Journal article
Integrating Statistical and Clinical Research Elements in Intervention-Related Grant Applications: Summary From an NIMH Workshop
Academic psychiatry, Vol.33(3), pp.221-228
05/01/2009
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.33.3.221
PMID: 19574520
Abstract
Objective: The authors summarize points for consideration generated in a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) workshop convened to provide an opportunity for reviewers from different disciplines-specifically clinical researchers and statisticians-to discuss how their differing and complementary expertise can be well integrated in the review of intervention-related grant applications.
Methods: A 1-day workshop was convened in October, 2004. The workshop featured panel presentations on key topics followed by interactive discussion. This article summarizes the workshop and subsequent discussions, which centered on topics including weighting the statistics/data analysis elements of an application in the assessment of the application's overall merit; the level of statistical sophistication appropriate to different stages of research and for different funding mechanisms; some key considerations in the design and analysis portions of applications; appropriate statistical methods for addressing essential questions posed by an application; and the role of the statistician in the application's development, study conduct, and interpretation and dissemination of results.
Results: A number of key elements crucial to the construction and review of grant applications were identified. It was acknowledged that intervention-related studies unavoidably involve trade-offs. Reviewers are helped when applications acknowledge such trade-offs and provide good rationale for their choices. Clear linkage among the design, aims, hypotheses, and data analysis plan and avoidance of disconnections among these elements also strengthens applications.
Conclusion: The authors identify multiple points to consider when constructing intervention-related grant applications. The points are presented here as questions and do not reflect institute policy or comprise a list of best practices, but rather represent points for consideration.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Integrating Statistical and Clinical Research Elements in Intervention-Related Grant Applications: Summary From an NIMH Workshop
- Creators
- Joel T. Sherrill - NIMH, DSIR, Bethesda, MD 20892 USADavid I. Sommers - NIMH, Div Extramural Activ, Bethesda, MD 20892 USAAndrew A. NierenbergAndrew C. Leon - Cornell UniversityStephan Arndt - University of Iowa Hospitals and ClinicsKaren Bandeen-Roche - Johns Hopkins UniversityJoel Greenhouse - Carnegie Mellon UniversityDonald Guthrie - Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USASharon-Lise Normand - Harvard UniversityKatharine A. Phillips - John Brown UniversityM. Katherine Shear - Columbia UniversityRobert Woolson - Medical University of South Carolina
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Academic psychiatry, Vol.33(3), pp.221-228
- DOI
- 10.1176/appi.ap.33.3.221
- PMID
- 19574520
- ISSN
- 1042-9670
- eISSN
- 1545-7230
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 8
- Grant note
- K24MH063975 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2009
- Academic Unit
- Statistics and Actuarial Science; Psychiatry; Epidemiology; Biostatistics; Nursing; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9985132073502771
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