CAP-Assessment Core Boston

评估核心有四个主要目标，支持拟议和未来的临床试验， 流行病学研究：（1）建立统一的仪器和测量，并采用国家的， 具有良好心理测量特性的最先进的测量方法;（2）确保测量结果和预测因素 变量是相关的和敏感的现役军事精神和文化，以及退伍军人的 （3）培训和监督独立评估员， 必要时，对临床试验的诊断决策进行裁定，以进行评估者间的可靠性评估 录音的PTSD采访，并随着时间的推移塑造IE，以适应漂移;（4）与数据和 流行病学核心，用于创建数据字典，并管理和利用综合多研究数据集。 我们的团队在战争创伤评估方面具有专业知识（Litz，2007; Litz & Schlenger，2009; Steenkamp等人，2010; Stein等人，2012年），并在衡量风险和弹性方面拥有丰富的经验， 生命过程中的军事（Baker等人，2012; Dickstein等人，2010年）。基础设施建设在 STRONG星星配备齐全，可有效监督STRONG的测量和评估需求 星帽到目前为止，我们已经选择了最先进的结果和预测变量， 提供跨多个领域的内容覆盖，同时尊重服务成员和退伍军人的时间和 努力的限制。我们特别注意后者，并尽可能选择较简短的选项。罗纳德 查尔斯顿退伍军人医疗中心/南卡罗来纳州医科大学的Acierno组织了一次非正式的 研究联盟，由大约10名非NCPTSD研究者组成，位于整个 美国（见表5），致力于与评估核心和STRONG STAR-CAP合作。所有 的研究人员目前有VA，DoD或NIH的资金支持他们的PTSD研究。主要兴趣 是帮助确保一组公共数据元素（Kaloupek等人，2010年），收集 所有DoD和VA STRONG STAR-CAP附属研究（例如，共同的心理建构领域， 生物标志物等）。他们将他们的努力命名为VA/DoD PTSD CAP研究网站合作伙伴联盟， 通用数据元素。

The Assessment Core has four main objectives that support proposed and future clinical trials and epidemiological studies: (1) to create uniformity of instrumentation and measurement and to employ state-of- the-art measures with sound psychometric properties; (2) to ensure measurement of outcome and predictor variables that are relevant and sensitive to the active duty military ethos and culture as well as Veterans' experiences; (3) to train and to provide oversight and supervision of Independent Evaluators (IEs), to adjudicate diagnostic decisions for clinical trials when necessary, to conduct inter-rater reliability evaluations of taped PTSD interviews, and to shape IEs over time to obviate drift; and (4) to work with the Data and Epidemiological Cores to create a data dictionary and to manage and leverage the omnibus multi-study dataset. Our team has specialized expertise in the assessment of war-trauma (Litz, 2007; Litz & Schlenger, 2009; Steenkamp et al., 2010; Stein et al., 2012) and has extensive experience measuring risk and resilience in the military over the life-course (Baker et al., 2012; Dickstein et al., 2010). The infrastructure created under STRONG STAR is well-equipped to effectively oversee the measurement and assessment needs for STRONG STAR-CAP. To date, we have selected outcome and predictor variables that are state-of-the-art and that provide content coverage across multiple domains while respecting Service Members' and Veterans time-and- effort constraints. We were especially mindful of the latter and chose briefer options whenever possible. Ronald Acierno at the Charleston VA Medical Center/Medical University South Carolina has organized an informal research Consortium consisting of approximately 10 non-NCPTSD investigators located at VAs throughout the US (see Table 5) who are committed to partnering with the Assessment Core and the STRONG STAR-CAP. All of the investigators have current VA, DoD, or NIH funding to support their PTSD research. A primary interest of this group is to help ensure that a set of Common Data Elements (Kaloupek et al., 2010) are collected across all DoD and VA STRONG STAR-CAP-affiliated studies (e.g., common psychological construct domains, biomarkers, etc.). They have titled their effort the Coalition of VA/DoD PTSD CAP Study Site Partners for Common Data Elements.