The Center on Native Elder Health Disparities (CNEHD)

This Core is designed to:

improve the overall design of the RPs and R01 research grant applications subsequently developed;
assist in selection of appropriate measures for operationalizing the key constructs relevant to these studies and research grant applications;
demonstrate strategies by which to accommodate cultural variation likely to affect the reliability and validity of said measures;
review all draft instrumentation for formatting and coding efficiency;
introduce state-of-the-art data collection procedures (e.g., structured protocols, computer-assisted methods) that minimize information, method, and interviewer sources of variation;
anticipate sensory limitations (e.g., visual and hearing impairments) among older adults that may require specialized data collection procedures;
ensure adequate consideration of options regarding sampling plans and their relative merits;
highlight personnel and policy issues that frequently arise in the course of fielding studies in AI/AN communities;
acquaint participants with analytic techniques that address the psychometric performance of study measures and that are appropriate to the questions to be asked of the data;
analyze data generated by the RPs as well as pursue related secondary analysis of existing data, the results of which may inform primary data collection; and
encourage attention to qualitative as well as quantitative research methods, their integration, and relative merit in explicating the phenomena studied.

For more information about the Center on Native Elder Health Disparities E-Mail: Timothy.Noe@ucdenver.edu