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Recently Completed Projects
The study has four primary objectives. Objective #1: To conduct a 5-year project of research designed to advance knowledge about effective reporting of health plan and physician performance for consumers, purchasers, children with special health care needs, and other audiences. Objective #2: To evaluate the usefulness of CAHPS surveys and reports for quality improvement. Objective #3: To derive new survey items for the institutional setting, group practice, individual physicians, PPOs, and persons with mobility impairments. Objective #4: To assess the cultural comparability of CAHPS data by race/ethnicity and language.
Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, June 2003 to May 2007 Phase III: Further Development and Refinement of the Patient Activation Measure
Principal Investigator: Judith Hibbard Refine the Patient Activation Measure to reduce the number of items and increase the comprehensibility. Further, the project will assess the feasibility of using the measure in a clinical setting. The findings from the first two RWJF funded projects show that it is possible to measure patient activation and that it is strongly related to desired outcomes such as preventive behaviors, consumeristic behaviors (e.g. looking into physician qualifications, reading about side-effects with a new prescription), and disease-specific self-management behaviors. Further, the results show that those patients whose doctors support and encourage the patient's self-care role have higher activation scores. It is important to note, however, that the evidence to date is based on cross-sectional data, so causation or direction of causation cannot be assumed. The three goals of the project are to: reduce the number of items in the measure; lower the reading level required for the items; and develop a hand-held touch screen computer version of PAM and pilot it in a clinical setting. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, June 2004 to May 2005. Principal Investigator: Michael Hibbard
The monitoring and evaluation of the activities of Oregon's watershed councils have emphasized environmental outcomes. In addition, it is important to also examine the community socio-economic outcomes of their activities: What happens that otherwise might not happen in Oregon's communities as a result of the activities of watershed councils? This study examines watershed councils *Economically: Beyond the grantmaking activity of the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, how much additional financial support do watershed councils draw into communities? What are the sources of that support? What is the multiplier effect of the watershed councils' spending on the local economies of Oregon? * Socially: Do watershed councils enrich communities in other ways? Do they serve as catalysts to enhance communities' and people's engagement in issues beyond watershed functioning? Funder: Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Principal Investigator: Marc Schlossberg
The intent of this project is to connect students with different neighborhood representatives and citizens and to jointly pursue community-based mapping endeavors that will both empower local citizens in their neighborhood efforts and give students a hands-on educational activity that combines new tools with a real world opportunity to apply the tools. Neighborhood residents join with students in walking the streets of their neighborhoods, cataloguing different aspects of the community in a spatially explicit way using mobile units that combine GIS and GPS technologies. Residents and students are trained on the use of the mobile devices and jointly decide the types of spatial data to collect. The main overall goals of the project are to use community-based mapping to: 1) improve the quality of life in the neighborhood; and 2) provide a real world setting for students to learn and apply new GIS mapping skills. The project is occurring in conjunction with "PPPM436/536: Applied GIS and Social Planning", an intermediate GIS course for both undergraduate and graduate students (see: http://www.uoregon.edu/~schlossb/PPPM/pppm536.htm). The project itself is also being documented on-line in an effort to provide transparency and context to this service learning, action-research partnership between the University of Oregon and the West University Neighborhood (see: http://www.uoregon.edu/~wunmap). Funder: Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC), July 2004 - April 2005.
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