activity (Baumgartner, 2023;Guida et al, 2023); as well as behavioural and social processes of resilience across the life-course (Elwood et al, 2023). This special issue also explores resilience research in Military populations (McClung et al, 2023;Polusny & Erbes, 2023), both from the study design perspective and from an outcome's perspective.…”
Section: Application Of Resilience Research Framework Across Multiple...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This special issue provides examples of the concept of resilience with respect to sleep and physical activity (Baumgartner, 2023; Guida et al., 2023); as well as behavioural and social processes of resilience across the life‐course (Elwood et al., 2023). This special issue also explores resilience research in Military populations (McClung et al., 2023; Polusny & Erbes, 2023), both from the study design perspective and from an outcome's perspective.…”
Section: Application Of Resilience Research Framework Across Multiple...mentioning
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have recently gathered internal and external input towards a shared understanding of resilience in the wide context of human health and the biomedical sciences that would help accelerate advances in human health and its maintenance. This shared view is that resilience refers in general to a system's capacity to recover, grow, adapt, or resist perturbation from a challenge or stressor. Over time, a system's response to a challenge might show varied degrees of reactions that likely fluctuate in response to the type of challenge (internal and/or external), severity of the challenge, the length of time exposed to the challenge, other external factors and/or biological factors (innate and/or external). We have embarked on this special issue as an opportunity to explore commonalities amongst viewpoints on the science of resilience covered by the various NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) with respect to the characterization of various systems, stressors, outcomes measures and metrics, and interventions and/or protective factors that are shared within each domain and across multiple domains. Here, resilience is characterized broadly by four areas of scientific study: molecular/cellular, physiologic, psychosocial and spiritual, and environmental/community resilience. Each area or domain provides general frameworks for designing studies that may help advance the science of resilience within the context of health maintenance. This special issue will also acknowledge the remaining gaps that impede advancement of the science of resilience and offer considerations for potential next steps towards addressing the research gaps.
“…That multipronged, complementary approach includes prevention or mitigation of the risks, strengthening of the system towards resilience outcomes, and application of treatment regimens when/if needed (Figure 2). This special issue provides examples of the concept of resilience with respect to sleep and physical activity (Baumgartner, 2023;Guida et al, 2023); as well as behavioural and social processes of resilience across the life-course (Elwood et al, 2023). This special issue also explores resilience research in Military populations (McClung et al, 2023;Polusny & Erbes, 2023), both from the study design perspective and from an outcome's perspective.…”
Section: Application Of Resilience Research Framework Across Multiple...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This special issue provides examples of the concept of resilience with respect to sleep and physical activity (Baumgartner, 2023; Guida et al., 2023); as well as behavioural and social processes of resilience across the life‐course (Elwood et al., 2023). This special issue also explores resilience research in Military populations (McClung et al., 2023; Polusny & Erbes, 2023), both from the study design perspective and from an outcome's perspective.…”
Section: Application Of Resilience Research Framework Across Multiple...mentioning
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have recently gathered internal and external input towards a shared understanding of resilience in the wide context of human health and the biomedical sciences that would help accelerate advances in human health and its maintenance. This shared view is that resilience refers in general to a system's capacity to recover, grow, adapt, or resist perturbation from a challenge or stressor. Over time, a system's response to a challenge might show varied degrees of reactions that likely fluctuate in response to the type of challenge (internal and/or external), severity of the challenge, the length of time exposed to the challenge, other external factors and/or biological factors (innate and/or external). We have embarked on this special issue as an opportunity to explore commonalities amongst viewpoints on the science of resilience covered by the various NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) with respect to the characterization of various systems, stressors, outcomes measures and metrics, and interventions and/or protective factors that are shared within each domain and across multiple domains. Here, resilience is characterized broadly by four areas of scientific study: molecular/cellular, physiologic, psychosocial and spiritual, and environmental/community resilience. Each area or domain provides general frameworks for designing studies that may help advance the science of resilience within the context of health maintenance. This special issue will also acknowledge the remaining gaps that impede advancement of the science of resilience and offer considerations for potential next steps towards addressing the research gaps.
“…In general, resilience outcomes are dynamic, and some researchers suggest that biological time, with respect to resilience, is best considered as a nonlinear, helical concept (Varadhan, 2022). As such, the challenge for investigators is to design resilience studies with appropriate consideration of design elements that can capture or Several manuscripts in this Resilience Research Special Supplement acknowledge the challenges associated with identifying NIHfunded studies that meet the criteria for resilience research (Baumgartner et al, 2023;Elwood et al, 2023;Guida et al, 2023). This is, in part, due to two major misconceptions that hinder the advancement of the science of resilience.…”
Section: Research Gaps and Future Considerationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several manuscripts in this Resilience Research Special Supplement acknowledge the challenges associated with identifying NIH‐funded studies that meet the criteria for resilience research (Baumgartner et al., 2023; Elwood et al., 2023; Guida et al., 2023). This is, in part, due to two major misconceptions that hinder the advancement of the science of resilience.…”
Section: Research Gaps and Future Considerationsmentioning
The National Institutes of Health have recently gathered internal and external input towards a shared understanding of resilience in the wide context of human health and the biomedical sciences that would help accelerate advances in human health and its maintenance. We suggest the current view that resilience refers in general to a system's capacity to recover, grow, adapt, or resist perturbation from a challenge or stressor. To help harmonize the design and reporting of resilience research studies across multiple domains we have developed and are proposing a Resilience Research Design (ResD) Tool. Researchers can use the Resilience ResD Tool to proceed through a flowchart of six questions that will guide identification of key features in a resilience research study. Through this special supplement, we have shown the application of the Resilience ResD Tool and suggest opportunities and gaps with respect to next steps towards operationalizing resilience research.
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