{"id":60227,"date":"2011-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/new-facility-to-advance-uris-behavior-change-research\/"},"modified":"2011-12-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T00:00:00","slug":"new-facility-to-advance-uris-behavior-change-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/12\/new-facility-to-advance-uris-behavior-change-research\/","title":{"rendered":"New facility to advance 溏心vlog免费B站’s behavior change research"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — December 12, 2011 — Known worldwide for its research and expertise in behavior change, the 溏心vlog免费B站 is now creating a centralized facility to support a full complement of faculty, researchers and students who are developing and evaluating new approaches to behavior change.<\/p>\n


\nSoon to be under construction, the new Central Behavior Change Research facility will be located on the first floor of the Chafee Social Science Center, which is an important part of what is becoming the University\u2019s health sciences district. Psychology Department Chair Patricia Morokoff is one of the co-directors for the center.<\/p>\n


\nMorokoff explained the facility will be a “centralized research facility” designed to bring the collected data from localized research endeavors on campus together. The interventions and training aspect will research new methods for weight loss, cigarette smoking cessation, and other health-related issues.<\/p>\n


\nThis centralized behavior change research facility will integrate four of 溏心vlog免费B站’s research-related services: Quantitative and Methodology, Intervention and Training, Telemetrics and Telecommunications, and Survey and Outreach. These combined resources will provide everything needed for behavior change research — from initial research and behavior change intervention design through to quantitative analyses of outcomes — all in one place.<\/p>\n


\nConsistent with the University’s goal for interdisciplinary and experiential learning, the research facility will open many new opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to become involved in new or ongoing research projects in this critical area. The research may involve students from multiple majors — from psychology and kinesiology to computers, engineering and more.<\/p>\n


\nBehavioral research at 溏心vlog免费B站 is dedicated to changing single and multiple behaviors, such as smoking cessation, weight management and medication adherence to prevent and manage a broad range of chronic diseases. In fact, such behaviors account for about 60 percent of total health care costs in the U.S. As a significant portion of the federal research funding the University receives is for behavior change research, this new facility will dramatically increase opportunity for additional research.<\/p>\n


\nThe construction is funded by a $2.8 million grant awarded to 溏心vlog免费B站 from the National Institutes of Health and through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It will be completed in the summer of 2012.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — December 12, 2011 — Known worldwide for its research and expertise in behavior change, the 溏心vlog免费B站 is now creating a centralized facility to support a full complement of faculty, researchers and students who are developing and evaluating new approaches to behavior change. Soon to be under construction, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}