Spanish and English Multimedia Interventon to Increase Organ and Tissue Donation

描述(由申请人提供)：应聘者是阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦医学院(AECOM)的急诊医学助理教授。这项建议旨在专注并进一步发展他在健康差距研究方面的专业知识，以成为一名独立的临床调查员。研究环境是一个大都市急诊科，工作人员在进行临床试验方面经验丰富。短期的职业发展目标是扩大候选人的生物伦理、定量和定性方法的知识，并应用这些方法设计和评估一个基于计算机的多媒体模块，以提高公众对器官捐赠的认识。在这个项目之后，候选人打算提交一份R01补助金，以评估该模块在多中心试验中的普遍使用情况，并评估翻译成其他通用语言的版本。更广泛的目标是基于定性研究方法开发具有文化敏感性的多媒体模块，通过改善患者状况来改善弱势群体的健康结果 理解。实现这些目标的计划包括正式的课程、指导和项目规划和执行方面的实践经验。从AECOM和纽约大学的课程中选择了生物伦理学、跨文化研究方法、教育数字视频开发和多媒体模块设计等课程作为该计划的教学内容。一个由五名在生物伦理学、定性、定量和多媒体教育研究方法方面有经验的当地专家组成的委员会将指导候选人。培训还包括多媒体模块设计的学徒培训。这项计划得到了应聘者部门主管的全力支持，他将为完成这项职业发展提案提供必要的时间和资源。这项拟议的研究是一系列随机对照临床试验，旨在确定西班牙语和英语多媒体模块是否优于标准手册，后者用于提高人们对器官捐赠的认识，并鼓励在器官捐赠者登记中登记。这一系列调查的目的是促进提高捐助者认识的努力，并评价对文化敏感的干预措施，以确保个人的捐献愿望得到记录和落实。这将提高器官采购率，有可能挽救越来越多等待器官移植的患者的生命。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The candidate is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM). This proposal is designed to focus and further develop his expertise in health disparities research to become an independent clinical investigator. The research environment is a metropolitan emergency department with staff experienced in conducting clinical trials. The short-term career development goal is to expand the candidate's knowledge of bioethics, quantitative and qualitative methodology and apply these methods to design and evaluate a multimedia computer-based module for increasing public awareness about organ donation. Following this project, the candidate intends to submit an R01 grant to evaluate general use of the module in a multi-center trial and to evaluate versions translated in other common languages. The broader goal is to develop culturally sensitive multimedia modules based on qualitative research methods to improve health outcomes in disadvantaged populations through improved patient understanding. The plan to achieve these goals includes formal coursework, mentoring, and practical experience in project planning and execution. Courses in bioethics, cross-cultural research methods, educational digital video development and multimedia module design have been selected from the curriculum of AECOM and New York University as the didactic component of this plan. A committee of five local experts with experience in bioethics, qualitative, quantitative, and multimedia education research methods will mentor the candidate. Training also includes an apprenticeship in multimedia module design. This plan has the full support from the candidate's department chairman who will provide the protected time and resources necessary for completion of this career development proposal. The proposed research is a series of randomized controlled clinical trials designed to determine if a Spanish and English multimedia module is superior to a standard brochure used to increase awareness about organ donation and encourage registration into an organ donor registry. The goal of this line of inquiry is to promote donor awareness efforts and evaluate culturally sensitive interventions for ensuring that an individual's wishes to donate are documented and carried out. This would increase organ procurement rates potentially saving lives of the increasing number of patients awaiting organ transplantation.