RISP for Mental Health Services in the Aftermath of Violence Against Women

描述(由申请者提供)：NIH/NIMH“桥梁科学和服务”报告建议支持学术研究人员和公共保健系统之间的合作伙伴关系，以此作为将精神健康研究与精神健康实践相结合的一种方式。PA 04-015，“干预和实践研究基础设施方案”IP-RISP，是该报告的结果。它特别寻求“促进精神卫生研究人员与社区、临床/服务人员、临床医生和患者/客户之间积极、协同的伙伴关系，以：(1)增进我们对在社区环境中发展研究基础设施和建立协作伙伴关系的知识；(2)在社区环境中确定并纳入那些可能与患者和客户的高质量护理和最佳结果相关的因素(例如，组织、社会文化、人际关系)；以及(3)在社区环境中采用经测试的、基于证据的干预措施(治疗、康复和预防)。”目前的申请旨在与一家以社区为基础的专门护理机构合作，解决所有这三个目标，为家庭暴力或性暴力的女性受害者提供服务。对妇女的暴力行为是一个普遍存在的社会问题，往往会给受害者带来严重的心理健康后果。因此，R24 IP-RISP应用程序的目的是与一个久负盛名的家庭暴力-强奸危机心理健康服务组织合作，在社区环境中建立一个研究基础设施，支持对被虐待妇女和强奸受害者的心理健康服务的合作研究。这项申请有4个具体目标：(1)建立一个研究基础设施，支持开展以社区为基础的有关暴力侵害妇女行为的精神健康服务研究。(2)发展以社区为基础的专科护理机构的基础设施，以增强他们从事合作研究的能力。(3)在以社区为基础的机构环境中测试循证干预。(4)对协作研究过程的集成模型进行系统评价。在这些目标范围内，将进行五项研究。实现这些目标将产生一个以社区为基础的研究基础设施，能够支持和维持与亲密暴力和性暴力的精神健康后果有关的各种研究。此外，合作研究的经验性评估模型将提供给寻求沟通心理健康研究和实践的其他研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The NIH/NIMH "Bridging Science and Service" report recommends supporting collaborative partnerships between academic researchers and public care systems as a way to fuse mental health research with mental health practice. PA 04-015, the "Interventions and Practice Research Infrastructure Program" IP- RISP, resulted from that report. It specifically seeks to "foster an active, synergistic partnership between mental health researchers and community-based, clinical/services staff, clinicians and patients/clients to: (1) advance our knowledge about developing research infrastructure in community settings and the establishment of collaborative partnerships; (2) identify and incorporate those factors (e.g., organizational, sociocultural, interpersonal) in community settings that may be associated with quality care and optimal outcomes for patients and clients; and (3) test adapted, evidence-based interventions (treatment, rehabilitative, and preventive) in community settings." The current application aims to address all three of these goals in collaboration with a community-based, specialty care agency serving female victims of domestic or sexual violence. Violence against women is a pervasive social problem, often resulting in severe mental health consequences for its victims. The purpose of this R24 IP-RISP application, then, is to collaborate with a well- established domestic violence-rape crisis mental health services organization to develop a research infrastructure in a community setting that is supportive of collaborative research on mental health services for battered women and rape victims. This application has 4 specific aims: (1) Develop a research infrastructure that supports conducting community-based mental health services research pertaining to violence against women. (2) Develop a community based, specialty care agency's infrastructure to enhance their capacity to engage in collaborative research. (3) Test an evidence-based intervention in a community-based agency setting. (4) Systematically evaluate an integrated model of the collaborative research process. Within these aims five studies will be conducted. The achievement of these aims will result in a community-based research infrastructure able to support and sustain a wide variety of research studies pertaining to the mental health consequences of intimate and sexual violence. Further, the empirically assessed model of collaborative research will be made available to other researchers seeking to bridge mental health research and practice.