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的互动，这些挑战使移动医疗技术专家和行为主义者之间的分歧持续存在，并引发了人们对移动医疗方法的临床应用或最终公共卫生影响的严重担忧。为了解决这些问题，我们将建立和实施一个移动健康培训学院（mHTI），为参与者提供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必需的人际交往技能和态度。mHTI每年在加州大学洛杉矶分校举行，将为每年选出的35名参与者提供为期一周的沉浸式课程，并将持续的指导和促进合作结合起来，以提供持续的积极学习和合作体验。mHTI的独特要素将包括(a)以问题为基础的团队科学项目，这些项目以教学核心为基础，并允许来自不同学科的学员共同将其专业知识应用于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指导；(c)行业专家对移动医疗产品开发生命周期的“实际”投入；(d)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移动医疗解决方案。在理论框架的基础上，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

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.