Measurement Issues in U.S. Health Disparities Research

美国健康差异研究中的测量问题

• 批准号: 6317625
• 负责人: Anita L. Stewart
• 金额: $ 6万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-04-15 至 2003-04-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6317625
• 关键词: health care service availability; health care service utilization; health services research tag; measurement; medically underserved population; meeting /conference /symposium; psychometrics; sociology /anthropology; travel; workshop

A major goal of health disparities research is to identify mechanisms by which these disparities occur. Such research involves using measures of health and healthcare and of psychosocial, socioeconomic, occupational, and environmental factors. To conduct large studies that include multiple racial, the challenge for U.S. researchers is to understand how well measures developed in mainstream, well-educated samples are conceptually and psychometrically adequate when applied in these diverse U.S. population segments. Indeed, there is considerable evidence that many measures do not have comparable measurement properties across groups. We propose a workshop to advance the field of measurement in health disparities and cross-cultural research. The workshop was developed and will be chaired by the six measurement cores from the NIA-and NINR-sponsored Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research. A small group (12-14) of invited leading quantitative and qualitative measurement specialists and cross cultural researchers will convene in San Francisco for 1.5 days in May, 2001 to articulate the conceptual and measurement issues and to develop an agenda for this field of research. The invited experts and the RCMAR measurement core investigators will discuss: 1) how to raise awareness of the importance of such measurement studies, 2) priority areas and concepts for future measurement studies, 3) state-of-the-art qualitative and quantitative measurement methods to test the conceptual and psychometric adequacy of measures, and 4) ways to proceed in light on practical issues and constraints. Recommendations will be made as to how to proceed to assure consensus on the most critical issues to be discussed. The discussion and recommendations of the group will be published in Medical Care. Because this field of examining measurement equivalence in studies of health disparities in the U.S. is relatively new, having a group of experts discuss the issues and methods at this time, and prov ide guidelines and recommendations, can enable systematic approaches as health disparities research evolves.

健康差异研究的主要目标是确定发生这些差异的机制。 此类研究涉及使用健康和医疗保健以及社会心理，社会经济，职业和环境因素的措施。 为了进行包括多个种族的大型研究，美国研究人员面临的挑战是了解主流中发展的措施的良好，受过良好教育的样本在概念上和精神上足够时，在这些不同的美国人口细分中应用。 实际上，有大量证据表明，许多措施在整个组之间没有可比的测量特性。 我们提出了一个研讨会，以提高健康差异和跨文化研究的测量领域。 该研讨会是开发的，将由NIA和忍者赞助的少数民族老化研究中心的六个测量核心主持。 一小部分（12-14）（12-14）的领先定量和定性测量专家和跨文化研究人员将在2001年5月在旧金山召集1.5天，以阐明概念和测量问题，并为这一研究领域制定议程。 受邀的专家和RCMAR测量核心研究人员将讨论：1）如何提高人们对此类测量研究重要性的认识，2）优先领域和概念，用于未来的测量研究，3）最先进的定性和定量测量方法，以测试测量概念和心理的测量方法的概念和心理量，以及4）综合效果和综合问题。将提出有关如何继续就要讨论的最关键问题达成共识的建议。 该小组的讨论和建议将在医疗服务中发表。 因为在美国健康差异研究中检查测量等效性的这一领域是相对较新的，所以让一群专家讨论当时的问题和方法，以及随着健康差异研究的发展，可以实现系统的方法和建议。