Training Institutes for mobile health (mHealth) methodologies

移动技术在促进健康行为改变(MHealth)方面的前景，特别是在 行为和物质成瘾，在很大程度上还没有意识到。孤立地开发移动健康解决方案，以及 缺乏共享的词汇和缺乏跨学科的互动是一些潜在的驱动因素。 我们年度移动健康培训学院(MHTI)的2.0版将完善和扩展我们的能力建设和 知识转移活动。超越在行为改变中灌输共享知识和交叉技能 方法和mHealth方法论，我们的主要目标是为mHTI学者提供团队科学 促进跨学科能力和协作的学习机会。独特的元素 MHTI 2.0包括：1)将电子学习和小组讲座与基于团队的项目相结合的混合学习方法，其中不同的研究人员在经验丰富的教师导师的指导下共同创建mHealth 常见问题的解决方案；(2)锚定程序设计、实施、评估和管理的逻辑模型 迭代改进；(3)通过一个明确的“理论”测试短期和长期的有效性和影响 《行动计划》，将mHTI组成部分(拟议活动)与执行指标(产出)联系起来； 和预期效果(方案成果目标)；(4)社会网络分析，以研究如何取得成功 跨学科网络在mHTI学者中的发展和演变；以及(5)对 加州大学洛杉矶分校评估、标准和学生测试研究中心(CRESST)的mHTI计划。 我们的“跨学科移动健康孵化器”将继续得益于一群 MHTI教师具有广泛的培训经验，并致力于培养下一代不同的 移动健康科学家。它将利用加州大学洛杉矶分校的创新文化为社会造福，并得到校园的支持 领导力，以及支持知识转让的成熟的有形基础设施和后勤系统。协同效应 与NIH-移动数据到知识(MD2K)中心和西北大学CTSA团队科学的合作伙伴关系 该计划将扩大MHTI的教育努力。使用MD2K的ePlatform和MHTI学者 数字工具将降低高质量移动健康研究的进入门槛。我们的虚拟协作中心(MHealthHUB) 将促进和维持分散在不同地区的学者之间的跨学科合作。 此外，mHealthHUB将作为一个低成本的一站式数字门户，传播mHTI内容 和MD2K工具广泛应用于移动健康社区，从而促进教育的长期可持续性。 最后，mHTI的教学资源将被精选为内容集群，作为学者的工具包 希望在本国机构(培训师培训)提供类似的移动健康和团队科学培训。 通过用不同的自我实现的、综合的科学家队伍来启动mHealth创新管道， 跨学科能力和心态，mHTI 2.0将确保行为健康和 成瘾障碍更适合实现mHealth的变革潜力。

The promise of mobile technologies in fostering health-behavior change (mHealth), particularly in behavioral and substance addictions, has been largely unrealized. Siloed development of mHealth solutions, an absence of shared vocabulary and a dearth of cross-disciplinary interactions are some of the underlying drivers. Version 2.0 of our annual mHealth Training Institute (mHTI) will refine and extend our capacity-building and knowledge transfer activities. Beyond inculcating shared knowledge and cross-cutting skills in behavioral change approaches and mHealth methodologies, our key objectives are to provide the mHTI scholars with team-science learning opportunities that promote transdisciplinary competencies and collaborations. Distinctive elements of the mHTI 2.0 include: 1) a blended learning approach that integrates e-learning and group lectures with team-based projects where disparate researchers, guided by experienced faculty mentors, co-create mHealth solutions for common problems; (2) a logic model that anchors program design, implementation, evaluation and iterative refinement; (3) testing of short and long-term effectiveness and impact through an articulated “Theory of Action” that connects the mHTI components (proposed activities) with indicators of implementation (outputs), and the intended effects (program outcome objectives); (4) social-network analyses to study how successful transdisciplinary networks develop and evolve among the mHTI scholars; and (5) independent assessments of the mHTI program by the UCLA Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST). Our “transdisciplinary mHealth incubator” will continue to derive from the contributions of an group of mHTI faculty with extensive training priors and a deep commitment to educating the next generation of diverse mHealth scientists. It will capitalize on UCLA’s culture of innovation for societal good, backing from campus leadership, and mature physical infrastructure and logistical systems to support knowledge transfer. Synergistic partnerships with the NIH-Mobile Data to Knowledge (MD2K) Center and Northwestern’s CTSA Team Science program will amplify the mHTI’s educational efforts. Enabling mHTI scholars with the MD2K’s ePlatform and digital tools will lower entry barriers to high quality mHealth research. Our virtual collaboratory (mHealthHUB) will facilitate and sustain transdisciplinary collaborations between the geographically-dispersed scholars. Furthermore, the mHealthHUB will serve as a low-cost ‘one-stop’ digital portal for disseminating mHTI content and MD2K tools broadly to the mHealth community and thus, promote long-term educational sustainability. Finally, the didactic resources of the mHTI will be curated into content clusters to serve as a toolkit for scholars desirous of delivering similar mHealth and team science training at their home institutions (Train-the-Trainer). By priming the mHealth innovation pipeline with a diverse cadre of self-actualizing, integrative scientists with transdisciplinary competencies and mindsets, mHTI 2.0 will ensure that the fields of behavioral health and addictive disorders are better positioned to realize the transformative potential of mHealth.