CORE--BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES

行为和社会科学核心提供了一个结构，用于组织宾夕法尼亚大学在行为和社会科学方面的大量研究能力，并将这些资源集中在与艾滋病毒/艾滋病相关的研究上。其目标是通过促进将行为科学和社会科学的最新理论和方法论贡献纳入CFAR研究的全范围，从而推动艾滋病研究。为此，核心强调A)接触费城社区，特别是其少数群体；B)病例调查以确保将妇女和少数群体纳入CFAR研究；以及C)少数群体调查员和研究人员的参与。将在以下具体领域向CFAR调查人员提供援助：1)理论驱动的行为干预措施的设计、测试、实施和评估；2)社会科学研究方法的应用，包括调查构建、行为和精神症状的测量、社会统计、定性方法、方案评估、成本效益分析和社会政策分析；3)维持以社区为基础的研究网络，以便利调查人员接触社区人口和环境，如无家可归者收容所、公共住房、药物治疗中心、初级保健诊所和学校；4)通过维护定位器信息和参与者档案来协助病例查找和主观招募，这些档案包含关于居住在社区但未包括在UPHS临床数据库中的潜在研究对象的人口、行为风险和艾滋病毒状况信息；5)为失去后续行动的对象确定生命状态；6)维护相关公共使用数据文件库，并协助进行二次分析。

The Behavioral and Social Sciences Core provides a structure for organizing Penn's substantial research capacity in the behavioral and social sciences, and focusing those resources on HIV/AIDS-related research. The goal is to advance AIDS research by facilitating the inclusion of state-of-the-science theoretical and methodological contributions from behavioral and social sciences across the full spectrum of CFAR research. To that end the Core emphasizes A) outreach to the Philadelphia community, particularly to its minority populations, B) case finding to ensure the inclusion of women and minority subjects in CFAR studies, and C) the participation of minority investigators and research staff. Assistance will be provided to CFAR investigators in the following specific areas: 1) design, testing, implementation, and evaluation of theory-driven behavioral interventions; 2) the application of social science research methods including survey construction, measurement of behavior and psychiatric symptoms, social statistics, qualitative methods, program evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, and social policy analysis; 3) maintenance of a community-based research network to facilitate investigator access to community populations and settings such as homeless shelters, public housing, drug treatment centers, primary care clinics, and schools; 4) assistance with case finding and subjective recruitment by maintenance of locator information and participant file with demographic, behavioral risk, and HIV status information on potential research subjects living in the community who are not included in the UPHS clinical data base; 5) vital status determination for subjects lost to follow-up; 6) maintenance of a library of relevant public use data files, and assistance with secondary analysis.