OBESITY PREVENTION IN NATIVE AMERICANS--COORD CENTER

该建议是在生物统计部内设立一个 北卡罗来纳州大学，一个多学科的协调中心， 美国原住民肥胖预防中心的研究。 肥胖及其后果是美国原住民的主要健康问题 人口。 本研究建议进行一项以学校为基础的干预研究 评估预防儿童肥胖的方法。 协调 中心将与其他研究人员合作开发 方案、操作手册和数据收集表、培训 现场中心工作人员的数据收集程序，设计和进行 可靠性研究，设计和实施质量控制程序， 设计并实现了一个分布式数据管理系统， 统计专业知识的研究，进行数据的各个方面 分析，合作编写科学出版物， 结果，并组织、协调和记录所有会议， 调查人员 拟议协调中心的工作人员是 多学科与来自生物统计学系的教师， 流行病学、营养学、健康行为、健康教育与学校 护理。

This proposal is to establish, within the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina, a coordinating center for the multi- center study of obesity prevention in Native Americans Natives. Obesity and its consequences are major health problems in Native American populations. A school based intervention study is proposed to evaluate methods of preventing obesity in children. The coordinating center will collaborate with the other investigators in the development of the protocol, manual of operations and data collection forms, train field center staff in the data collection procedures, design and conduct reliability studies, design and implement a quality control program, design and implement a distributed data management system, provide statistical expertise for all aspects of the study, conduct data analysis, collaborate in the preparation of scientific publications of the results and organize, coordinate and take minutes of all meetings of the investigators. The staff of the proposed coordinating center is multidisciplinary with faculty from the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Nutrition, Health Behavior, Health Education and the School of Nursing.