CORE--RESEARCH METHODS

核心--研究方法

• 批准号: 6833798
• 负责人: J. Curtis MCMILLEN
• 金额: $ 43.11万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6833798
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; biomedical facility; clinical research; data collection methodology /evaluation; extended care; health care quality; health care service evaluation; health care service organization; health care service planning; health services research tag; human old age (65+); human subject; mental disorders; mental health services; method development; preference; social service; statistics /biometry

We propose a Research Methods Core (RMC) to develop, enhance, and provide state-of-the-art methodological expertise to all research projects affiliated with the Center for Research to Improve Mental Health Care in the Social Services (C-RIMSS). The RMC proposes to advance the qualitative, statistical, and organizational methods used by mental health services researchers, and to develop new quality indicators and methods to assess stakeholder preferences for mental health services. Aims will be advanced by two methods units, three methods consultation teams, and four methods projects. The two methods units -- for Qualitative Methods and Statistical Analysis -- will provide substantial, ongoing, state of the art support to C-RIMSS investigators by scientific experts at Washington University in St. Louis and nationally. The three consultation methods teams will be led by national methods experts outside of St. Louis. The Stakeholder Preferences Methods Team will help C-RIMSS investigators best capture stakeholder preferences for quality care dimensions, services, interventions, and improvements. The Quality Indicators Team will help C-RIMSS investigators develop indicators of quality care that are applicable across sectors. The Organizational Research Methods Team will help C-RIMSS investigators navigate the political, methodological and statistical complexities of conducting research in organizations. The Core will support four projects related to the RMC aims. An ethnographic study of the cultural divide between social service and mental health sectors of care will inform C-RIMSS efforts to build quality improvement interventions that bridge this divide. A pilot project will test stakeholder preference methods among seniors in the community long term care sector that can be applied to other service sectors. A measure of organizational receptivity to evidence based practices will be developed for use in quality improvement efforts, and our methods experts will characterize the unique challenges of building quality indicators for mental health care in social service settings. Two of these projects will lead to applications for further funding.

我们提出了一个研究方法核心（RMC），以开发，增强和提供国家的最先进的方法专业知识，所有研究项目附属于研究中心，以改善心理健康护理的社会服务（C-RIMSS）。RMC建议推进心理健康服务研究人员使用的定性，统计和组织方法，并开发新的质量指标和方法来评估利益相关者对心理健康服务的偏好。目标将通过两种方法单元，三种方法 咨询小组和四个方法项目。定性方法和统计分析这两个方法单位将由圣路易斯华盛顿大学和全国的科学专家向C-RIMSS调查人员提供实质性的、持续的、最先进的支持。三个咨询方法小组将由圣路易斯以外的国家方法专家领导。利益相关者偏好方法团队将帮助C-RIMSS调查人员最好地捕捉利益相关者对优质护理维度、服务、干预和改进的偏好。质量指标小组将帮助C-RIMSS调查人员制定适用于各部门的质量护理指标。组织研究方法团队将帮助 C-RIMSS调查人员在组织中进行研究的政治，方法和统计复杂性。该核心将支持与风险管理委员会目标有关的四个项目。对社会服务和精神卫生保健部门之间的文化鸿沟进行人种学研究，将为C-RIMSS努力建立弥合这一鸿沟的质量改进干预措施提供信息。一个试点项目将在社区长期护理部门的老年人中测试利益攸关方偏好方法，该方法可适用于其他服务部门。将制定一项衡量组织对循证实践的接受程度的措施，以供质量管理部门使用。 我们的方法专家将描述在社会服务环境中建立精神卫生保健质量指标的独特挑战。其中两个项目将导致申请进一步的资金。