Full Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Self-Management Research

描述(由申请人提供)：本竞争性修订申请是对通知编号(NOT-OD-09-058)的响应-《恢复法》为竞争性修订申请提供资金。在这一竞争性修订申请中，我们将在现有的P30拨款的基础上增加一组新的资源，即自我管理研究卓越中心(SMART中心)(P30 NR01 0676)。为SMART中心提议的一个新实验室，名为FIND(完全纳入残疾人)，将在我们的方法和统计核心中提供一套资源，向调查人员提供有关使用通用设计原则设计干预措施及其交付和数据收集方法的资源，以更充分地纳入残疾人。我们将首先关注视力和听力受损的人(通常被排除在研究之外或从我们正在测试的干预措施的最终用户中受益的人)。在Find实验室，我们将研究残疾人如何自我管理，我们将找到那些现在经常被研究人员看不见的残疾人。 作为这一新倡议的一部分，我们在以下几个层面建立了新的合作：(1)新学科(残疾人工程学、教师和康复专家、通信科学)，(2)新的社区机构(克利夫兰视力中心和克利夫兰听力和言语中心)，(3)新的大学中心(预防研究中心，行为测量核心设施)，(4)大学(莱曼护理学院)，以及(5)NINR资助的跨自我管理中心。 我们SMART中心的一个主要目标不是复制，而是通过向SMART中心以及合作的大学和社区机构的研究人员提供新服务来扩大研究基础设施支持。Find实验室提供的与使用通用设计原则有关的新设计的咨询和直接服务是研究人员独特且迫切需要的基础设施支持。对过程和结果的全面评估将帮助我们衡量FIND实验室的成功程度，并促进其作为SMART中心的一部分的可持续性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Competitive Revision Application is in response to Notice Number (NOT-OD-09-058) - Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications. In this competitive revision application, we are adding a new set of resources to an existing P30 grant, Center of Excellence in Self-Management Research (SMART Center) (P30 NR01 0676). A new laboratory proposed for the SMART Center, named FIND (Full INclusion of people with Disabilities), will offer a set of resources in our Methods & Statistics Core to provide resources to investigators about the use of Universal Design principles to design interventions and their delivery and data collection methods for fuller inclusion of people with disabilities. We will concentrate first on people with sight and hearing loss (people often excluded from research or from benefiting from being end-users of the interventions we are testing). In the FIND Laboratory, we will be FINDing out how people with disabilities can self-manage and we will be FINDing the people with disabilities who often are invisible to researchers now. As part of this new initiative, we have built new collaborations on several levels: (1) new disciplines (engineering, teachers and rehabilitation specialists of persons with disabilities, communication science), (2) new community agencies (Cleveland Sight Center and Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center), (3) new University Centers (Prevention Research Center, Behavioral Measurement Core Facility), (4) Universities (Lehman College of Nursing), and (5) across NINR-funded Self-Management Centers. A major goal of our SMART Center is not to replicate, but rather to expand, research infrastructure support by offering new services to researchers in the SMART Center and the collaborating universities and community agencies. The newly designed consultation and direct services related to the use of Universal Design Principles offered in the FIND Lab are unique and highly-needed infrastructure supports for researchers. A thorough evaluation of process and outcomes will assist us to measure the success of the FIND Lab and promote its sustainability as part of the SMART Center.