Sustaining Public Academic Research Collaborations

描述(由申请人提供)：这个名为“维持公共-学术研究合作”(SPARC)的IP-RISP将为德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥健康科学中心的研究人员与圣安东尼奥社区精神卫生机构卫生保健服务中心(CHCs)的干预研究伙伴关系开发基础设施。它建立在目前PI和共同PI与该机构的活跃研究关系的基础上。其目标是建立机制和途径，开展互惠互利的富有成效的公共-学术研究合作，其结果将与在社区环境中接受治疗的精神疾病患者高度相关。一个主要的重点是确定和克服临床、管理和态度方面的障碍，以开展研究合作。为实现更有效和更有成效的研究伙伴关系而建议的干预措施包括改变员工培训，制定一个研究审查程序，鼓励机构与研究人员的互动和利益相关者的参与，制定具体的CHC职位以促进研究，利用研究人员的专业知识帮助该机构改善临床护理和计划评估，以及开发基于计算机的信息共享和转移程序，以改善研究对象的临床护理和研究人员获取机构数据。这些干预措施的目标是创造一个相互信任和互惠互利的环境，使干预措施和实践研究得以优化。可能影响服务获取、设计和交付的种族/文化因素将是重点。将改进合作状况的衡量标准，并将指导其进展。为了传播这些努力的成果，将开发一个工具包，以协助在其他环境中执行工作。两项试验性干预研究将解决在社区精神卫生环境中规划和执行循证实践研究的问题。衡量每一种干预措施对患者结局和医院使用的影响将指导全面后续研究的发展。这项工作将有助于改进精神卫生服务的设计和提供，促进在通常提供这些服务的环境中与通常接受这些服务的人一起进行研究。为接受治疗的人设计和量身定做的治疗应该会改善心理健康结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This IP-RISP, entitled "Sustaining Public-Academic Research Collaborations" (SPARC), will develop infrastructure for an interventions research partnership of investigators at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio with the Center for Health Care Services (CHCS), the community mental health agency for San Antonio. It builds on current active research relationships of the PI and co-PI with the agency. The goal is to create mechanisms and pathways to productive public-academic research collaborations that will be mutually beneficial, and results of which will be highly relevant to persons with mental illness treated in community settings. A major focus is on identifying and overcoming clinical, administrative, and attitudinal impediments to research collaborations. Proposed interventions to achieve a more effective and productive research partnership include changes in employee training, developing a research review process that encourages agency-researcher interactions and involvement of stakeholders, developing specific CHCS positions to facilitate research, use of investigator expertise to assist the agency in improving clinical care and program evaluation, and developing computer-based procedures for information sharing and transfer to improve clinical care of research subjects and researcher access to agency data. The goal of these interventions is to create an environment of mutual trust and beneficence that allows optimization of interventions and practice research. Ethnic/cultural factors that can impact service access, design, and delivery will be a key focus. Measures of the state of the collaboration will be refined and will guide its progress. To disseminate the results of these efforts, a toolkit to assist implementation in other settings will be developed. Two pilot intervention studies will address issues in planning and executing studies of evidence-based practices in community mental health settings. Measures of each intervention's effects on patient outcomes and hospital use will guide development of full-scale follow-up studies. This work will contribute to improved design and delivery of mental health services by facilitating research in the settings where these services are usually provided, with the persons who usually receive them. Treatments designed and tailored for those receiving them should improve mental health outcomes.