Psychometric Integrative Technology for Cognitive Health Research

认知健康研究的心理测量综合技术

• 批准号: 8966053
• 负责人: Richard N Jones
• 金额: $ 76.28万
• 依托单位: BROWN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8966053
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Adopted; Age; Aging; Area; Biological Markers; Characteristics; Clinical; Cognition; Cognitive; Cognitive aging; Collaborations; Country; Data; Dementia; Device or Instrument Development; Disease; Educational Background; Educational workshop; Elderly; Environment; Epidemiology; Ethnic Origin; Evaluation; Family Study; Future; Gerontology; Goals; Health; Health Planning; Health Status; Health Surveys; Impaired cognition; Individual; International; Interviewer; Language; Link; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Maps; Measurement; Measures; Medicine; Methods; Modeling; Modification; Movement; Neuropsychological Tests; Neuropsychology; Outcome; Participant; Planet Mars; Policy Maker; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Population Surveillance; Psychometrics; Public Health; Race; Recommendation; Research; Research Project Grants; Retirement; Risk; Sampling; Sampling Studies; Sister; Technology; Testing; Training; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; burden of illness; cognitive change; cognitive function; cognitive testing; comparative; cost; experience; interest; longitudinal course; member; mental state; multidisciplinary; neuroimaging; neuropathology; neuropsychological; public health relevance; response; theories; tool; trait

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A number of surveys of health and cognition in older adults conducted outside of the US are modeled after the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Each of these international sister studies (ISS) uses different methods to assess cognitive functioning. These differences, combined with differences in the environment, languages, demographic and health characteristics of the participants make it difficult to draw clear conclusions regarding similarities and differences in the level of cognitive impairment cross-nationally. The ability to compare rates of dementia and more broadly cognitive impairment internationally is of interest to policy makers and public health leaders. Health ministries require reliable information regarding the comparative burden and potential impact of cognitive impairment among their older citizens to evaluate previous public responses and plans for future responses to demographic shifts. Our team is a productive and multidisciplinary group representing expertise in cognitive aging, psychometrics, neuropsychology, medicine, gerontology, and epidemiology. We have a long track record of collaboration in these areas, and extensive applied experience with the HRS international sister studies, including psychometric linking studies with direct relevance to the current application. Members of our team also include experts at the forefront of efforts to standardize and modernize health and cognitive assessments using state-of-the-art psychometric and computing approaches. Our application will: 1) harmonize and co-calibrate the cognitive assessments in the HRS family of studies, 2) identify limits of the validity of the measures, 3) and make concrete recommendations for future work and instrument development. We will accomplish these goals my making use of HRS and ISS, as well as other existing studies that include brief mental status assessments, neuropsychological tests, and relevant clinical outcomes for cognitive aging and dementia (neuroimaging, neuropathology, and longitudinal course).