Health Maintenance Consortium Resource Center

描述(由申请人提供)：尽管最近人们注意到复发预防/管理的相关因素、中介因素和结果，但这一领域的研究仍处于初级阶段。维护和可持续发展资源中心(MSRC)的目标是通过汇集关于变化过程、复发预防和生态/多层次背景方法的不同理论，为行为健康领域提供指导，以进一步了解行为变化的长期维护和实现健康促进和疾病预防目标的有效可持续战略。MSRC与NIH项目管理人员和由长期行为改变(MLTBC)RFA资助的研究人员合作，旨在促进个别受赠者的成功，并推动当前行为过程和变化研究的边界。职能的集中和协调提供了规模经济，并集中于研究和实践能力的建设。MSRC团队在健康行为和行为改变过程方面拥有丰富的技术知识，并在健康行为干预研究方面拥有丰富的经验。MSRC已经确定了四个相互关联的目标，以推动行为变化研究超越个人资助的研究。利用内部和外部顾问，MSRC将创建一个科学和行政基础设施，以：1)促进MLTBC RFA资助的项目之间的持续跨站点交流；2)提供技术援助，以确定与维护和可持续性相关的常见问题、方法和措施，并解决增加个别MLTBC项目协同效应的交叉问题；3)建立一个中央信息交换中心，收集这些项目产生的行为变化概念、评估工具、干预方案、方法和数据，这些数据可能对其他研究人员和从业人员有益；以及4)在线和通过列表服务器、研讨会和研讨会传播研究成果和工具，以增加对研究人员和从业人员的可用性。虽然单独的研究可以为这门新科学添砖加瓦，但围绕长期行为维持这一共同主题进行的一系列协调研究，可能会对国家的健康和福祉产生重大影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although there has been recent attention to the correlates, mediators and outcomes of relapse prevention/management, this field of research is still in its infancy. The goal of the Maintenance and Sustainability Resource Center (MSRC) is to provide direction to the behavioral health field by bringing together disparate theories of processes of change, relapse prevention, and ecological/multi-level contextual approaches to further understand the long-term maintenance of behavioral change and effective sustainable strategies for achieving health promotion and disease prevention goals. Working collaboratively with NIH program administrators and investigators funded under the Maintenance of Long Term Behavior Change (MLTBC) RFA, the MSRC is designed to facilitate success of individual grantees and to push the boundaries of current research on behavioral processes and change research. The centralization and coordination of functions offers an economy of scale, and foci for building research and practice capacity. The MSRC team has substantial technical knowledge of health behavior and behavior change processes as well as previous experience in health behavior intervention research. The MSRC has identified four interrelated aims to advance behavioral change research beyond the individual funded studies. Utilizing both internal and external advisors, the MSRC will create a scientific and administrative infrastructure to: 1) Foster ongoing cross-site communications among projects funded under the MLTBC RFA; 2) Provide technical assistance to identify common questions, methods, and measures related to maintenance and sustainability and to address cross-cutting issues that add synergy to individual MLTBC projects; 3) Establish a central clearinghouse for behavioral change concepts, assessment instruments, intervention protocols, methods and data emanating from these projects that can be beneficial for other researchers and practitioners; and 4) Disseminate research findings and tools on-line and through listservs, workshops, and symposia to increase their availability to both researchers and practitioners. While individual studies can add to this new science, a collection of coordinated studies around this common theme of maintenance of long-term behavior has the potential for making a significant impact on the nation's health and well being.