CORE--MEDICAL OUTCOMES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

维克森林大学的科学主题克劳德D.胡椒 美国老年人独立中心（OAIC） 培训方案（WFU-OAIC）是预防和治疗 通过使用 非药物行为疗法。该方案的研究 侧重于研究机制和结果，因为它们 到残疾。医学成果和社会科学（MOSS）核心 以多种方式与WFU-OAIC计划对接。的 MOSS核心提供开发和验证所需的专业知识 所用医疗结果主要子集的评估工具 既要评估干预措施的有效性， 残疾。此外，最低业务安全标准核心提供所需的专门知识， 将最先进的行为理论应用于 基于行为的干预，以及招聘，保留， 坚持战略。 最低业务安全标准核心的总体目标是提供广泛的 免费为WFU-OAIC计划的IS、IDS和试点提供服务 研究，以及医疗领域的培训和指导 初级研究者的成果和社会科学理论 与该计划有关。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），偏好缩放和效用分析，性能 测量和认知功能其他有关变数 属于最低业务安全标准核心领域的方案包括： 社会环境与社会资源;自我效能;因应技巧;生活 事件;人格变量;其他社会心理结构 理论上与我们对预防的理解有关， 晚年身体残疾的治疗;坚持;和经济 变量（例如，价格、支出、金融资产、健康保险）。 此外，MOSS核心以相对成本提供类似服务- 向与治疗相关的非计划研究收取有效费用， 预防晚年因慢性疾病而致残。的 最低业务安全标准核心的具体目标包括： 在开发，执行和分析医疗资源， 所有正在进行和计划的WFU的结果和心理社会变量- OAIC计划项目;（B）为教师提供专业知识， 开发涉及医疗结局的新项目，或 老年人的心理社会变量;为新的 （d）协助适当适用行为- （e）维持一个以理论为基础，以加强征聘和遵守; 更新了关于医疗结果的仪器和文章库， 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.