Department of Medical Social Sciences

Representative Research Studies and Contracts  

Health Outcomes Measurement Science
ADAPPTS-C: Assessment, Development, and Application of Positive Psychology Theory and Science for Cancer
Development of Patient-Reported Outcome Tools for Kidney Recipients and Living Donors
Enhancing the Patient's Voice: Standards in the Design and Selection of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) for Use in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
MAPP: Multidisciplinary Assessment of Pelvic Pain

Neuro-QOL: Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders

NIH Toolbox: Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function

Peds PCF: Perceived Cognitive Function Item Bank for Children Who Undergo Cancer Treatment

PROMIS: Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System

PROMIS Pain Supplement

PROMIS Technical Center (PTC)
PROsetta Stone

Translating Basic Behavioral & Social Sciences Discoveries Into Interventions to Reduce Obesity

Biopsychosocial Mechanisms and Health Outcomes (BMHO) Lab
Technology-based Psychosocial Intervention for Symptom Management & Health Related Quality of Life in Men Living with Advanced Prostate Cancer (Prostate Cancer Health Intervention Program; PC-CHIP)
Improving Quality of Life among Hispanic/Latino Breast, Colorectal and Prostate Cancer Survivors: A Randomized Control Trial of Patient Navigation Using the LIVESTRONG Cancer Navigation Program (Navigate)
Ethnicity and Determinants of Quality of Life Following Prostate Cancer Treatment (Prostate Cancer Assessment & Treatment Health Study; PATHS) 
Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Sociocultural Ancillary Study (SCAS)

Human Neuroscience
Neural systems for the dynamic use of memory

LGBT Health and Development
Gene-environment interaction effects on HIV risk
Internet as a Setting for Sexual Health Development Among LBG Youth
Relationships as a Context for HIV Prevention in Vulnerable Youth

Syndemic Development and HIV risk Among Vulnerable Young Men

Developmental Mechanisms
Early Traumatic Stress Exposure: Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms of Clinical Risk (VEX Study) 
Developmental Characterization of Preschool Disruptive Behavior 
Developmental Influences on Adolescent Smoking Patterns (P01: Social and Emotional Contexts of Adolescent Smoking Patterns)
Multidimensional Model of Parental Social Cognitive Processes: Implications for Parenting
Prenatal Smoking and the Substrates of Disruptive Behavior in Early Life
Translational Approaches to Multilevel Models of Prenatal Exposure to Cigarettes
Child Health, Cognition and Behavior: Domain-Specific, Estimates of the Effects of Child Care Quality Using Several Large Scale Datasets

 Health Literacy and Disparities
 C3: Cancer Care Communication: Implementing a low-literacy, multimedia IT system to enhance patient-centered cancer care 
 iAdapt : A low literacy multimedia approach to disseminate bilingual diabetes CERSGs

 

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