A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mentoring Interventions for Underrepresented Minorities.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of different mentoring interventions on the basic psychological need satisfaction of underrepresented minorities and women in academia.

Method

Participants were 150 mentor/protégé dyads from three academic medical centers and eight other colleges and universities in western and central New York, randomized from 2010 to 2013 into mentor training (using principles of self-determination theory); peer mentoring for protégés; mentor training and peer mentoring for protégés combined; or control/usual practice. Protégé participants were graduate students, fellows, and junior faculty who were from underrepresented groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, or disability.The primary analysis was a comparison of in

SUBMITTER: Lewis V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4925237 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature