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分部（UTMB）完成了预防医学和社区卫生研究生课程的博士学位。他的论文题目是“非西班牙裔白人、黑人和墨西哥裔美国老年人的情感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美国国家老龄化研究所（NIA）、流行病学、人口统计学和生物计量学实验室担任客座研究员。在NIA期间，他是妇女健康和衰老研究以及希伯来损伤和运动家庭研究的调查员。自2001年7月起，他一直担任UTMB老年病学部门的助理教授，并在康复科学方面担任联合教职。

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.