CORE--BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES

核心——行为和社会研究

• 批准号: 6327585
• 负责人: LINDA H AIKEN
• 金额: $ 16.54万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-15 至 2001-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6327585
• 关键词: AIDS; behavioral /social science; behavioral /social science research tag; biomedical facility; health behavior; human immunodeficiency virus; social behavior

The Behavioral and Social Sciences Core provides a structure for organizing Penn's substantial research capacity in the behavioral and social sciences, and focusing those resources on HIV/AIDS-related research. The goal is to advance AIDS research by facilitating the inclusion of state-of-the-science theoretical and methodological contributions from behavioral and social sciences across the full spectrum of CFAR research. To that end the Core emphasizes A) outreach to the Philadelphia community, particularly to its minority populations, B) case finding to ensure the inclusion of women and minority subjects in CFAR studies, and C) the participation of minority investigators and research staff. Assistance will be provided to CFAR investigators in the following specific areas: 1) design, testing, implementation, and evaluation of theory-driven behavioral interventions; 2) the application of social science research methods including survey construction, measurement of behavior and psychiatric symptoms, social statistics, qualitative methods, program evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, and social policy analysis; 3) maintenance of a community-based research network to facilitate investigator access to community populations and settings such as homeless shelters, public housing, drug treatment centers, primary care clinics, and schools; 4) assistance with case finding and subjective recruitment by maintenance of locator information and participant file with demographic, behavioral risk, and HIV status information on potential research subjects living in the community who are not included in the UPHS clinical data base; 5) vital status determination for subjects lost to follow-up; 6) maintenance of a library of relevant public use data files, and assistance with secondary analysis.

行为和社会科学核心提供了一个组织宾夕法尼亚大学在行为和社会科学方面的大量研究能力的结构，并将这些资源集中在艾滋病毒/艾滋病相关的研究上。其目标是通过促进将行为和社会科学的最新理论和方法贡献纳入整个 CFAR 研究范围，从而推进艾滋病研究。为此，核心强调 A) 向费城社区，特别是其少数群体进行推广，B) 案例发现，以确保将妇女和少数群体受试者纳入 CFAR 研究，以及 C) 少数群体调查人员和研究人员的参与。将在以下特定领域向CFAR研究者提供帮助：1）理论驱动的行为干预措施的设计、测试、实施和评估； 2）社会科学研究方法的应用，包括调查构建、行为和精神症状测量、社会统计、定性方法、项目评估、成本效益分析和社会政策分析； 3) 维护以社区为基础的研究网络，以方便研究者接触社区人口和环境，如无家可归者收容所、公共住房、戒毒治疗中心、初级保健诊所和学校； 4) 通过维护定位信息和参与者档案，提供居住在社区中未包含在 UPHS 临床数据库中的潜在研究对象的人口统计、行为风险和 HIV 状况信息，协助病例发现和主观招募； 5) 失访受试者的生命状态测定； 6）维护相关公用数据档案库，并协助二次分析。