Workplace Policies and Practices Coordinating Center

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请描述了RTI计划作为RFA-HD-04-017中描述的工作场所政策和实践多站点协作的协调中心（CC），开发研究设计以评估工作场所政策和实践的健康益处。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，即开发评估基于工作场所的干预措施的改进设计（第一阶段），然后使用这些设计来增强我们对选定特定干预措施有效性的了解（第二阶段）。我们的团队包括调查者，他们：(1)有着广泛的合作历史；(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方面有深入的经验；(3)担任CC的丰富经验，为不同的、多学科的、多地点的合作提供服务。

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.