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PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Sponsored by Division 20 of the APA This workshop will provide a tutorial on the use of multilevel modeling to analyze data from intensive measurement designs (e.g., daily diary, experience sampling, measurement bursts). The focus will be on how to use multilevel modeling to answer questions regarding the within-person coupling of variables (e.g., negative affect, working memory, and daily stress) across time. The workshop will provide example-based instruction on model formulation (i.e., choosing the general form of the statistical model), inference (i.e., conduction statistical tests of research hypotheses) and diagnostics (i.e., assessing plausibility of model assumptions). In addition we will cover some conceptual and practical issues regarding study design and power consideration. Three example data sets will be used that represent different approaches to the study of intraindividual variability: daily diary data involving 1 assessment per day, experience sampling data involving multiple assessments per day across multiple days, and measurements bursts which involve conducting repeated daily diary or experience sampling assessments longitudinally (e.g., every six months). Instruction will make use of SAS (PROC MIXED) and workshop participants will be provided with example programs and datasets for the analysis of intraindividual variability for all three types of designs. The use of SAS macros for conducting power analysis for multilevel designs will also be covered. Faculty: Shevaun D. Neupert, PhD (Co-Chair of APA’s Division 20 CE Committee, Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University); Martin J. Sliwinski, PhD (Professor of Psychology, Syracuse University). Designing and Testing Interventions The need for evidence-based interventions for our burgeoning aging population is urgent. This session will review the steps that investigators need to take in developing, designing, and testing interventions in order to contribute to this growing evidence base. The presenters are all experienced in this field, have conducted numerous intervention studies with funding from NIH and other sources and will emphasize the need for: 1) a theoretical framework to inform the intervention design, 2) coping with implementation issues including recruitment, retention and treatment fidelity, 3) impeccable, cutting edge and appropriate methods for intervention testing and 4) incorporating the Re-Aim framework in order speed the process of moving from efficacy testing to translation and diffusion of efficacious interventions. Faculty: Susan L. Hughes, D.S.W. (Co-Director, Center for Research on Health and Aging, University of Illinois at Chicago); Rachel Seymour, PhD (Senior Research Associate, Center for Research on Health and Aging, University of Illinois at Chicago); Thomas Prohaska, PhD (Co-Director and Professor, Center for Research on Health and Aging, University of Illinois at Chicago). Evaluating Geriatrics Education with Multiple Stakeholders: Using Logic and Intuition to Link Secondary and Tertiary Outcomes The purpose of this pre-conference workshop is to discuss logic models and evaluation of secondary and tertiary outcomes to meet the ongoing grant requirements of federally funded GECs. The NTACC acknowledges that the 48 Federally funded GECs are at different stages of development and sophistication when it comes to skills and planning for varied evaluation methods. This Institute provides the opportunity for members to exchange ideas at a national forum. GECs educate and train health professional faculty, students, and practitioners in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention of disease, disability, and other health problems of the aged. They are legislatively mandated to improve the training of health professionals in geriatrics; develop and disseminate curricula relating to the treatment of the health problems of elderly individuals; support the training and retraining of faculty to provide instruction in geriatrics; support continuing education of health professionals who provide geriatric care; and provide students with clinical training in geriatrics in nursing homes, chronic and acute disease hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and senior centers. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of their educational and training offerings in improving the health status and health outcomes of older adults, GECs collect data on primary, secondary, and tertiary outcomes. However, some GECs are challenged by the tasks of showing linkages between primary, secondary (change in knowledge among practitioners), and tertiary outcomes within a variety of practice settings and across varied projects that have been articulated in their individual grants. Achieving these outcomes requires quantitative and qualitative measurement of indicators relative to patients, with an eye toward capturing contextual factors along the way. It also involves the triangulation of primary, secondary and tertiary evidence in both the practitioner and patient domains. This type of planning is comprehensive and stakeholder-based, often requiring buy in from internal (academic departments) and external (work sites) personnel. During this workshop, participants will gain an understanding of the processes involved with data collection and reporting of primary, secondary, and tertiary outcomes. They will also have an opportunity to develop or extend their own logic models. Faculty: Janet Frank, DrPH (Co-Principal Investigator, NTACC-UCLA Regional Site); Julianne Manchester, PhD, MA (National Training and Coordination Collaborative (NTACC) Project Director, CWRU at Metro Health); Julia Rose, PhD, MA (Principal Investigator, NTACC-CWRU Central Office); Kathleen Ondus, MSN, RN, CNS, BC (WRGEC Associate Director, CWRU at Metro Health); Elyse Perweiler, MPP, RN, (Co-Principal Investigator, NTACC-UMDNJ Regional Site); Joan Weiss, PhD, RN, CRNP Acting Director, Division of Nursing, Health Resources and Services Administration). How to Publish Sponsored by the GSA Publications Committee This pre-conference workshop is presented annually by the Publications Committee of GSA. It is designed for anyone who would like to learn more about how to get published in peer-reviewed journals, including students and those who have not yet published their research. Topics presented include manuscript preparation and the peer-review process. Participants are encouraged to engage in discussions and ask questions of the editors. Faculty: Rosemary Blieszner, PhD (Editor, Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences); Kenneth Ferraro, PhD (Editor, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences), Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD (Editor, Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences), William McAuley, PhD (Editor, The Gerontologist), Huber Warner, PhD (Editor, Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences) Recruitment and Retention for Minority Aging Research/An NIA Translational Conference to Promote the National Research Council's Recommendations for Minority Aging Research Sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, Resource Center for Minority Aging Research Funded in part by The National Institute on Aging and University of California, Los Angeles The workshop will open with an agenda-setting presentation stating the overarching concerns and objectives of the conference. Second, researchers will present their research projects and findings selected to represent the conference theme. The third component is concurrent interactive working sessions organized around strategies for improving recruitment in clinical research, population research, and research with American Indian and African American populations. The fourth and final component, a closing integrative session, will highlight key elements of recruitment plans. Reducing health disparities is a national goal and progress depends on the availability and continued expansion of a solid knowledge base that describes health disparities and analyzes the causal mechanisms that create and maintain the differences between groups in health outcomes. This workshop will provide a career development forum to review critical research, explore resources and advance the research agenda on diversity issues. Faculty: Janet C. Frank, DrPH (Assistant Director for Academic Programs, UCLA Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology; Director, Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research Coordinating Center); Sidney M. Stahl, PhD (Chief, Individual Behavioral Process Branch, Behavioral and Social Research Program, National Institute on Aging); James S. Jackson, PhD (Director, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan); Reagan W. Durrant, MD, MPH (Assistant Professor, Division of Preventative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham); Jose L. Calderon, MD (Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, Director, Center for Cross-Cultural Epidemiologic Studies); Charles R. Drew (University of Medicine and Science). Translating Evidence-based Dementia Caregiver Interventions to Social Service Agencies Sponsored by the GSA Behavioral and Social Sciences Section, the Administration on Aging, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Alzheimer’s Association Funded by the Administration on Aging, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Alzheimer’s Association The workshop will begin with brief opening remarks from representatives of AoA, CDC, and the Alzheimer’s Association. During the first three hours of this workshop, attendees will hear presentations of four different evidence-based dementia caregiver interventions: Alabama REACH, Savvy Caregiver, the Environmental Skills-Building Program (ESP), and the NYUCI Program. Each of these programs is being translated through different social service agencies (AAAs, managed care, Alzheimer’s Association Chapters, Home Care and Family Services). Also, the target caregivers span rural, urban, economically disadvantaged, and culturally diverse (Black/African American, White/Caucasian, Hispanic /Latino) populations. Translation in these different social service agencies and caregiver populations presents unique sets of challenges and barriers that will be discussed by the presenters. Each program will refer to components of the RE-AIM Translation Framework, and national policy implications will be emphasized. The last hour of the workshop will be devoted to a roundtable discussion of translational issues that will include all presenters and audience participation. Materials from the programs and papers discussing various translational issues will be gathered together in a Workshop Notebook and distributed to all attendees. Faculty: Louis D. Burgio, Ph.D. (School of Social Work, and Institute on Aging, The University of Michigan, ); Marcia Ory, Ph.D., (School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M University); Ken Hepburn, Ph.D. (School of Nursing, Emory University); Laura N. Gitlin, Ph.D. (Jefferson Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health, Thomas Jefferson University); Mary Mittelman, Dr.P.H. (Silberstein Institute, New York University School of Medicine); Robyn Stone, Dr.P.H. (Executive Director, Institute for Future Aging Services, AHSA). Using MEPS Data in Gerontological Health Services Research Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality This workshop is designed for gerontological health services researchers and health care professionals who have a background or interest in using national health surveys for the purposes of analyses pertaining to health care utilization, expenditures, access to care and disparities in health. Major changes have taken place in the Nation's health care delivery system over the last decade. The MEPS is a vital national data resource designed to continually provide health service researchers, policymakers, health care administrators, businesses, and others with timely, comprehensive information about health care use and costs in the United States. Newly released MEPS public use files provide analysts with opportunities to create unique analytic files for policy relevant analysis in the field of health services research, such as access to care and health disparities. In order to capture the unparalleled scope and detail of the MEPS HC, analysts need to understand the complexities of MEPS data files and data file linkages. This workshop will provide the knowledge necessary to formulate research plans utilizing the various MEPS HC files and linkage capabilities. The Workshop will be presented in lecture format using PowerPoint. Participants are provided with an orientation to MEPS data products which includes the structure and design of public use files, documentation, and codebooks. Structural differences between person-level, family-level, event-level, condition-level files are discussed. Diagrams, flow charts, and spreadsheets are used to describe MEPS file content and layouts. Participants are also given instructions regarding the appropriate use of weights required to produce unbiased national estimates. Participants receive over a 100-page (color) workbook containing workshop slides, notes and reference materials. Participants will have the opportunity to bring up specific research and policy questions of interest to them throughout the presentation. Faculty: Jeffrey Rhodes, PhD (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality); Anita Soni, PhD (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality); Marie Stagnitti, PhD (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality). Women's Health and Retirement Security: How Far We Have Come and Where We Need to Go Sponsored by the GSA Task Force on Women Description coming soon. Faculty: Pamela Herd (GSA Task Force on Women); Jacqueline Angel (University of Texas, Austin); Molly Carnes (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Dorothy Dunlop (Northwestern University); Marilyn Moon (American Institutes for Research); Janet Wells (The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long Term Care); Eliza Pavalko (University of Minnesota); Michael Tanner (CATO Institute); Tim Smeeding (Syracuse University); Karen Holden (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Melissa Hardy (Pennsylvania State University); Carroll Estes (University of California at San Francisco); Melissa Faverault (Urban Institute); Virginia Reno (NASI); Richard Johnson (Urban Institute).
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