Behavioral Economics and Intervention Sciences

项目总结(见说明)： 佛蒙特州行为与健康中心(VCBH)将致力于研究个人行为模式与慢性病和过早死亡风险之间的关系。行为经济学和干预科学(BEIS)核心的主要目的将是为VCBH调查人员提供三个关键领域的科学和技术专长和研究基础设施。首先，核心将协助调查人员开发和实施以激励为基础的和其他行为和药物干预措施，以促进行为改变，特别注意根据目标人群和风险行为的独特特征调整这些干预措施，并在可能的情况下包括核实行为改变的方法。第二，核心将提供干预措施和健康结果的经济计量模型，包括几种类型的健康经济分析，以检验基于价值的激励可以导致持续改善结果和降低成本的假设(例如，成本效益、成本效益和成本效益分析)。第三，核心中心将提供行为选择和决策研究方面的专业知识，特别强调调查与健康行为和对干预措施的反应有关的影响决策的核心认知过程。可用的方法将包括实验室任务、自我报告工具、神经心理测试和经过充分验证的功能磁共振成像范例，这些范例将允许评估核心认知过程如何影响决策和行为。最后，我们将拥有将技术(基于网络的平台、移动设备)与干预和评估相结合的中心专业知识，以同时提高可访问性和降低成本。综合考虑，BEIS核心将提供必要的专业知识和基础设施，以支持VCBH调查人员现在和未来的研究，以及UVM园区内的其他研究人员。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): The Vermont Center on Behavior and Health (VCBH) will be dedicated to researching relationships between personal behavior patterns and risk for chronic disease and premature death. The overarching purpose of the Behavioral Economics and Intervention Science (BEIS) Core will be to provide VCBH investigators with scientific and technical expertise and research infrastructure in three key areas. First, the Core will assist investigators with developing and implementing incentive-based and other behavioral and pharmacological interventions to promote behavior change, taking special care to tailor these interventions to the unique characteristics of the population and risk behavior being targeted and where possible to include methods for verifying behavior change. Second, the Core will offer econometric modeling of interventions and health outcomes, including several types of health economic analyses in order to test the hypothesis that value-based incentives can lead to sustained improved outcomes and reduced costs (e.g., cost effectiveness, cost-utility and cost-benefit analyses). Third, the Core will offer expertise in the study of behavioral choice and decision making, with a special emphasis on investigating core cognitive processes that bias decision making related to health behaviors and response to interventions. Available methods will include laboratory tasks, self-report instruments, neuropsychological tests and well-validated fMRI paradigms which will permit the assessment of how core cognitive processes affect decision making and behavior. Finally, we will have center expertise in the integration of technology (web-based platforms, mobile devices) with interventions and assessments to simultaneously increase accessibility and lower costs. Considered together, the BEIS Core will provide the expertise and infrastructure necessary to support the research of the VCBH investigators now and in the future, as well as other researchers across the UVM campus.