CORE--MEDICAL OUTCOMES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

维克森林大学的科学主题克劳德·D·佩珀 老年美国人独立中心(OAIC)研究和 培训计划(WFU-OAIC)是预防和治疗 通过使用慢性病使晚年身体残疾 非药物行为疗法。该项目的研究 重点研究机制和结果之间的关系 致残。医学成果与社会科学(MOSS)核心 以多种方式与WFU-OAIC计划对接。这个 MOSS Core提供开发和验证 所使用的主要医疗结果子集的评估工具 既要评估干预措施的效果，又要使其具有可操作性 残疾。此外，MOSS核心还提供了所需的专业知识 将最先进的行为理论应用于实施 基于行为的干预，以及招募、保留和 坚持战略。 Moss Core的总体目标是提供广泛的 向WFU-OAIC计划的IS、IDS和Pilot免费提供服务 研究，以及医疗领域的培训和指导 初级调查人员的成果和社会科学理论 与该计划相关联。医疗结果在这里被广泛使用 包括：健康相关生活质量(HRQL)、成本效益 分析(CE)、偏好调整和效用分析、性能 测量和认知功能。其他相关的变数 属于MOSS核心领域的程序，包括： 社会环境和社会资源；自我效能感；应对技巧；生活 事件；个性变量；其他被认为是心理社会结构 理论上与我们对预防和预防的理解有关 晚年身体残疾的治疗；坚持；以及经济 可变因素(例如，价格、支出、金融资产、健康保险)。 此外，MOSS Core以相对较低的成本提供类似的服务- 对与治疗和治疗相关的非计划研究收取有效费用 预防晚年慢性病造成的身体残疾。这个 MOSS核心的具体目标包括：(A)作为主要 医疗资源的开发、执行和分析 所有正在进行和计划中的WFU的结果和心理社会变量- OAIC方案项目；(B)向教师提供专业知识 开发新的项目，涉及医疗成果或 老年人的心理社会变量；为新员工提供培训 调查员；(D)协助适当应用行为-- 以理论为基础，加强招聘和遵守；(E)保持 关于医疗结果和医疗结果的最新仪器和文章库 心理社会变量。

The scientific theme of the Wake Forest University Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) Research and Training Program (WFU-OAIC) is the prevention and treatment of physical disability from chronic diseases in late life through the use of non-pharmacological behavior-based therapies. The Program's research focuses on the study of both mechanisms and outcomes as they relate to disability. The Medical Outcomes and Social Sciences (MOSS) Core interfaces with the WFU-OAIC Program in a number of ways. The MOSS Core provides the expertise needed to develop and validate the assessment instruments for a major subset of medical outcomes used both to evaluate the efficacy of interventions and to operationalize disability. In addition, the MOSS Core provides the expertise needed to apply state-of-the-art behavior theory to the implementation of behavior-based interventions, as well as to recruitment, retention, and adherence strategies. The overall aim of the MOSS Core is to provide a broad range of services at no cost to the WFU-OAIC Program's IS', IDS' and Pilot studies, as well as training and mentoring in the areas of Medical Outcomes and Social Science Theories for junior investigators associated with the Program. Medical Outcomes are used broadly here to include: Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL), Cost-Effectiveness Analyses (CE), preference scaling and utility analyses, performance measures, and cognitive functioning. Other variables relevant to the Program that fall within the domain of the MOSS core, include: the social environment and social resources; self-efficacy; coping skills; life events; personality variables; other psychosocial constructs deemed theoretically relevant to our understanding of the prevention and treatment of physical disability in later years; adherence; and economic variables (e.g., prices, expenditures, financial assets, health insurance). In addition, the MOSS Core provides similar services at relatively cost- efficient fees to non-Program studies related to the treatment and prevention of physical disability from chronic diseases in later life. The Specific Aims of the MOSS Core include: (a) serving as the primary resource in the development, execution and analyses of medical outcomes and psychosocial variables in all ongoing and planned WFU- OAIC Program projects; (b) provide expertise to faculty in the development of new projects that involve Medical Outcomes or Psychosocial variables in older adults; provide training for new investigators; (d) assist in the appropriate application of behavior- based theory to enhance recruitment and adherence; (e) maintain an updated library of instruments and articles on Medical Outcomes and Psychosocial variables.