Mission
The Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) Measurement and Methods Core provides scientific information on indicators of self-reported health and other measures of health. The Core focuses on measuring the determinants of health and health care disparities in older adults.
Measurement and Methods Resources at Each Site
CADC (Univ. of California, San Francisco) Measurement Core Website
Recommends and provides information on measures (many in English and Spanish) of several determinants of health and health disparities including socioeconomic status, interpersonal processes of care, perceived discrimination, and culture in the medical encounter. Provides annotated bibliographies on methodological topics including recruitment and measurement issues in diverse populations, developing and/or translating surveys, and locating appropriate measures for use in health disparities research.
CALME (Columbia University Medical Center) Measurement Core Website
Measurement and methods references (intermediate and advanced readings). References categories include Measurement (statistical, substantive), Methods for Analysis of Data (general, epidemiological, sociological, and biostatistical).
CHAMP (Medical Univ. of South Carolina) Measurement Core Website
Contains General Quality of Life Tools, Depression Assessment Tools, Diabetes-Related Assessment Tools, Neck Pain or Dysfunction Tools, Patient-Physician Trust Measurement Tools, Stroke-Related Measurement Tools.
CHIME (Univ. California, Los Angeles) Measurement Core Website
Contains presentations on methods, several instruments in English and Spanish (including the SF-36, Patient's Views on Health Care, and Kidney Disease Quality of Life), materials on qualitative methods, and extensive links to methods resources in English and Spanish.
MCUAAAR (Univ. of Michigan/Wayne State) Measurement Core Website
Contains a reference list of Conceptulizations of Race and Ethnicity: General References and Conceptulizations of Race and Ethnicity: Health Research References.
NERC (Univ. of Colorado Health Sciences) Measurement Core Website
American Indian and Alaska Native Methods and Measurement Resources.
Contains Quality of Life and Health-related Quality of Life Measures, Mental Health Measures for depression english and non-english, reviews and summaries of measures, racial and ethnic identity, religiosity, edipemiological, measure development issues, methods of scale construction and other references.
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