Present: Yang Bai, Levi Bonnell, Jessica Clifton, Lillian Savard, Juvena
Hitt, Ben Littenberg, Tim Plante, Connie van Eeghen
Start Up: Introductions all around; hooray for change and new faces!
1.
Proposal for
New Faculty Start Up – Yung Bai, PhD
a.
Identify documents (name, page numbers)
b.
Goals: Consumer monitors (like FitBits) – can they be used to change consumer
behaviors, specifically inactive participants who are pre-HTN
i.
Collaborator: nursing faculty (Jennifer)
c.
Intervention: goal setting,
FitBit, with or without coaching
i.
Method: 2 arms, both with FitBit,
one with coaching
1.
What are the consequences of
having no control group (no FitBit)
ii.
Measures: activity and clinical
measures (BP)
1.
What are the alternative measures that don’t create a Hawthorne Effect
(Simple 7)
iii.
Sample size: an estimate is needed to support the answer derived from
the question
iv.
Consider expanding population to HTN
d.
FINER evaluation
i.
Feasible: affordability
ii.
Interest: motivation of PI
iii.
Novel: to what degree have exercise monitors been studied?
1.
Real time data for health coach
2.
Wide variations in literature
a.
They work short term?
b.
They don’t work in the long term?
iv.
Ethical: no concerns
v.
Relevant: what is the mission/what are the goals
1.
Health status of the greater community
a.
As an intervention for the patient
b.
As an input for the PCP to develop the “coach” as part of practice
2.
Career development – this is key for Yung
a.
Stepping off point for other diseases
b.
This leads to the question: what is not known in this field
i.
What is Yung’s ability to make a contribution here?
ii.
What is the hook?
1.
Cost? Not really – FitBits are
cheap, and are quickly outdated
c.
Consider searching ClinicalTrials.gov and SmallStepsLab as a novel data
source tool, or consider GoogleFit or Apple’s health kit
d.
Consider focusing on the coach: how does the clinician intervene using
real time collected data (probably not daily but easily produced by many
different devices)
i.
Can you manualize coaching?
ii.
Can you automate coaching? Human
coaching is hard to standardize and hard to measure. And, it doesn’t get reimbursed.
e.
What’s the research question: does the package work? Does an element in the package make a
difference?
i.
If it’s the package, then consider the value of the control arm.
ii.
Consider coaching without FitBit – Yang already knows that generic
coaching does not work, except for participants at the least active end of the
scale (which may have been due with the regression to the mean, which can be
bigger than the treatment effect)
iii.
Stay with RCT
iv.
FOCUS – what is the reporting goal:
1.
What works best in the world of FitBits and coaching?
a.
What would make it work better?
2.
How to benefit other populations?
f.
This research interest must provide an outcome that moves the research
alone
i.
The interest is focused on the technology (less about the health coach)
ii.
What is the next step in the research map
2.
Next Workshop Meeting(s): Thursdays, 11:30
p.m. – 12:45 p.m., at Given Courtyard South Level 4 to end of August 2017.
a.
July 13:
Connie – SBIRT manuscript
b.
July 20: Jessica
– publication plan for dissertation (no Ben)
c.
July 27: (no
Ben)
d.
August 3: (no
Ben, Connie, Jessica, Lillian)
e.
Future
topics:
a.
Juvena:
protocol development
b.
LaMantia:
predictors of successful R01 applications: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155060
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