CORE--MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION

减少口腔健康差异研究中心（CRROHD）涉及的项目范围从焦点小组到临床和行为干预试验以及卫生服务研究。由于每个项目都有特定的仪器开发、研究设计和分析需求，测量与评估（M&E）核心将为每项研究量身定制支持。M&e核心将为所有CRROHD项目和调查人员提供建议、教育、咨询以及定性和定量分析。M&E核心将继续与主要项目、试点项目和附属项目调查员合作，完善协议和数据收集工具；确定随机化时间表、数据管理、监测、质量控制和可靠性计划；协调，整合来自不同项目的数据库，以实现更强大，独特的多变量分析；集中协调项目评估活动；以重大研究中间成果试点和居民、研究生、博士后、教师的相关工作为基础，促进高质量科研的发展；并向科学顾问委员会和数据安全监测委员会报告研究信息。监测和评估核心将在汇集项目方面发挥重要作用，特别是指出它们的共性和区别，并在现有项目的基础上与调查人员合作制定后续项目。与研究过程中的任何其他步骤一样，将给予研究的定性和定量分析方面足够的时间和精力。M&E核心人员在仪器和量表开发、评估、流行病学、生物统计学、数据管理、健康心理学、医学人类学和医学地理学方面拥有丰富的多学科合作研究经验，可以充分满足这些需求。

The Center for Research to Reduce Oral Health Disparities (CRROHD) involves projects ranging from focus groups to clinical and behavioral intervention trials and health services research. The Measurement and Evaluation (M&E) Core will tailor support for each study, since each project has specific instrument development, research design and analysis needs. The M&e Core will provide advice, education, consulting and qualitative and quantitative analysis to all CRROHD projects and investigators. The M&E Core will continue to work with main project, pilot project, and affiliated project investigators to refine protocols and data collection instruments; will finalize plans for randomization schedules, data management, monitoring, quality control and reliability; coordinate, integrating databases from different projects to enable more powerful, unique multivariable analyses; centralize and coordinate program evaluation activities; promote the development of quality research studies based on pilot projects on intermediate results on major studies, and on related endeavors from residents, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty; and report study information to the scientific advisory board and the data safety monitoring board. The M&E Core will play a major role in bringing projects together, particularly noting their commonalities and distinctions, and in building upon current projects to work with investigators develop subsequent projects. Sufficient time and effort will be given to the qualitative and quantitative analytic aspects of research, as with any other step in the research process. The M&E Core personnel have a wealth of multidisciplinary collaborative research experience in instrument and scale development, evaluation, epidemiology, biostatistics, data management, health psychology, and medical anthropology, and medical geography to adequately fulfill those needs.