RESEARCH CORE

研究核心

• 批准号: 6098578
• 负责人: WALTER R ALLEN
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-09-30 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6098578
• 关键词: African American; aging; behavioral /social science research tag; biomedical facility; dementia; depression; education evaluation /planning; family structure /dynamics; health care service planning; health education; human subject; interview; psychometrics

The exploratory center grant seeks to develop a program of interventions to improve the health status of older African-Americans. In order to develop and evaluate interventions for older African-Americans, reliable and valid health status measures are needed. However, most measures of the health status of the elderly have not been developed for or tested among African-American populations. The research core of this exploratory center grant will coordinate the development and evaluation of measures that will be used to examine the effectiveness of the interventions designed to improve the health and independence of older African- Americans. We will build upon previous work in health status assessment, but tailor our assessment instruments to be most sensitive to older African-American individuals using focus groups and expert interviews. The health status measures will be pretested prior to the intervention studies and their psychometric properties thoroughly evaluated. Previously used measures will be supplemented by additional interview- based measures we develop and by measures of physical performance. The specific objectives of this exploratory center core grant are to: 1) develop health status and family function measures appropriate for use with elderly African-American individuals; 2) evaluate the psychometric performance of these measures including their acceptability, reliability, validity, and cross-cultural equivalence; and 3) develop screening measures for use by family members to identify early signs and symptoms of dementia and depression. 4) By carefully pilot-testing and analysis of the data, we will examine each method and select the most cost-effective without sacrificing data quality.

探索中心赠款旨在制定一项干预计划 来改善老年非裔美国人的健康状况 为了 为老年非裔美国人制定和评估干预措施， 需要有效的健康状况措施。然而，大多数措施， 老年人的健康状况还没有被开发或测试， 非裔美国人。 本探索性研究的核心是 中心赠款将协调措施的制定和评估 将用于检查干预措施的有效性， 旨在改善非洲老年人的健康和独立性， 美国人 我们将在以往健康状况评估工作的基础上， 但我们的评估工具要对老年人最敏感 非裔美国人使用焦点小组和专家访谈。 在干预之前，将对健康状况指标进行预测试 研究及其心理测量特性进行了全面评估。 以前使用的措施将通过额外的面谈加以补充- 基于我们开发的措施和物理性能的措施。 的 这一探索中心核心赠款的具体目标是： 1)制定适当的健康状况和家庭功能措施， 老年非裔美国人 2)评估这些措施的心理测量性能，包括其 可接受性、可靠性、有效性和跨文化等效性; 3)制定筛查措施，供家庭成员使用， 痴呆症和抑郁症的症状和体征。 4)通过仔细的试点测试和数据分析，我们将研究 每种方法，并选择最具成本效益，而不牺牲数据 质量.