Colorado Consortium for Health Behavior Change

描述(由申请者提供)：科罗拉多州心肺疾病健康行为改变联盟：行为机制的增强理论和模型。摘要：这项提案要求支持在两年内召开8次季度会议，将活跃在心肺疾病领域的经验丰富的临床研究人员组成的非常多样化的联盟聚集在一起，将健康行为改变作为关键焦点。这项会议提案的广泛和长期目标是允许联盟成员评估和加强现有的健康行为变化理论模型，从而促进用于心肺疾病的改进的预防和干预策略的开发。本次会议提案的具体目标是：1)确定和评估与心肺疾病相关的三个关键层面的现有健康行为变化模型所指定的行为变化机制的证据；2)改进和整合现有模型，以便在针对心肺疾病的研究中更好地提供健康行为变化的信息；以及3)制定战略计划，测试健康行为变化的多学科模型的使用，并为参加联合会会议的初级研究人员提供职业发展机会和资源。将尽一切努力鼓励妇女参与，并将少数群体和残疾人纳入联合会会议。这项提议的意义在于，健康行为，如缺乏体育活动、暴饮暴食和吸烟，是心肺疾病发展和病程中的主要因素，事实证明，这些因素相对较难改变。尽管如何改变健康行为的理论和模型在研究界得到了一定程度的关注，但这种关注通常不会像我们建议的那样在多个层面上检验理论，而且大多数先前使用理论产生的预防和干预努力通常只有部分有效、代价高昂，而且不容易转化为“现实世界”环境。这项提议支持的财团活动经过精心规划，以创建新的合作研究团队，通过更多地关注和战略性地使用多层次理论模型，将在心肺疾病领域开发更强大的预防和干预努力，覆盖范围更广、效率更高、可采纳性更强。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Colorado Consortium for Health Behavior Change in Cardiopulmonary Illness: Enhancing Theory and Models of Behavioral Mechanisms. Abstract: This proposal requests support to bring together for 8 quarterly meetings over 2 years a very diverse consortium of highly experienced clinical researchers active in the area of cardiopulmonary illness with health behavior change as a key focus. The broad and long-term goal of this conference proposal is to allow consortium members of appraise and enhance existing theoretical models of health behavior change and thereby foster development of improved prevention and intervention strategies for use in cardiopulmonary illness. The specific aims of this conference proposal are: 1) to identify and appraise evidence about behavior change mechanisms specified by existing models of health behavior change across three key levels, individual, relational-community, and economic-systemic, of relevance to cardiopulmonary illness; 2) to refine and integrate existing models to better inform health behavior change in research addressing cardiopulmonary illness; and 3) to develop a strategic plan for testing the use of multidisciplinary models for health behavior change as well as to offer career-development opportunities and resources for the junior investigators attending consortium meetings. Every effort will be made to encourage participation of women and to include minorities and persons with disabilities in Consortium meetings. The significance of this proposal is that health behaviors, such as physical inactivity, overeating and smoking, are major factors in the development and course of cardiopulmonary illness that have proven relatively difficult to change. Although theories and models of how to change health behaviors receive some degree of attention within the research community, such attention typically does not examine theory across multiple levels as we propose to do, and the prevention and intervention efforts arising from most prior use of theory typically has been only partially effective, costly, and not easily translated into "real world" settings. The Consortium activities to be supported by this proposal have been carefully planned to lead to the creation of new collaborative research teams which through greater focus upon and strategic use of multilevel theoretical models will develop more robust prevention and intervention efforts with greater reach, effectiveness, and adoptability in the area of cardiopulmonary illness.