# Shared Resource: Behavioral and Field Research

> **NIH NIH P30** · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $78,968

## Abstract

ABSTRACT 
The Behavioral and Field Research Core (BFRC) is designed to facilitate the integration of communication 
and behavioral research across the Institute including work in epidemiology, cancer prevention, clinical and 
developmental therapeutics, palliative care, and genetics. The BFRC is grouped in the Population Research 
Core Cluster along with the Epidemiology Research Core. 
The Core offers expertise in communication science and behavioral research methodologies; design and 
evaluation of evidence-based social and behavioral interventions (including social marketing as a systematic 
approach to population level behavior change); social network methodology and analysis; quality of life 
measurement utilizing the most appropriate instruments; ecological momentary assessment (EMA techniques 
provide methods by which a research participant can report on symptoms, affect, behavior, and cognitions 
proximal to the experience, and these reports are obtained many times throughout the study); electronic daily 
diaries (QOL continues to be a critical factor in developmental therapeutic trials); and community engagement 
research, particularly related to health disparities. The Core maintains an active network of community 
organization partnerships across the Institute's catchment area. Community partners participate in research 
advisory committees and community advisory committees, providing community perspective, input and 
facilitating access to the populations they serve. Through these partnerships, the Core facilitates community 
access for Institute researchers, thus serving to assist in the translation and dissemination of cancer research. 
Resources available through BFRC include real-time video recording and coding of clinical interactions 
(including equipment, software and expertise), access to an extensive video archive for communication and 
behavioral studies, geographical and population tracking/mapping capabilities, community research participant 
registries, access to comprehensive national datasets (e.g. HINTS), as well as an extensive bank of clinical 
and social/behavioral instruments and measures. 
The services provided by the BFRC have contributed to 32 peer-reviewed publications during the current 
review period. As an example, the BFRC provided all regulatory tasks, recruitment, data collection, video 
capture, post-production editing, and coding for Dr. Penner's (PSDR) work demonstrating the importance of 
recognizing and understanding how the distinct dynamics of racially concordant and discordant interactions 
affect medical encounters and outcomes, (Hagiwara N, Soc SciMed, 2013).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9836633
- **Project number:** 5P30CA022453-38
- **Recipient organization:** WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Felicity HARPER
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $78,968
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9836633

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9836633, Shared Resource: Behavioral and Field Research (5P30CA022453-38). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9836633. Licensed CC0.

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