Assessing Quality of Life for Rehabilitation Patients

描述（由申请人提供）：我完成了我的博士学位。2000年从德克萨斯大学医学分支（UTMB）预防医学和社区卫生研究生课程毕业。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感幸福和随后的健康、功能能力和死亡率”。“在完成博士学位后，他曾在位于马里兰州贝塞斯达的国家老龄化研究所（NIA）流行病学、人口统计学和生物统计学实验室担任客座研究员。在NIA期间，他是妇女健康与老龄化研究和希伯来家庭损伤与运动研究的研究员。自2001年7月以来，他一直是UTMB老年医学部的助理教授，在康复科学方面担任联合教师职务。 职业目标。我的长期职业目标是在康复成果领域开发一个独立资助的研究项目。他特别感兴趣的概念，如生活质量是如何与残疾人和慢性病患者的功能表现的恢复。他实现这一目标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WHO ICF残疾模型和IOM的赋能-残疾过程; 3）获得数据管理方面的专业知识; 4）发展项目反应理论方面的技能和专业知识（Rasch分析），并利用这些知识来检查伤害，残疾和慢性疾病的生活质量措施; 5）在高影响力的同行评审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）获得赠款资金（即，RO 1资金）作为主要研究者在残疾，康复和生活质量领域进行研究;和8）发展与科学诚信和负责任的人类研究行为相关的问题的全面理解。 研究计划。该研究计划包括利用国家康复成果数据库对生活质量变量（满意度和参与）进行检查。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.