The PROMISE Study: Patient-Centered Online Training in Methods and Design to advance Home Visiting Research
The PROMISE study, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) in 2019 and completed in 2021, aimed to develop a Patient-Centered Online Training in Methods and Design to advance Home Visiting Research. Recognizing that many home visiting programs employ health workers who may have limited professional training in research, impacting their ability to collaborate in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR), a group of stakeholders —including home visitors, program managers, home visiting researchers, and research participants —collaborated to develop an online training for home visitors. The team developed and piloted this online training on research design, methods and PCOR with one HV program, then expanded the implementation to eight HV programs. The training’s effectiveness was evaluated using data from 40 trained HV staff. The long-term goal of the PROMISE study was to increase the capacity of home visitors to engage in home visiting research, generating information, and resources that are useful and effective in meeting the needs of the communities and families they serve.
Principal and Co-Investigators
Contact Information
For more information or questions about our study, please feel free to reach out to our Director of Research Operations: Alicia Diebold, MSW.
Publications
- Jensen, J. K., Ciolino, J. D., Diebold, A., Segovia, M., Degillio, A., Solano-Martinez, J., & Tandon, S. D. (2018). Comparing the effectiveness of clinicians and paraprofessionals to reduce disparities in perinatal depression via the Mothers and Babies course: Protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 7(11), e11624. https://doi.org/10.2196/11624