Clinical and Community Human Assessment and Interventions Core

项目摘要-临床和社区人类评估和干预核心 临床和社区人类评估和干预（CHAI）核心是主要资源， 为研究者提供服务，以支持营养和肥胖的病因学和行为学研究 科学核心与研究团队合作，以提高他们的方法和技术专长 以：1）能够有效和专业地执行行为和临床评估协议（人体测量， 物理和行为测量），以及2）促进复杂干预研究的进行。作为共享 作为一种资源，Core使CNORC成员和外部用户能够有效地为其团队增加专业知识， 通常持续很短或特定的持续时间。核心有一个完善的基础设施， 以无缝和具有成本效益的方式进行临床，流行病学和干预研究，并确保 科学家在他们的科学中使用最新的，严格的和可重复的方法。行为评估 核心的组成部分提供方法学专业知识和服务，以执行饮食和营养评估。 人类的体力活动。这些功能确保了科学和技术研究所和其他机构的科学家使用 在他们的研究中使用最新的尖端方法，包括ActiLife软件和营养数据 研究系统（NDS-R®）和ASA 24（NCI）。核心的临床评估部分提供了 专业知识和设备，以支持使用生物电阻抗的身体组成的临床测量， BodPod和DXA，取决于研究者的需求。我们的临床评估设施配备了 临床代谢评估，并配有代谢推车和整个房间的热量测定，检查 房间，药房，抽血实验室，标本实验室，带家具的咨询室，以及一个 代谢厨房允许精确的膳食准备和交付的创新研究的饮食组成。 核心的干预部分已经为研究人员提供了15年的服务， 开展行为干预研究、定性研究、电子健康和移动健康干预 发展具体来说，干预部分提供行为改变方面的咨询和服务 干预和决策辅助网站和应用程序;标识和小册子，招聘和介绍 材料;用户研究，如可用性测试、定性访谈和焦点小组;量身定制的信息传递 和反馈;以及移动的技术的响应式设计。干预部分提供以下方面的专门知识： 电子健康和移动的平台以及响应式网页设计。

Project Summary – Clinical and Community Human Assessment and Interventions Core The Clinical and Community Human Assessment and Interventions (CHAI) Core is the primary resource at UNC for investigators to obtain services to support etiological and behavioral research in nutrition and obesity science. The Core collaborates with research teams to enhance their methodological and technical expertise to: 1) enable efficient and expert execution of behavioral and clinical assessment protocols (anthropometric, physical, and behavioral measures), and 2) facilitate the conduct of complex intervention studies. As a shared resource, the Core enables UNC NORC members and external users to efficiently add expertise to their team, often for a short or specific duration. The Core has a well-established infrastructure that accelerates human clinical, epidemiological, and intervention research in a seamless and cost-effective manner, and that assures that scientists use up-to-date, rigorous, and reproducible methods in their science. The behavioral assessment component of the Core offers methodological expertise and services to execute the assessment of diet and physical activity in human populations. These functions assure that scientists at UNC and other institutions use the latest cutting-edge methods in their research studies, including ActiLife software and the Nutrition Data System for Research (NDS-R®) and ASA24 (NCI). The clinical assessment component of the Core provides the expertise and equipment to support clinical measures for body composition using bioelectrical impedance, BodPod and DXA, depending on the needs of the investigator. Our clinical assessment facility is equipped for clinical metabolic assessments and is complete with a metabolic cart and whole room calorimetry, examination rooms, pharmacy, phlebotomy laboratory, specimen laboratory, furnished consultation rooms, as well as a metabolic kitchen to permit precise meal preparation and delivery for innovative studies of dietary composition. The intervention component of the Core has been providing services to researchers for 15 years to develop and conduct behavioral intervention research, qualitative research, and e-health and m-health intervention development. Specifically, the intervention component offers consulting and services in behavior change intervention and decision-aid websites and applications; logos and brochures, recruitment and presentation materials; user research, such as usability testing, qualitative interviews and focus groups; tailored messaging and feedback; and responsive design for mobile technology. The intervention component provides expertise in eHealth and mobile platforms and responsive web designs.