Assessing Quality of Life for Rehabilitation Patients

描述(由申请人提供)：我于2000年在德克萨斯大学医学院分校预防医学和社区健康研究生项目中获得博士学位。他的论文题目是“老年非西班牙裔白人、黑人和墨西哥裔美国人的情绪幸福感和随后的健康、功能能力和死亡率。”在完成博士学位后，他在马里兰州贝塞斯达的国家老龄研究所(NIA)担任流行病学、人口学和生物统计学实验室的客座研究员。在NIA期间，他是妇女健康和老龄化研究以及希伯来人之家损伤和运动研究的调查员。自2001年7月以来，他一直是UTMB老年病学部的助理教授，共同负责康复科学方面的教职。 职业目标。我的长期职业目标是开发一个独立资助的康复成果领域的研究计划。他特别感兴趣的是，生活质量等概念如何与残疾人和慢性病患者的功能恢复有关。为了实现这一目标，他的直接和具体的职业目标是：1)发展对生活质量的理解，包括医疗康复和残疾文献中描述的满意度和参与度；2)建立用于指导康复研究的概念框架的工作知识，重点是世卫组织ICF残疾模式和国际移民组织的使能-残疾过程；3)获得数据管理方面的专业知识；4)发展项目反应理论(RASCH分析)的技能和专业知识，并利用这些知识检查伤害、残疾和慢性病的生活质量测量；5)在高影响力同行评议期刊上发表研究文章；6)在国家跨学科会议上展示研究成果；7)作为主要研究人员获得赠款资金(即RO1资金)，以开展残疾、康复和生活质量领域的研究；以及8)全面了解与科学诚信和负责任地开展涉及人类的研究有关的问题。 研究计划。研究计划包括使用国家康复结果数据库检查生活质量变量(满意度和参与度)。具体目的包括检查患者满意度和参与度的心理测量学特征，以及功能状态变化与这些变量之间的关系。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): I completed MY Ph.D. in 2000 from the Graduate Program in Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). His dissertation was titled, "Emotional well-being and subsequent health, functional ability and mortality in older non-Hispanic whites, blacks, and Mexican Americans." After completing his Ph.D., he served as a guest researcher at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry in Bethesda, Maryland. While at the NIA he was an investigator on the Women's Health and Aging Study and the Hebrew Home Study of Impairments and Exercise. He has been assistant professor in the Division of Geriatrics at UTMB since July 2001, with joint faculty responsibilities in Rehabilitation Sciences. Career Goals. My long-term career goal is to develop an independently funded research program in the area of rehabilitation outcomes. He is particularly interested in how concepts such as quality of life are related to recovery of functional performance in persons with disability and chronic disease. His immediate and specific career objectives to achieve this goal are to 1) Develop an understanding of quality of life including satisfaction and participation as described in the medical rehabilitation and disability literature; 2) Establish a working knowledge of conceptual frameworks used to guide research in rehabilitation with a focus on the WHO ICF disablement model and the IOM's Enabling-Disabling Process; 3) Acquire expertise in data management; 4) Develop skills and expertise in item response theory (Rasch analysis) and use this knowledge to examine quality of life measures in injury, disability and chronic disease; 5) Publish research articles in high impact peer reviewed journals; 6) Present research outcomes at national interdisciplinary conferences; 7) Obtain grant funding (i.e., RO1 funding) as a principal investigator to conduct research in the areas of disability, recovery and quality of life; and 8) Develop a comprehensive understanding of issues associated with scientific integrity and the responsible conduct of research involving humans. Research Plan. The Research Plan includes examination of quality of life variables (satisfaction and participation) using a national database of rehabilitation outcomes. The Specific Aims include examining the psychometric characteristics of patient satisfaction and participation and the relationship between change in functional status and these variables.