Health Maintenance Consortium Resource Center

健康维护联盟资源中心

• 批准号: 6740548
• 负责人: MARCIA G. ORY
• 金额: $ 38.8万
• 依托单位: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-02-01 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6740548
• 关键词: behavior modification; behavioral /social science research tag; disease /disorder prevention /control; health behavior; information dissemination; meeting /conference /symposium; online computer

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：虽然最近人们开始关注复发预防/管理的相关因素、中介因素和结果，但这一研究领域仍处于起步阶段。维持和可持续性资源中心（MSRC）的目标是通过整合不同的改变过程理论，复发预防和生态/多层次上下文方法，进一步了解行为改变的长期维持和有效的可持续策略，以实现健康促进和疾病预防的目标，为行为健康领域提供方向。MSRC与美国国立卫生研究院项目管理人员和长期行为改变维持（MLTBC） RFA资助的研究人员合作，旨在促进个人受资助者的成功，并推动当前行为过程和改变研究的边界。功能的集中和协调提供了规模经济，并为建设研究和实践能力提供了重点。MSRC团队在健康行为和行为改变过程方面具有丰富的技术知识，并且在健康行为干预研究方面具有丰富的经验。MSRC已经确定了四个相互关联的目标，以推动行为改变研究超越个人资助的研究。利用内部和外部顾问，MSRC将创建一个科学和管理基础设施，以：1)促进MLTBC RFA资助的项目之间的持续跨站点沟通；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，并解决跨领域问题，为各个MLTBC项目增加协同作用；3)为这些项目产生的行为改变概念、评估工具、干预方案、方法和数据建立一个中央交流中心，这些项目可以对其他研究人员和实践者有益；4)通过在线和通过列表服务、研讨会和专题讨论会传播研究成果和工具，以增加研究人员和从业人员的可用性。虽然个别研究可以为这门新科学增添新的内容，但围绕维持长期行为这一共同主题的一系列协调研究，有可能对国民的健康和福祉产生重大影响。