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Mon. 1 Feb, 2021

Odum Institute: Designing Multi-Item Scales and Questionnaire Development

Mon. 1 Feb, 2021 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

This online two-day (2/1 and 2/3) short course provides an introduction to developing multi-item scale measures and survey instruments. Examples include measures of various social and psychological variables that might be assessed in health, medicine, journalism, or other related research areas. After a brief theoretical introduction to topics such as defining a construct and types of validity, this talk will focus on applied issues such as what is the optimal scale development process and how (and when) can you deviate from that process.

Marcella Boynton, PhD will address practical issues around questionnaire design such as how to construct a “good” survey instrument that has a natural flow, minimizes participant burden, has appropriate response options and other common concerns in scale development and design. Boynton will focus on real-life examples to demonstrate the scale development process. She will also briefly discuss different quantitative scale validation methods.

Presenter
Marcella Boynton, PhD, Biostatistician
NC TraCS Institute

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Clinical Protocol Development Workshop - Day 1

Mon. 1 Feb, 2021 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

TraCS Regulatory invites academic researchers, scientists, study coordinators, and students engaged in clinical research/clinical trials to the Clinical Protocol Development Workshop. This two-day workshop will provide attendees with knowledge, tools, and resources to aid in the development of a scientific protocol for a clinical research study. There will be time for questions at the end of each presentation.

Day 1 Topics:

  • Who needs a clinical protocol and why it is important
  • Types of clinical protocols, and content expectations for sections of the protocol
  • Introduction to clincaltrials.gov
  • UNC Scientific Review processes
  • Protocol problems spots and ways to improve protocols
  • Resources and tools available at UNC to support clinical protocol development

ACRP Contact Hours: 4.0 Contact Hours of clinical research education on application for maintenance of ACRP's ccrc®, ccra® or cpi®, certification designations will be available for attendees

Presenter
Amanda Wood, CCRP, RAC, IND/IDE Program Coordinator
NC TraCS Institute

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Tue. 2 Feb, 2021

N3C: Orientation to the N3C Data Enclave - Part A

Tue. 2 Feb, 2021 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

This orientation provides a general overview of the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), including goals, organization, and community resources.

Topics include:

  • Introducing the 3 data tiers available and important considerations for research driven by the data harmonization process
  • Discussing resources for training and help, as well as the Data Use Request (DUR) process required for researcher access

Note: This orientation continues with Part B on February 9.

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Clinical Protocol Development Workshop - Day 2

Tue. 2 Feb, 2021 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

TraCS Regulatory invites academic researchers, scientists, study coordinators, and students engaged in clinical research/clinical trials to the Clinical Protocol Development Workshop. This two-day workshop will provide attendees with knowledge, tools, and resources to aid in the development of a scientific protocol for a clinical research study. There will be time for questions at the end of each presentation.

Day 2 Topics:

  • Clinical Protocol Study Design - aims, objectives, endpoints, and outcomes
  • Statistical Analysis, sample size considerations, data management
  • Clinicaltrials.gov - outcome measure reporting
  • Protocol problem spots and ways to improve protocols

ACRP Contact Hours: 4.0 Contact Hours of clinical research education on application for maintenance of ACRP's ccrc®, ccra® or cpi®, certification designations will be available for attendees

Presenter
Amanda Wood, CCRP, RAC, IND/IDE Program Coordinator
NC TraCS Institute

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Wed. 3 Feb, 2021

Odum Institute: Designing Multi-Item Scales and Questionnaire Development

Wed. 3 Feb, 2021 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

This online two-day (2/1 and 2/3) short course provides an introduction to developing multi-item scale measures and survey instruments. Examples include measures of various social and psychological variables that might be assessed in health, medicine, journalism, or other related research areas. After a brief theoretical introduction to topics such as defining a construct and types of validity, this talk will focus on applied issues such as what is the optimal scale development process and how (and when) can you deviate from that process.

Marcella Boynton, PhD will address practical issues around questionnaire design such as how to construct a “good” survey instrument that has a natural flow, minimizes participant burden, has appropriate response options and other common concerns in scale development and design. Boynton will focus on real-life examples to demonstrate the scale development process. She will also briefly discuss different quantitative scale validation methods.

Presenter
Marcella Boynton, PhD, Biostatistician
NC TraCS Institute

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REDCap Basic Form Building Training Session

Wed. 3 Feb, 2021 9:00 am - 10:30 am
REDCap logo

The REDCap Forms Training Session will teach users to build forms using the online designer or data dictionary (lecture/demo).

Our current REDCap trainings are offered as webinar-only.

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About REDCap

REDCap is a secure web application that can be used to build and manage case report forms, surveys and other data capture mechanisms for clinical research. NC TraCS provides training classes to assist you in getting started with building REDCap data collection forms for your research projects.

Current REDCap training offerings include:

  1. Forms (beginner)
  2. Forms: Hands On (beginner)
  3. Functions (advanced)
  4. Open Session (Surveys and general questions)
  5. Clinical Data Management (3-day)

For more information, please visit our REDCap webpage.

CTSA Visiting Scholar Program: Judging Beyond the Cover

Wed. 3 Feb, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Judging beyond the cover: Assesing the readability, understandability, and actionability in breast cancer survivorship print materials

Join us as Pearman Parker, MPH, RN presents the results from her K project where she investigated the perceptions of cancer educational materials among young women breast cancer survivors.

She will also discuss the results from an environmental scan of cancer educational materials for content and readability and present her next steps toward grant development and future collaborations.

Presenter
Pearman Parker PhD, MPH, RN, Clinical Instructor
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing

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Thu. 4 Feb, 2021

Qualitative Research 101

Thu. 4 Feb, 2021 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

This online training session will provide an introduction to qualitative research methods. Topics covered will include differences between quantitative and qualitative research, qualitative research methodologies, strategies for qualitative data collection, and methods of qualitative data analysis.

Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share experiences conducting qualitative research.

Presenters
MaryBeth Grewe, MPH, Qualitative Research Specialist
NC TraCS Institute

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Fri. 5 Feb, 2021

TraCS Professional Development: Leading a Research Team

Fri. 5 Feb, 2021 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

This Professional Development seminar is great for research professionals, graduate students, postdocs and early stage faculty researchers. It covers foundational skills useful for career development in clinical/translational research.

The second module of this seminar is titled Communication Skills and will equip attendees with knowledge of how to best communicate within their research teams and with the public. Each session of the seminar will meet Fridays at 12:00 pm. This session is titled: Leading a research team: meetings and project planning.

Presenter
Susan Pusek, DrSc, Director, Education Programs
NC TraCS Institute

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Sat. 6 Feb, 2021

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Sun. 7 Feb, 2021

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