# Assessment and Intervention Science and Technology Resource Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $293,084

## Abstract

To most powerfully organize unique resources for our Core Center for Clinical Research (CCCR), we propose
a Resource Core, Assessment & Intervention Science & Technology in Daily Life (ASSIST-Daily Life), which
will integrate 3 Sub-Cores: Person-Centered Outcomes Assessment and Technology (PCOAT); Accelerometer
Measurement of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep (AMPASS); and Behavioral Intervention
Technologies (BIT). Each Sub-Core brings specific expertise, technologies, and critical resources, including:
for PCOAT, identification of measures capitalizing on newer item-response theory based approaches,
psychometric evaluation of measures under consideration, assessment technology, training in assessment
implementation, analysis of outcome measures including measure performance; for AMPASS, selection of
accelerometers and training to assess physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep, protocols for valid
monitoring, algorithms to transform raw data into meaningful parameters, development of accelerometer-based
interventions, integration of accelerometer-based output into technology platforms; for BIT, intervention and
software design and development to deliver and evaluate behavioral interventions, including mobile, web,
tablet, and sensor-based technologies that aid behavior change to support health, mental health, and wellness.
Tailored to our Center's burgeoning body of work from epidemiologic studies that identified targets, this Core
will help us to move forward to the development of prevention strategies and interventions against these
targets, our CCCR theme. ASSIST-Daily Life will provide innovative support particularly because the Sub-
Cores will operate as an integrated unit. ASSIST-Daily Life Resource Core aims are, for research efforts
relevant to persons with or at risk for rheumatic diseases and musculoskeletal conditions: 1) design tailored,
state-of-the-science, multi-modal assessment and health interventions, incorporating real-world: self-report of
social, physical, and mental health, symptoms, and life satisfaction; performance-based assessment of motor,
sensory, and cognitive function; accelerometer monitoring to assess physical activity, sedentary behavior, and
sleep; mobile, web, tablet, and sensor-based applications that identify real-world behavioral markers using
GPS, activity logs, and wearable biosensors, to predict physiological and psychological states; 2) implement
technology platforms (off-the-shelf and customized) that can deploy health interventions and administer multi-
modal assessment, integrating into the platform, as relevant to the project, self-report and performance-based
assessment and accelerometer assessment in daily life. ASSIST-Daily Life will: enable CCCR investigators to
conduct their funded projects more efficiently and effectively; support development of proposals for novel new
projects; improve quality, rigor, and cost-effectiveness vs. studies without such a Core; provide criti...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9983607
- **Project number:** 5P30AR072579-04
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** NAN E ROTHROCK
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $293,084
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-19 → 2022-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9983607

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9983607, Assessment and Intervention Science and Technology Resource Core (5P30AR072579-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9983607. Licensed CC0.

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