Workplace Policies and Practices Coordinating Center

工作场所政策和实践协调中心

• 批准号: 7003618
• 负责人: JEREMY W BRAY
• 金额: $ 7.54万
• 依托单位: RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-03 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7003618
• 关键词: Internet; biomedical facility; clinical research; cooperative study; human subject; interdisciplinary collaboration; occupational health /safety; work site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application describes RTI's plan to serve as a Coordinating Center (CC) for the Workplace Policies and Practices multisite collaborative described in RFA-HD-04-017, Developing Study Designs to Evaluate Health Benefits of Workplace Policies and Practices. We have assembled a seasoned, multidisciplinary team of investigators and consultants who will both lead and support the collaborative in achieving its overarching aim of developing improved designs for evaluating workplace-based interventions (Phase 1) and then using those designs to enhance our knowledge of the efficacy of selected specific interventions (Phase 2). Our team includes investigators who: (1) have an extensive history of working together; (2) in-depth experience in designing and implementing studies of workplace-based health and psychosocial interventions; and (3) extensive experience in serving as CC for diverse, multidisciplinary, multisite collaboratives. We begin our application with brief summaries of the literature on workplace-based interventions, and then identify three important categories of issues that the collaborative will face: issues related to the use of quasi-experimental designs, issues associated with study implementation (e.g., low participation rates), and issues associated with data analysis (e.g., use of suboptimal analytic techniques). We then summarize our thinking about the role of the CC in the collaborative, with particular focus on the shift of emphasis in the role from Phase 1 to Phase 2. We then describe our administrative and collaborative plans, emphasizing both expert methodological and practical experience input to the collaborative's deliberations about model designs and logistical support to facilitate that work for Phase 1, and the more traditional coordinating center role of protocol development, implementation quality control, and data analysis for Phase 2. Finally, we describe briefly some of the many strengths our team brings to both phases of the CC effort.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请描述了RTI计划担任RFA-HD-04-017《开发研究设计以评价工作场所政策和实践的健康益处》中描述的多中心协作工作场所政策和实践的协调中心（CC）。我们已经组建了一支经验丰富的多学科研究人员和顾问团队，他们将领导和支持合作，以实现其总体目标，即开发用于评估基于工作场所的干预措施的改进设计（第1阶段），然后使用这些设计来增强我们对选定的特定干预措施（第2阶段）的有效性的了解。我们的团队包括研究人员谁：（1）有广泛的合作历史;（2）在设计和实施基于工作场所的健康和心理社会干预研究的深入经验;和（3）在担任CC为多样化，多学科，多地点合作的丰富经验。 我们开始我们的应用程序与工作场所为基础的干预文献的简要总结，然后确定三个重要类别的问题，合作将面临的：问题有关的准实验设计的使用，与研究实施相关的问题（例如，低参与率），以及与数据分析相关的问题（例如，使用次优分析技术）。然后，我们总结了我们对CC在协作中的作用的思考，特别关注从第一阶段到第二阶段的重点转移。然后，我们描述了我们的行政和协作计划，强调专家的方法和实践经验的输入，以协作的审议模型设计和后勤支持，以促进第1阶段的工作，以及更传统的协调中心的作用，协议的开发，实施质量控制，和数据分析的第2阶段。最后，我们简要描述了我们的团队为CC工作的两个阶段带来的许多优势中的一些。