The overarching goal of the proposed Advanced Center to Improve Pediatric Mental Health Care(ACIPMHC) is to improve care for children with mental health problems by achieving greater integration ofevidence-based practice in community care settings, particularly in the child welfare and mental healthservice sectors. The Research Methods Core (RMC) will contribute to this objective by developinginnovative strategies to address emerging methodological challenges that arise in studies examining theeffectiveness and implementation of innovative, evidence-based services. The work proposed in the RMCwill be conducted by a network of experienced quantitative and qualitative methodologists from the principalCASRC and CR2P sites in San Diego and Eugene, and from two affiliated premier methods and statisticsentities, the Center for Health Statistics (CHS) at the University of Illinois, Chicago (led by R. Gibbons) andthe Prevention Science and Methodology Group (PSMG) at the University of South Florida (led by H.Brown). Within the broader ACIPMHC framework, the RMC has two specific aims. (1) To developinnovative strategies to address emerging methodological issues in effectiveness and implementationresearch, including: (a) design and analysis issues, including multi-level power, alternative randomized andnon-randomized designs, and the impact of provider and provider organization turnover on analysis andinterpretation; (b) measurement development, including estimates of intervention and implementation fidelity,and feasible measures of client-level mediators and outcomes for use in usual care settings; (c) use andintegration of mixed methods in effectiveness and implementation research, and (d) economic analysis,including development of unit costing of child welfare services, and testing cost offset for parentmanagement training interventions. (2) To provide methodological support for ACIPMHC investigators andtheir community partners in effectiveness and implementation research. To accomplish these aims, specificworkgroups and projects have been established in each Aim 1 area. Support for ACIPMHC studies willoccur through direct involvement of RMC investigators in ongoing and proposed studies, as illustrated by thecross-over of investigators between projects in each ACIPMHC core, and through work selected to addressmajor methodological issues in research on the translation of evidence-based practices into the community.
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