Boston Roybal Center for Active Lifestyle Interventions

波士顿皇家积极生活方式干预中心

• 批准号: 8793928
• 负责人: MARGIE E LACHMAN
• 金额: $ 38.46万
• 依托单位: BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-30 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8793928
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Affect; Aging; Area; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Behavioral; Boston; Cognitive; Collaborations; Communities; Community Practice; Data; Elderly; Exercise; Faculty; Feeling; Funding; Goals; Grant; Guidelines; Health; Health Benefit; Health Promotion; Health Services; Health behavior change; Human; Human Resources; Independent Living; Informal Social Control; Institution; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Lead; Leadership; Life; Life Style; Link; Low income; Methods; Minority; Modeling; Monitor; Motivation; Office of Administrative Management; Outcome; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Physical activity; Pilot Projects; Process; Productivity; Psyche structure; Publications; Quality of life; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Self Efficacy; Social support; Solid; Source; Staging; Techniques; Testing; Translating; Translational Research; Translations; Underserved Population; Universities; Vulnerable Populations; Work; base; behavior change; behavior measurement; behavioral/social science; biobehavior; community organizations; community setting; cost effective; design; disability; evidence base; experience; healthy aging; high risk; improved; innovation; meetings; member; middle age; novel; peer; prevent; psychologic; psychosocial; sedentary; social; theories; therapy design

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the Boston Roybal Center (BRC) is to develop and test behavior change strategies to promote healthy aging, especially among adults at high risk for poor health outcomes. It is widely known that physical activity is broadly beneficial for physical, psychological, and cognitive aspects of health. However, the number of middle-aged and older adults who are regularly active remains low. The BRC will engage in the translation of research evidence to interventions that motivate and support sustained increases in physical activity. We selected the thematic focus: "Novel interventions exploiting the malleability or plasticity of biobehavioral risk mechanisms associated with adverse aging outcomes" to guide our work. The specific aims of the project are to: 1) Conduct innovative translational research consistent with the Center theme and based on solid research evidence from the social and behavioral sciences to increase physical activity in middle-aged and older adults; 2) Advance theory and empirical findings on behavior change processes and mechanisms that can be translated for use in intervention studies to promote healthy aging; 3) Facilitate innovative interdisciplinary work across five Boston-area institutions under the leadership of the Management and Administrative Core and the Pilot Core. The project includes a number of innovative mechanisms applied to our work. It recognizes the multiple influences on human behavior and applies a unique multicomponent model of behavior change utilizing social support and self-regulatory processes. It takes a personalized approach to behavior change with a focus on setting meaningful goals and promoting self-efficacy and positive affect. It will target underserved populations of middle-aged and elderly adults at risk for poor health outcomes. To facilitate this we will partner with community organizations serving vulnerable middle-aged and older adults to inform and benefit from the research and activities of the Center. It uses a common core of behavioral measures that will enable us to compare different pilot study interventions and continually enrich and expand the conceptual framework. The BRC has successfully engaged an interdisciplinary team of investigators who bring the extensive resources of five universities and multiple professional perspectives to the Center. Ultimately, we will use the information gained from the pilot projects to refine the techniques and will design and test full scale interventions designed to improve health and quality of life among middle-aged and older adults.

 描述（由适用提供）：波士顿皇家中心（BRC）的总体目标是制定和测试行为改变策略以促进健康衰老，尤其是在健康状况不佳的成年人中。众所周知，体育活动对健康的身体，心理和认知方面广泛有益。但是，经常活跃的中年和老年人的数量仍然很低。 BRC将将研究证据转化为动机和支持持续增加体育锻炼的干预措施。我们选择了主题焦点：“利用与不良老化结果相关的生物行为风险机制的锻造性或可塑性的新型干预措施”，以指导我们的工作。该项目的具体目的是：1）进行与中心主题一致的创新转化研究，并基于社会和行为科学的扎实研究证据，以增加中年和老年人的体育活动； 2）关于行为变化过程和机制的提前理论和经验发现，可以在干预研究中翻译以促进健康的衰老； 3）在管理层和行政核心和飞行员核心的领导下，促进五个波士顿地区机构的创新跨学科工作。该项目包括适用于我们工作的许多创新机制。它认识到对人类行为的多种影响，并采用了使用社会支持和自我调节过程的行为改变的独特多组分模型。它采用个性化的行为改变方法，重点是设定有意义的目标并促进自我效果和积极影响。它将针对服务不足的中年和老年人的人群，其健康状况不佳的风险。为了促进这一点，我们将与为脆弱的中年和老年人服务的社区组织合作，从中心的研究和活动中受益。它使用行为措施的共同核心，使我们能够比较不同的试点研究干预措施，并不断地丰富和扩展概念框架。 BRC成功地聘请了一个跨学科的调查员团队，他们将五所大学的广泛资源和多个专业观点带到了中心。最终，我们将使用从试点项目中获得的信息来完善这些技术并将设计 并测试旨在改善中年和老年人生活质量的全尺度干预措施。