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IMPACT member Ana Quiñones to participate in NIH Collaboratory annual meeting steering committee panel

Posted on by Jeannine Sato

IMPACT Health Equity Team Leader, Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS, will participate in a moderated Steering Committee panel discussion focusing on health equity entitled “Focus on Health Equity: The ePCT Landscape/Ecosystem,” as part of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory annual meeting.

Quinones will contribute to the Steering Committee panel goals of identifying national programs and initiatives that are striving to improve health equity. The panel is expected to discuss best practices for engaging minoritized and other underrepresented communities to improve health equity and examine the impact of these initiatives and how lessons are disseminated across different stakeholder groups. The closed meeting will be held May 16, 2023.

Vince Mor presenting at National Academy’s “Addressing the Rising Mental Health Needs of an Aging Population: A Workshop”

Posted on by Jeannine Sato

IMPACT multiple principal investigator, Vince Mor, PhD, will present at a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine public workshop exploring the current state of mental health care for older adults in the United States and potential strategies to address the mental health needs and challenges of an aging population.

Mor, who is a National Academy workshop planning committee member, will moderate a session called “Promoting Resilience and Positive Mental Health in Older Adults.” The two-day workshop will be held May 15-16, 2023, in Washington DC and virtually, online via Event Bright.

Learn more and register for the workshop.

McKnight’s news profiles Mor as Pinnacle Award honoree

Posted on by Jeannine Sato

IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vince Mor, PhD is profiled as an honoree by McKnight’s Long-Term Care News and McKnight’s Home Care, part of McKnight’s Senior Living. Mor was honored with an “Industry Ally” award at McKnight’s 2023 Pinnacle Awards in March for his decades of research to improve long-term care. McKnight’s will profile other Pinnacle Award honorees daily through May.

Read Mor’s honoree profile.

Goldfeld develops a simple way to simulate setting sample size for variable cluster sizes in randomized trials

Posted on by Sonya Sutton

Keith Goldfeld, DrPH, MS, MPA, member of the executive committee of the IMPACT Design & Statistics Core, recently published a blog post inspired by discussions with collborators from the IMPACT Collaboratory.

Goldfeld discussed how the question of variable cluster sizes has come up a number of times in recent discussion with IMPACT Collaborators about setting the sample sizes for proposed cluster randomized trials, Goldfeld explains that when working with  a fixed overall sample size, it is generally better (in terms of statistical power) if the sample is equally distributed across the different clusters. Highly variable cluster sizes increase the standard errors of effect size estimates and reduce the ability to determine if an intervention or treatment is effective.

Goldfeld realized that there is no easy way to generate the desired variable cluster sizes while holding the total sample size constant using simstudy, his preferred simulation package. In response to this, he developed a simple solution that is available for download on the blog.

Read the full post here.

Clapp to present at Society for Clinical Trials 44th Annual Meeting

Posted on by Sonya Sutton

The Society for Clinical Trials (SCT) will hold its 44th Annual Meeting May 21-24 in Baltimore, MD. The theme is “Championing High-quality Evidence to Optimize Human Health.” Justin Clapp, PhD, MPH, member of the executive committee of the Ethics & Regulation Core, will be presenting, “Physician Gatekeeping in Pragmatic Trials: A Qualitative Study of Clinical Reasoning about Patient Randomization” during the conference.

Learn more at this link.

NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Chapter: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF DATA SHARING IN PRAGMATIC CLINICAL TRIALS

Posted on by Sonya Sutton

Published on the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory website April 3 2023, this new chapter of the living textbook presents the human subjects research regulations that may impact data sharing and examines the intersection of enabling critical ePCT research, and respecting the interest of patients who become ePCT participants.

The scientific motivations for data sharing are clear: health information can enable scientific discovery, as well as enhance transparency and reproducibility in trial results. However, the ethical considerations of sharing data from embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) are less well defined, especially when data are collected with a waiver or alteration of informed consent, as is often the case in ePCTs. Therefore, in this chapter, we describe the human subjects research regulations that may impact such data sharing and examine the intersection of enabling critical ePCT research, and respecting the interests of patients who become ePCT participants.

Access the chapter: https://rethinkingclinicaltrials.org/chapters/ethics-and-regulatory/ethical-considerations-of-data-sharing-in-pragmatic-clinical-trials/introduction-to-ethical-considerations-of-data/ 

 

The Center for Aging and Serious Illness accepting applications for second cohort of participants in Dementia Palliative Care Clinical Trials Training Program

Posted on by Sonya Sutton

The Center for Aging and Serious Illness Dementia Palliative Care Clinical Trials Training Program provides a foundation in practical aspects involving the design and conduct of randomized clinical trials in dementia palliative care. The Program is appropriate for early career researchers or other mid-career researchers interested in developing competence in the planning, design, and execution of randomized clinical trials among persons with Alzheimer’s Disease or Related Dementias (ADRD) and their caregivers. The 10-month-long Program includes a combination of virtual small group sessions and a 5-day in-person Institute where learners will work together to design a trial and learners will develop their own grant application addressing ADRD. The research training team includes a diverse group of faculty members who are dedicated to developing investigators in dementia palliative care clinical trials research.

The Institute is scheduled for October 2 – 6, 2023 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It is critical that the candidate be able to attend the Institute in its entirety. To be eligible, participants must be US citizens, have a doctoral-level degree, and be at least two years from their terminal degree with a demonstrated commitment to geriatric palliative care or dementia research. International applicants are not eligible for this opportunity.

Applications are due May 15, 2023. Complete this form to apply for the program.

Mor to speak at workshop on addressing the rising mental health needs of an aging population

Posted on by Jeannine Sato

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host an Ad Hoc workshop planning for the addressing the rising mental health needs of an aging population in Washington, DC on May 15 and 16. IMPACT multiple principal investigator Vincent Mor, PhD, is an invited presenter at the workshop, which will cover the areas of: mental health and substance use conditions among older adults; strategies to improve the quality and capacity of mental health services for older adults; and ways to build and sustain comprehensive programs to support the well-being of older adults with mental health conditions, among other topics.

Register for the workshop.

 

National collaboratory seeks candidates for mentorship program to improve care for older adults at risk of elder mistreatment

Posted on by Jeannine Sato

The National Collaboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment Mentorship Program (NCAEM) is seeking a new cohort for its one-year mentorship program to support clinicians, service providers, researchers, policymakers, and advocates who are focused on improving care for older adults experiencing or at risk of experiencing elder mistreatment. Each year a newly selected cohort participates in the program. Ideal candidates may be from many disciplines, such as social workers, health care workers, community organizers, or researchers willing to be paired with an expert mentor, design and complete a selected project and attend an annual conference at the programs conclusion. Applicants representing or working with underserved populations are encouraged to apply. The first cohort will be selected by early June, 2023.

The deadline to apply is May, 5, 2023. Visit the Collaboratory mentorship program website for more information.