Workplace Policies and Practices Coordinating Center

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请描述了 RTI 作为工作场所政策和实践多地点协作协调中心 (CC) 的计划，如 RFA-HD-04-017“开发研究设计以评估工作场所政策和实践的健康益处”中所述。我们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，即开发改进的设计来评估基于工作场所的干预措施（第一阶段），然后使用这些设计来增强我们对所选特定干预措施功效的了解（第二阶段）。我们的团队包括以下调查人员：(1) 具有丰富的合作历史； (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方面有丰富的经验； (3) 在担任多元化、多学科、多地点合作的 CC 方面拥有丰富的经验。 我们首先对基于工作场所的干预措施的文献进行简要总结，然后确定合作将面临的三类重要问题：与准实验设计的使用相关的问题、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，特别关注角色重点从第一阶段到第二阶段的转变。然后，我们描述了我们的管理和协作计划，强调专家方法论和实践经验输入到协作审议中的模型设计和后勤支持，以促进第一阶段的工作，以及第二阶段的协议开发、实施质量控制和数据分析等更传统的协调中心角色。最后，我们简要描述了众多优势中的一些我们的团队为 CC 的两个阶段都做出了努力。

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.