The San Diego Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (AD-RCMAR)
A partnership between UC San Diego and San Diego State University
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NIH Office of Disease Prevention-Sponsored Supplemental Journal Issue
The National Institutes of Health Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) sponsored a new open-access supplemental journal issue, “Design and Analytic Methods to Evaluate Multilevel Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities,” published by Prevention Science. The issue provides a peer-reviewed collection of papers on rigorous clinical trial methods that can be used to evaluate community-based interventions in populations that experience health disparities.
The 12 papers featured in the issue offer a mix of new approaches to the design and analysis of multilevel interventions and examples of strong applications of existing design and analytic methods. The issue also includes strategies for developing multilevel interventions that balance methodological rigor with design feasibility, acceptability, and ethical considerations.
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You can also refer to the quick guide below that ODP developed to help you navigate the issue and identify the papers that are most relevant to your work.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Sample Size Calculations for Stepped Wedge Designs with Treatment Effects that May Change with the Duration of Time under Intervention (Hughes et al.)
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Sample Size Requirements to Test Subgroup-Specific Treatment Effects in Cluster-Randomized Trials (Wang et al.)
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Multilevel Intervention Stepped Wedge Designs (MLI-SWDs) (Sperger et al.)
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Optimizing Interventions for Equitability: Some Initial Ideas (Strayhorn et al.)
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Operationalizing Primary Outcomes to Achieve Reach, Effectiveness, and Equity in Multilevel Interventions (Guastaferro et al.)
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Evaluating Effects of Multilevel Interventions on Disparity in Health and Healthcare Decisions (Jackson et al.)
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Considerations for Subgroup Analyses in Cluster-Randomized Trials Based on Aggregated Individual-Level Predictors (Williamson et al.)
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Application of a Heuristic Framework for Multilevel Interventions to Eliminate the Impact of Unjust Social Processes and Other Harmful Social Determinants of Health (Guilamo-Ramos et al.)
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Mixed-Method, Multilevel Clustered-Randomized Control Trial for Menstrual Health Disparities (Houghton and Adkins-Jackson)
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You can check out this Special Journal Issue on Research Methods to Reduce Health Disparities Sponsored by NIH Office of Disease Prevention by clicking here! ​​​​​​
UCSD Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Centers Professional Development Series
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Lectures, presentations, community videos, and prominent faculty speakers from institutions across the country and abroad present on a wide array of topics related to neurodegenerative disease, primarily Alzheimer’s disease.
Webinars by UC San Diego School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Care & AD-RCMAR​​​​​​
​Jason Flatt, PhD, MPH (UC San Diego) speaks on “Sexual and Gender Minority Populations and Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias” at UCSD School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology & Palliative Care on May 3, 2023.
​Reanne Moore, PhD (UC San Diego) speaks on “What Can Digital Health Technologies Teach Us About Our Aging Brains?” at UCSD School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology & Palliative Care on May 3, 2023.
Dr. Duke Han (University of Southern California) speaks on “Financial Decision Making in Older Age and Relevance to Alzheimer’s Disease” at UCSD School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology & Palliative Care on January 3, 2023.