CADC Measurement and Methods Core Seminars
The Measurement and Methods Core (MMC) provides training in the specialized methods and measurement issues needed to conduct research relevant to minority aging to CADC scholars and other UCSF investigators. The training provided to CADC scholars complements the Investigator Development Core. Methodological training is provided through formal courses and lectures, methods seminars and Workshops delivered to UCSF investigators at a variety of campus locations (MMC Seminars; MMC Workshops), as well as presentations and workshops at professional meetings. Formal courses include Research in Health Disparities (EPI 222), co-taught by MMC faculty, led by Dr. Pérez-Stable; Measurement in Clinical Research (EPI 225) taught regularly by Dr. Stewart; and a new social epidemiology course created by Dr. Yen, which features race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and childhood and life course exposures. The following list summarizes the training provided by the MMC during the funding cycle 2007 – 2011.
Quantitative Methods
2007 (July-Dec)
MMC Seminar: Missing data and multiple imputation: conceptual introduction
EPI225: Factor analysis methods
2008
MMC Seminar: Repeated measures models with multiple, correlated random effects.
EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: moderation
EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: mediation.
EPI225: Factor analysis methods
2009
MMC Workshop: Multiple imputation in SAS
MMC Seminar: Estimating and testing mediated effects with binary mediators and/or binary outcomes
EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: moderation
EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: mediation.
EPI225: Factor analysis methods
2010
MMC Seminar: Power Analysis for Clustered Sampling Designs with Stochastic X variables
EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: moderation
EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: mediation.
2011
MMC Seminar: Comparing effects across nested logistic regression models
American Geriatric Society Annual Meeting: Research programs and issues series “Methodological issues in research with diverse populations:” Adjusting for SES in disparities research - a lifecourse perspective
EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: moderation
EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: mediation.
General Measurement Issues
2007 (Jul-Dec)
EPI225: measurement in clinical research (10 lectures)
2008
EPI222: Identifying and selecting self-report health measures for health disparities research
EPI222: Measurement issues in research in diverse populations including health disparities research
EPI225: measurement in clinical research (10 lectures)
2009
GSA preconference workshop: A framework for understanding modifications to measures in studies of diverse groups
EPI222: Identifying and selecting self-report health measures for health disparities research
EPI222: Measurement issues in research in diverse populations including health disparities research
EPI225: measurement in clinical research (10 lectures)
2010
EPI222: Identifying and selecting self-report health measures for health disparities research
EPI222: Measurement issues in research in diverse populations including health disparities research
2011
EPI222: Identifying and selecting self-report health measures for health disparities research
EPI222: Measurement issues in research in diverse populations including health disparities research
Issues with Specific Measures
2007 (Jul-Dec)
MMC Seminar: Physician ratings of language interpretation methods
2008
MMC Seminar: Childhood social and economic circumstances of older adults: preliminary results from a new survey instrument
EPI222: Measuring neighborhood environment
2009
MMC Seminar: Conceptualizing and improving measures of racial discrimination for health disparities research in older African Americans
EPI222: Measuring neighborhood environment
GSA preconference workshop: Discrimination measures in diverse groups
GSA: NIA Technical assistance workshop: Measuring childhood social and economic circumstances
2010
MMC Seminar: Using mixed methods to investigate neighborhood, activity spaces, and health of older adults
Qualitative methods
2007 (Jul-Dec)
UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness: Qualitative research methods
MMC Seminar: applications of qualitative methods for clinical research.
2008
MMC Seminar: Interactive seminar on focus group and qualitative data analysis. 1-hour didactic presentation + 1-hour in-depth session
EPI222: Using mixed methods in health disparities research
2009
MMC/IDC Seminar: Qualitative methods to enhance conceptual adequacy and construct validity of self-report measures
EPI222: Using mixed methods in health disparities research
MMC Seminar: Qualitative research methods
MMC Seminar/Family Services Agency San Francisco: How to use cognitive interviews to pretest assessment instruments
2010
EPI222: Using mixed methods in health disparities research
2011
MMC Seminar: Using mixed methods in mental health disparities research
EPI222: Using mixed methods in health disparities research
Translation of Evidence-based Interventions
2007 (Jul-Dec)
MMC Seminar and also Northland Chapter, American College of Sports Medicine Tutorial Program. “Increasing physical activity in older adults: Adapting the Community Healthy Activities Model Program for Seniors (CHAMPS) to reach ethnically diverse seniors.
2008
UC Berkeley course in health behavior and UCSF Psychology and Medicine fellows: Translational research: experiences implementing a lifestyle program to reduce disparities in diabetes risk in minority populations
MMC Seminar: Update on academic-community partnership to implement a lifestyle program to reduce disparities in diabetes risk
2009
Community Academic Research Training Alliance (CARTA) fellows: Using qualitative methods to develop and test evidence-based interventions in diverse older communities
MMC Seminar: Developing a culturally competent peer support intervention for Spanish-speaking Latinas with breast cancer
2010
Pre-conference workshop, American Psycho-Oncology Association annual meeting, entitled “Key steps to adapting evidence-based psychosocial interventions for Latinas.”
EPI245 course on translational research: Methods of conducting translational research in minority and lower-income communities
MMC Seminar: Developing culturally sensitive dementia caregiver interventions.
Community Academic Research Training Alliance (CARTA) fellows: Using qualitative methods to develop and test evidence-based interventions in diverse older communities
2011
MMC Seminar: Nuevo Amanecer: a community-based RCT of a psychosocial health intervention for Latinas with breast cancer
RCMAR annual meeting: Translating evidence-based practices into community settings”
MMC Seminar: Translating evidence-based practices into community settings”
Pathways to Health Disparities
2007 (Jul-Dec)
MMC Seminar: Psychosocial support services for Latinas with breast cancer
2008
UC Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative: Place matters: how neighborhoods provide opportunities and threats to health.
MMC Seminar: Discrimination, distrust, and antiretroviral therapy adherence in HIV+ patients
2009
MMC Seminar: Place and health connections for older adults: preliminary results from a qualitative research study
MMC Seminar: Colorectal cancer screening discussions with Latino patients
2010
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California Breast Cancer Research Program Symposium:
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Nuevo Amanecer: enhancing the psychosocial health of Latinas with breast cancer
2011
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