Develop and Test a Tool for Training Research Responders in Emergency Operations

 描述(由申请人提供)：美国政府已投资数十亿美元来制定有效的备灾和应对战略。正在进行的灾害行动缺乏实时收集数据和进行研究的能力，以便更好地为正在进行的应对和恢复工作以及未来事件提供信息。尽管大部分备灾培训侧重于第一反应人员，也有一些针对第二反应人员的培训，但培训研究反应人员(RR)的培训还很少。灾害研究响应项目(DR2)由NIEHS与国家医学图书馆(NLM)合作开发，负责提供现成的数据收集工具和响应方案，以及由熟悉这些工具的训练有素的研究响应人员组成的响应网络。TREO--应急行动培训研究响应者是一个创新的在线学习产品，专门解决如何将应急响应整合到灾难行动中。研究人员可以在方便的时候使用该工具--要么提前使用，要么作为部署到灾区之前的即时培训。对于我们的第一阶段工作，深入的访谈将指导TREO的开发，随后是原型的可用性测试，以及在培训结束时和三个月后对RR知识收益的前后评估。我们还建议为其他应急人员进行演示，以表明TREO类似游戏的环境是否适用于满足其他应急人员的培训需求。这一工具将有助于改变新的培训技术如何推动备灾工作的模式，方法是使用虚拟世界教会驻地协调员如何安全和有成效地融入任何类型的灾害行动。TREO的商业应用潜力远远超出了NIEHS的RRS网络，包括提供灾害管理课程的学校、公共或私人研究组织、独立研究人员以及可能开展自然灾害或故意灾害研究或签订合同的州和地方机构。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The United States government has invested billions of dollars to develop effective disaster preparedness and response strategies. Missing from ongoing disaster operations is the ability to collect data and conduct research in real time in order to better inform ongoing response and recovery efforts as well as future events. Although much of disaster preparedness training has focused on first responders, and some training for second responders, little is yet available to train Research Responders (RRs). The Disaster Research Response Project (DR2), developed by NIEHS in collaboration with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is charged with providing readily available data collection tools and response protocols as well as a response network of trained research responders familiar with those tools. TREO--Training Research Responders for Emergency Operations is an innovative online learning product that specifically addresses how RRs can be integrated into disaster operations. Researchers can use the tool at their convenience -- either in advance or as just-in-time training before deployment into a disaster area. For our Phase I effort, in depth interviews will guide the development of TREO, followed by usability testing of the prototype as well as a pre- and post-assessment of RR knowledge gains at the conclusion of training and three months later. We also suggest conducting demonstrations for other emergency response personnel to provide an indication of the applicability of TREO's game-like environment to meet the training needs of other responder populations. This tool will contribute to shifting the paradigm of how novel training technologies can drive disaster preparedness by using virtual worlds to teach RRs how to integrate safely and productively into any type of disaster operation. The potential for commercial application of TREO goes well beyond the NIEHS network of RRs to include schools offering disaster management curricula, public or private research organizations, independent researchers, and state and local agencies that may conduct or contract for research on natural or intentional disasters.