Clinical Research Resources

The Behavioral Medicine Core Lab (BMCL), located at the National Jewish Health site, provides a variety of services to assist CTRC investigators with behavioral and psychological components of Adult and Pediatric protocols.

Services Include:

The BMCL strongly encourages consulting members of the lab about inclusion of behavioral medicine measures in your research. For consultation and additional information concerning any of our provided services, please contact the BMCL (information to the right).

Four objective systems are available for tracking treatment and assay adherence.

• MDILog - electronic inhaler sleeves containing a microprocessor that records and stores medication adherence.
• Doser - used to track adherence of inhaled medications (metered dose inhalers).
• MEMs Cap - used to track adherence with oral medication (pills).  It can also be used to track at-home sample collection such as salivary cortisol samples.
• *EncoreAnywhere and/or Restraxx - CPAP adherence solution for gathering and monitoring patients' adherence data over the web.

The adherence tracking devices, except for EncoreAnywhere and Restraxx, are provided to the investigator with technical support, including set-up, data downloading, data verification, and delivery of complete data sets.  EncoreAnywhere and Restraxx is strictly a data monitoring service.

• Five Minute Speech Sample (FMSS) – brief measure of expressed emotion (EE) derived from a speech sample.
• Family Asthma Management System Scale (FAMSS) - assesses eight aspects of asthma management from a family systems perspective.
   

Full on-sight or off-sight training is available for both assessments via teleconferencing. Training includes proper administration of the interviews, rating and coding the interviews, and how to interpret the coding system. The BMCL will also help code a sample of the interviews for your specific protocol to help maintain reliability with the measure.

The following questionnaires are provided on-line* or off-line for protocols needing Generic and/or Illness Specific Quality of Life assessments:

• Baseline Dyspnea Index and Transitional Dyspnea Index (BDI-TDI) (off-line)
• Clarke Survey of Hypoglycemia Awareness (on-line)
• Diabetes Distress Scale (on-line)
• Dyspnea-12 Questionnaire (off-line)
• Epworth Sleepiness Scale (on-line)
• Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) (off-line)
• GEMS Activity Questionnaire (off-line)
• Hypoglycemic Fear Survey (on-line)
• Impact of Weight on Quality of Life (IWQOL-Kids) (off-line)
• Obesity Quality of Life Questionnaire (off-line)
• Pediatric Asthma Caregiver’s QoL Questionnaire (PACQLQ) (off-line)
• Pediatric Quality of Life Questionnaire (PedsQL) (off-line)
• Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) (on-line)
• SF-36 Health Survey (version1) (off-line)
• SF-36 Health Survey (version 2) (on-line)
• World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-100) (off-line)
• Youth/Adolescent Questionnaire (YAQ) (off-line)

The following questionnaires are provided on-line or off-line for protocols needing Psychosocial/Mental Health Domain assessments:

• Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC-2) (off-line)
• Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) (off-line)
• Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D) (on-line)
• Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) (off-line)
• Prime MD-Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) (on-line)
• Prime MD-Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) (on-line)
• Semi-structured Interview for DSM-IV (SCID PQ-X, computer screening version) (off-line)
• State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (off-line)

*New instruments may be developed for on-line use at the investigator’s request.

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