Temperament in Context: Capturing Socio-emotional Trajectories IN the Social World

Presenter: Koraly Pérez-Edgar, PhD

Behavioral inhibition is a biologically based temperamental trait marked by sensitivity to novelty and discomfort in social situations.  Associated with a unique psychophysiological and neural profile, behavioral inhibition is also one of our strongest known markers of risk for anxiety.  Yet, the majority of children with behavioral inhibition do not go on to develop a clinical disorder.  For most children, maturational and environmental forces work in tandem to ameliorate this risk.  For those children who do show elevated anxiety, attention mechanisms may act as a developmental tether that sustains early temperamental risk over time.

A growing literature suggests that attentional biases to evocative stimuli may play a causal role in emerging anxiety.  Specifically, attention biases to threat are evident in both children and adults with anxiety and children temperamentally at risk for developing anxiety.  This presentation will examine methods for generating more robust and ecologically valid data, including mobile eye-tracking, to capture attention patterns in children at risk for anxiety. These data can then be coupled with known biological markers of risk, captured with EEG, fNIRS, and fMRI, to better understand developmental processes in context.

This event has limited seating on-site in Spangler 216; contact Erica Nouri (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to reserve your seat.

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This interactive online workshop will focus on semi-structured interviewing, a data collection method used in qualitative research. Participants will have the opportunity to practice developing interview questions and using interviewing skills.

Topics:

• Basics of semi-structured interviews
• Development of interview questions and probes
• Interviewing skills
• Considerations for conducting virtual interviews.

Presenters:
MaryBeth Grewe, MPH
Program Manager, Qualitative and Engaged Research
NC TraCS Institute

Simone Frank, MPH
Project Manager, Community Engagement in Research
NC TraCS Institute

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Strengthening Engagement in Research: Building and Maintaining Relationships with Patient & Community Partners

Meaningful partnerships with patients, community members, or other collaborators involved in your research are invaluable. Projects are set up for success when care is intentionally given to developing and strengthening partnerships over time.

This online training will describe best practices for building mutually beneficial partnerships. The session will also cover common challenges that researchers and patient, community, and other partners experience when working together, along with suggested solutions.

Participation in our Engagement in Research 101 or Engagement in Research Nuts and Bolts trainings are not required to attend this session; however, some knowledge of engagement, whether from prior training(s) or personal experience, may foster deeper understanding of the material in this session.

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Engaging Patient, Community, and Other Partners in Your Research is a multi-part online training series. You may register for the entire series OR any single training session.

Part 1 will focus on the basics of research engagement, providing an overview of patient and community engagement and its benefits, debunking common myths and misconceptions, and providing considerations and next steps for incorporating engagement approaches into your research.

Part 2 will cover specific engagement methods, including consultative community feedback sessions, advisory boards, and working with patient and community partners as members of a research team.

Part 3 will focus on the nuances of building and maintaining partnerships, outlining best practices for developing and strengthening mutually beneficial partnerships and discussing common partnership challenges and solutions.

This training series was developed collaboratively with patient, community, and researcher partners and is co-sponsored by the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and NC TraCS Institute.

Effect Of A Multicomponent Intervention to Improve Patient Access to Kidney Transplant and Living Kidney Donation: A Pragmatic, Cluster-Randomized Trial

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Amit Garg, MD, MA (Education) FRCPC, FACP, PhD
Associate Dean, Clinical Research, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Lead, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Kidney, Dialysis and Transplantation Provincial Program
Director, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) Western Facility
Nephrologist, London Health Sciences Centre
Professor, Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University

Stephanie N. Dixon, PhD MSc
Staff Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Kidney, Dialysis and Transplantation Research Program
Biostatistician, London Health Sciences Centre

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