CORE B: MEASUREMENT AND METHODS CORE
| Title of Core: |
Methods and Measurement Core |
| Project Leader: |
Arch G. Mainous, III, Ph.D. |
| Position Title: |
Professor, Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine |
| Sponsoring Unit: |
MUSC Department of Biometry and Epidemiology |
| Address: |
171 Ashley Avenue, Charleston 29425 |
The general goal of the measurement core is to identify, create, and catalogue culturally sensitive
measurements
and provide training and resources for measurement selection by investigators. This goal will
be addressed through the following specific aims:
- We will identify, modify and create culturally sensitive measures that address the special health-related
issues of older African American populations including an awareness of rural residence as a
culturally important factor,
- We will develop and test strategies for enhancing culturally sensitive methods for collecting patient
level data, and patient attitudes toward collection of data for older African American populations
using sophisticated qualitative and quantitative techniques.
- We will identify and catalogue
measures (see link) of health and determinants with an assessment of the
measures utility and demonstrated characteristics for use with older African American populations,
and
- We will work with other cores of the RCMAR to train investigators in issues regarding methods of
instrument selection, development and evaluation in the context of cultural competence for older
African American populations.
| Name | Organization | Role on Project |
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| Mainous, Arch | Medical University of South Carolina | Core Leader |
| Geesey, Mark | Medical University of South Carolina | Research Assistant |
| Smith, Daniel | Medical University of South Carolina | Co-Investigator |
| Tilley, Barbara C. | Medical University of South Carolina | Co-Investigator |
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