Outcomes Measurement and Survey Core

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Mission

The mission of this core facility is to provide consultation and support for research that involves collecting, analyzing or interpreting self-report data in culturally diverse populations. The facility provides expertise on the best ways to measure outcomes derived by self-report, serves as a central resource for state-of-the-science instruments and measurement methods and provides in-house support services for translation, collection and analysis of outcomes and survey data.

Key Services

The OMSC provides expertise on the best ways to measure outcomes derived by self-report, serves as a central resource for state-of-the-science instruments and measurement methods, and provides in-house research support services for translation, collection and analysis of outcomes and survey data.

• Assistance with development of new protocols
• Questionnaire/Survey selection and development
• Recruitment strategies and assessment plans
• Analysis methods

• Computer-based questionnaire administration tools
• Scoring algorithms
• Psychometric and statistical analysis and interpretation

• Training for study interviewers
• Multilingual study interviewers
• Multilingual translations of questionnaires and surveys
• Qualitative methods (focus groups, cognitive interviewing)