THE MICHIGAN CENTER FOR HEALTH INTERVENTION (MICHIN)

描述（由申请人提供）：随机临床试验（RCT）比任何其他类型的研究更有能力发挥强大的，改变实践的影响，以改善人类健康。密歇根健康干预中心（Michigan Center for Health Intervention）汇集了密歇根大学护理和公共卫生两所排名靠前的学校的大量跨学科专业知识。我们的目标是扩大研究者的能力，使用分阶段RCT模型开发和测试健康促进/恢复干预措施。中心的资源将支持护士科学家及其同事推进他们的研究计划，以实现严格的III期（有效性）RCT，并最终在健康促进/恢复的特定科学领域进行IV期（有效性）RCT。健康促进需要建立弹性和自我效能，改善健康和疾病的范围，减少危险行为，并发展支持健康行为的环境。健康恢复旨在解决因疾病、伤害或压力造成的各种功能障碍或损害，并最大限度地提高身体、心理和认知功能、应对能力、家庭照顾能力和生活质量。MICHIN将由四个核心组成：行政，干预发展和测量，统计设计和分析以及翻译和传播。在MICHIN的赞助下，一群科学家将专注于不同年龄，种族/民族和健康状况的健康促进/恢复干预的共同要素。我们期待着有机会确定更大的见解健康促进/恢复干预研究比将可能从我们的个人努力在每个单独资助的项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The randomized clinical trial (RCT) more than any other type of study has the capacity to exert a powerful, practice-altering impact to improve human health. The Michigan Center for Health Intervention (MICHIN-pronounced mission) brings together substantive interdisciplinary expertise from two highly ranked Schools at the University of Michigan, Nursing and Public Health. Our goal to expand investigators' capacity to develop and test health promotion/restoration interventions using a phased RCT model. Center resources will support nurse scientists and their colleagues to advance their research programs toward rigorous Phase Ill (efficacy) RCTs and, ultimately, Phase IV (effectiveness) RCTs in the specific scientific area of inquiry of health promotion/restoration. Health promotion entails building resilience and self-efficacy, bettering health across the spectrum of health and illness, decreasing risky behavior, and developing environments that support healthy behaviors. Health restoration addresses various kinds of dysfunction or impairment that result from disease, injury, or stress and maximizes physical, psychological and cognitive functioning, coping, family caregiver capacity, and quality of life. MICHIN will be comprised of four cores: Administrative, Intervention Development & Measurement, Statistical Design & Analysis, and Translation & Dissemination. Under the auspices of MICHIN, a constellation of scientists will focus on the common elements of health promotion/restoration intervention across diverse ages, race/ethnicity, and health status. We look forward to the opportunity to identify greater insights about health promotion/restoration intervention research than would be possible from our individual efforts within each separately funded project.