BEHAVIORAL MEASUREMENT CORE

行为测量核心

• 批准号: 8896485
• 负责人: STANTON L. GERSON
• 金额: $ 9.32万
• 依托单位: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8896485
• 关键词: Applications Grants; Award; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Cancer Center; Cancer Center Support Grant; Charge; Clinic; Clinical; Complex; Comprehensive Cancer Center; Consultations; Core Facility; Data Analyses; Development; Device or Instrument Development; Faculty; Fees; Funding; Grant; Grant Review; Hospitals; Instruction; Laboratories; Manuscripts; Measurement; Measures; Medical Research; Medical center; Methods; Ohio; Patients; Population; Population Control; Preparation; Prevention; Prevention program; Preventive Intervention; Psychometrics; Published Comment; Qualitative Methods; Quality of life; Reporting; Research; Research Design; Research Infrastructure; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Sample Size; Scientist; Services; Speed; Staging; Testing; Translations; Universities; University Hospitals; Work; anticancer research; base; behavior measurement; behavioral construct; bench to bedside; cancer therapy; design; expectation; instrument; interdisciplinary collaboration; member; method development; population based; prevention clinical trial; programs; protocol development; theories

PROJECT SUMMARY (See Instructions): The Behavioral Measurement Core provides support to members of the Case CCC for study design and protocol development for studies involving behavioral measures, selection of existing measures or new instrument design, data analysis, manuscript preparation and review, and grant application development and review. Case CCC members from the Prevention Program primarily utilize the Core services. The Core supports clinical, prevention and other cancer research by assisting investigators in behavioral research methods including identifying or adapting existing measures of behavioral constructs, or when needed, developing new measures to fit investigator research questions and hypotheses. Parallel to designing a study with sufficient sample size and power to test associations, careful selection of the most reliable and valid measures can impact the ability to adequately evaluate the study hypotheses. Qualitative methods are often used in the early stages of measurement to guide understanding and define complex phenomena prior to developing a new measure. The Core is an important asset to investigators of the Cancer Center who conduct behavioral and population based research. It has enabled the development of the Center's research themes in prevention, population and control research. It has also opened up options for greater inclusion of patient report measures, such as quality of life, in treatment and prevention clinical trials. The Core's support of mixed methods, multilevel study designs and modern measurement theory creates a strategic advantage for investigators and is responsive to new developments and methods expectations in recent NCI initiatives. The Core creates an infrastructure for increasing transdisciplinary collaboration within and across Cancer Center programs. The incorporation of behavioral measures into ROI applications and the inclusion of psychometric and statistical analysis of ongoing funded studies also are indicative of the value added to the Cancer Center.

项目摘要（请参阅说明）：行为测量核心为CCC的成员提供了支持，用于研究设计和协议开发涉及行为度量，选择现有措施或新仪器设计，数据分析，手稿准备和审查以及授予应用程序开发和审查的研究。预防计划的CCC成员主要利用核心服务。该核心通过协助研究人员采用行为研究方法来支持临床，预防和其他癌症研究，包括识别或调整现有的行为结构措施，或者在需要时制定新的措施，以适应研究人员的研究问题和假设。平行于设计具有足够样本量和能力来测试关联的研究，仔细选择最可靠和有效的措施可以影响充分评估研究假设的能力。定性方法通常在测量的早期阶段使用，以指导理解和定义复杂现象，然后再开发新的措施。核心是进行基于行为和人群研究的癌症中心研究人员的重要资产。它使中心的预防，人口和控制研究的研究主题能够发展。它还为更多的患者报告措施（例如生活质量，在治疗和预防临床试验中）提供了选择。核心对混合方法，多层次研究设计和现代测量理论的支持为研究人员创造了战略优势，并且对最近的NCI计划中的新发展和方法的期望有回应。核心创建了一个基础设施，以增加癌症中心计划内部和跨学科的合作。将行为度量纳入ROI应用中，以及正在进行的资助研究的心理测量和统计分析的包含也表明了癌症中心添加的值。