CORE--MEASUREMENT AND METHODS

测量核心的总体目标是识别、创建和编目文化上敏感的测量，并为调查人员的测量选择提供培训和资源。这一目标将通过以下具体目标来实现： 1.我们将确定、修改和创建文化敏感措施，以解决老年非裔美国人群体的特殊健康相关问题，包括认识到农村居住是文化上的重要因素， 2.我们将制定和测试战略，以增强收集患者水平数据的文化敏感性方法，以及患者对使用复杂的定性和定量技术收集老年非裔美国人的数据的态度。 3.我们将对健康和决定因素的措施进行识别和编目，评估这些措施的效用和表现出的用于老年非裔美国人的特征，以及 4.我们将与RCMAR的其他核心合作，在关于老年非裔美国人文化能力的工具选择、开发和评估方法的问题上对调查人员进行培训。

The general goal of the measurement core is to identify, create, and catalogue culturally sensitive measurements and provide training and resources for measurement selection by investigators. This goal will be addressed through the following specific aims: 1. We will identify, modify and create culturally sensitive measures that address the special healthrelated issues of older African American populations including an awareness of rural residence as a culturally important factor, 2. We will develop and test strategies for enhancing culturally sensitive methods for collecting patient level data, and patient attitudes toward collection of data tbr older African American populations using sophisticated qualitative and quantitative techniques. 3. We will idcntify and catalogue measures of health and determinants with an assessment of the measures utility and demonstrated characteristics for use with older African American populations, and 4. We will work with other cores ofthc RCMAR to train investigators in issues regarding methods of instrument selection, development and evaluation in the context of cultural competence for older African American populations.