Archiving the Americans' Changing Lives Study: Enhancing Research Opportunities

归档美国人改变生活的研究：增加研究机会

• 批准号: 7509597
• 负责人: JAMES W MCNALLY
• 金额: $ 6.33万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7509597
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Age; Aging; American; Archives; Benchmarking; Bibliography; Biological Preservation; Censuses; Climacteric; Cognition; Collaborations; Collection; Communities; Complex; Data; Data Collection; Data Files; Data Quality; Development; Disclosure; Documentation; Evaluation; Extensible Markup Language; Foundations; Funding; Goals; HGS gene; Health; Health behavior; Housing; Individual; Lead; Life Cycle Stages; Light; Link; Literature; Mediating; Metadata; Michigan; Nature; Online Systems; Outcome; Play; Protocols documentation; Psyche structure; Psychosocial Factor; Public Health; Publications; Qualifying; Questionnaires; Range; Recording of previous events; Request for Applications; Research; Research Design; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Respondent; Risk; Role; Services; Social Conditions; Social Environment; Standards of Weights and Measures; Stress; Structure; Surveys; System; Systems Analysis; Technology; Time; Touch sensation; United States; Universities; Update; Work; caN protocol; comparative; computerized; data structure; economic behavior; file format; health disparity; health economics; insight; instrument; interest; mortality; psychologic; social; social model; socioeconomics; theories; tool; user-friendly

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funds to support work by NACDA in the development of enhanced archival research materials and extraction tools that facilitate the study of the social context of health, economic behavior and cognition across the life course in the United States. The American's Changing Lives (ACL) represents a foundation study that covers a wide array of variables that touch on sociological, psychological, mental and physical health items. The proposed collaboration between the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) and the ACL research team will allow us to apply our expertise in addressing this important task under the review of established experts of the ACL content. The current application focuses on core enhancements that will enhance the structure of the four waves of the ACL. We propose to implement a focused archival delivery system that will allow us to address four distinct research needs: 1. Enhancements to Data Structure: We will update and standardize the four panels of data constituting the American's Changing Lives to meet current archival standards for complex longitudinal data collections. 2. Enhancements to Documentation: We will extensively revise the documentation on the ACL to include user- friendly versions of codebooks and questionnaires instruments. 3. Enhancements to Restricted Data content: We will work with the ACL research team to review their collection of contextual data files and suggest protocols to allow the qualified researchers access to the files. 4. Enhancements to Value Added Support Services: We will provide the ACL a full suite of support tools and value added products. Included in this suite of tools will be a dynamic online bibliography of the study that is searchable and will have stable links to all electronically available publications. Additionally we will attempt to identify and add additional technical material on the use, potential applications, and history of the ACL. These goals, while far reaching, are realistic for NACDA under the Archival R-03 mechanism as the application builds upon a preexisting infrastructure that allows us to develop and deliver focused archival systems. By leveraging technology developed with existing funding, the resources requested in this application will maximize our ability to enhance the ACL in ways that were impractical if not impossible only a few years ago. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project will enhance the American's Changing Lives public use data files. These enhancements will allow researchers to examine the relationships of social and economic behaviors on health outcomes among adults aged 25 and older in the United States.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求资金支持NACDA在开发增强型档案研究材料和提取工具方面的工作，这些材料和工具有助于研究美国整个生命过程中的健康，经济行为和认知的社会背景。《美国人改变生活》是一项基础研究，涵盖了涉及社会学、心理学、精神和身体健康项目的各种变量。国家老龄计算机数据档案馆（NACDA）和ACL研究团队之间拟议的合作将使我们能够在ACL内容知名专家的审查下运用我们的专业知识来解决这一重要任务。当前的应用程序侧重于核心增强，这些增强将增强ACL的四个波的结构。我们建议实施一个集中的档案交付系统，这将使我们能够解决四个不同的研究需求：1。增强数据结构：我们将更新和标准化的四个面板的数据构成美国人的生活变化，以满足当前的档案标准，复杂的纵向数据收集。2.文档增强功能：我们将广泛修改ACL的文档，以包括代码簿和问卷工具的用户友好版本。3.对受限数据内容的增强：我们将与ACL研究团队合作，审查他们收集的上下文数据文件，并建议允许合格研究人员访问文件的协议。4.增值支持服务的增强：我们将为ACL提供全套支持工具和增值产品。这套工具将包括一个动态的研究报告在线书目，可供搜索，并与所有电子出版物有稳定的链接。此外，我们将尝试识别并添加有关ACL的使用、潜在应用和历史的其他技术材料。这些目标虽然意义深远，但对于存档R-03机制下的NACDA来说是现实的，因为该应用程序构建在预先存在的基础设施上，使我们能够开发和交付集中的存档系统。通过利用现有资金开发的技术，本申请中要求的资源将最大限度地提高我们增强ACL的能力，而这种增强ACL的方式在几年前是不切实际的，如果不是不可能的话。公共卫生相关性：该项目将增强美国改变生活公共使用数据文件。这些改进将使研究人员能够研究美国25岁及以上成年人的社会和经济行为对健康结果的关系。