Training Institutes for mobile health (mHealth) methodologies

描述(由申请人提供)：移动技术在促进健康行为改变(MHealth)方面的承诺，特别是在物质使用障碍方面，在很大程度上尚未实现。孤立的发展、缺乏共享的词汇和缺乏跨学科互动是使mHealth技术专家和行为主义者之间的分歧永久化的一些挑战，并加剧了人们对mHealth方法的临床采用或最终对公共卫生的影响的严重担忧。为了解决这些问题，我们将开发和实施一个移动健康培训研究所(MHTI)，为参与者提供关于移动健康观点和方法的核心教育基础，并帮助灌输跨学科合作所需的个人和人际技能和态度。MHTI每年在加州大学洛杉矶分校举行，将为每年挑选的35名参与者提供为期一周的沉浸计划，并持续进行指导和促进合作，以提供连续的活动学习和协作体验。MHTI的独特元素将包括(A)基于问题的团队科学项目，它建立在教学核心的基础上，允许来自不同学科的受训人员联合应用他们的专业知识来解决特定的行为健康问题；(B)由来自不同学科的经验丰富的导师对每个团队进行多方面指导；(C)行业专家对mHealth产品开发生命周期的“现实世界”意见；以及(D)一个虚拟协作平台，以维持mHTI毕业生之间的协同互动和研究网络，并帮助他们开发跨学科的mHealth解决方案。在一个理论框架的基础上，我们将通过以下问题评估mhti在培养跨学科道德和技能方面的有效性：a)是否 研究所参与者对(跨学科合作的价值)的认可度提高了吗？(B)研究所参与者的自我效能感(即参与跨学科协作的信心)是否增加？(C)研究所参与者之间的实施性(即参与跨学科协作)是否增加？此外，研究基础设施和参与者所在机构的支持在多大程度上减缓了实现的变化？拟议的mHTI将派生出 来自学术、行业和NIH思想领袖的核心团队的协同努力，这些领导者具有mHealth培训经验，并坚定地致力于培养下一代跨学科的mHealth研究人员。在前身移动健康培训机构的经验基础上，mHTI将利用加州大学洛杉矶分校成熟的有形基础设施，阐明机构支持，以及为科学会议和会议建立的后勤支持系统。通过为mHealth创新管道配备一支具有跨学科能力和思维方式的自我实现的综合性科学家队伍，mHTI将确保行为健康障碍领域更好地实现mHealth的变革潜力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The promise of mobile technologies in facilitating health-behavior change (mHealth), particularly in substance use disorders, has been largely unrealized. Siloed development, absence of a shared vocabulary and a dearth of crossdisciplinary interactions are some of the challenges that perpetuate the divide between mHealth technologists and behaviorists and fuel serious concerns about the clinical uptake or eventual public health impact of mHealth approaches. To address these concerns, we will develop and implement a mHealth Training Institute (mHTI) that will provide participants with a core educational grounding in mHealth perspectives and methodologies and help inculcate the intrapersonal and interpersonal skills and attitudes necessary for transdisciplinary collaborations. Held annually at the University of California-Los Angele, the mHTI will combine a week-long, immersion program for the 35 participants selected each year with ongoing mentoring and facilitated collaborations to provide a continuum of activ learning and collaborative experiences. Distinctive elements of the mHTI will include (a) problem-based, team-science projects that build on the didactic core and allow trainees from disparate disciplines to apply their expertise jointly to a specific behavioral health problem; (b multi-mentoring of each team by experienced mentors grounded in different disciplines; (c) "real- world" input from industry experts on mHealth product development lifecycles; and (d) a virtual collaborative platform to sustain synergistic interactions and research networks between mHTI graduates and help them develop transdisciplinary mHealth solutions. Anchored by a theoretical framework, we will evaluate the effectiveness of the mHTI in fostering a transdisciplinary ethic and skills through the following questions: a) Does recognition (of the value of transdisciplinary collaboration) increase among institute participants? (b) Does self- efficacy (i.e., confidence to engage in transdisciplinary collaboration) increase among institute participants? (c) Does actualization (i.e., engagement in transdisciplinary collaboration) increase among institute participants? Furthermore, to what extent are changes in actualization moderated by the research infrastructure and support of participants' home institutions? The proposed mHTI will derive from the synergic efforts of a core group of academic, industry and NIH thought leaders with mHealth training priors and a deep commitment to educating the next generation of transdisciplinary mHealth researchers. Building on the experiences of precursor mHealth training institutes, the mHTI will capitalize on UCLA's mature physical infrastructure, articulate institutional backing, as well as established logistical support systems for scientific meetings and conferences. By priming the mHealth innovation pipeline with a cadre of self-actualizing, integrative scientists with transdisciplinary competencies and mindsets, the mHTI's will ensure that the field of behavioral health disorders is better positioned to realize the transformative potential of mHealth.