ชื่อโครงการงานวิจัย: Dementia Care in Thailand: Infrastructure and Research Development
ประเภทโครงการงานวิจัย: บทความวิจัย
ชื่อผู้วิจัย: ดร.ศิราณี ศรีหาภาค
ผู้วิจัยร่วม: Hongtu Chen, Somsak Chunharus, Ladda Damrikarnlerd, Komatra Chuengsatiansup Siranee Sihapark, Sue E. Levkoff, and Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
การเผยแพร่/แหล่งเผยแพร่:
ปีงบประมาณที่สำเร็จ: 2013
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Project Overview and Personnel Involved
Duration of the Award(9/1/2011 – 8/31/2013): The R21 grant was originally awarded on 9/15/2006 and supposed to end on 2/28/2007. Partially due to the impact of the flooding in Thailand in 2011, we requested and were given a standard 12-month no-cost extension. Thus, the project is scheduled to end on 08/31/2013.
Personnel involved: The proposed R21 established a unique collaboration dedicated to enhancing the capacity for dementia care research in Thailand. During the past two years, we have built upon and developed collaborations among two leading partnering groups in Thailand: the Thai Gerontology Research and Development Institute (TGRI) under the Thai National Institute Foundation, and the Society and Health Institute under the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand; and two organizations in the USA: the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)/Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Stanford University School of Medicine (SUSM).
Over the project period, a team of nine key people were extensively involved in project activities. On the U.S. side, Dr. Sue E. Levkoff, Sc.D. (Consultant to the project, Endowed Chair and Professor of Social Work at South Carolina University), and Dr. Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, PhD, (Consultant, Professor and Director of Geriatric Education Center at SUSM) assisted Dr. Hongtu Chen (PI and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry) in the study design of the R21 project.
On the collaborating Thailand side, Dr. Somsak Chunharus, MD (co-investigator, Director of Thai National Health Foundation) and Dr. Ladda Damrikarnlerd, MD (Co-investigator, Director of TGRI), Dr. Sirintorn Chansirikarnjana, MD (Consultant/Advisor to this project, President of Thai Alzheimer’s Association), and Dr. Varalak Srinonprasert, MD (Consultant/Advisor, head geriatrician at the Mehidol Medical School in Thailand) were involved throughout the project implementation. Dr. Komatra Chuengsatiansup, MD, PhD (co-investigator, Direct of Society and Health Institute, Ministry of Public Health of Thailand) and Dr. Siranee Sihapark, PhD (Field Research Manager, Associated Professor at Boromarajonani College of Nursing, Khon Kaen University) led the effort of staff training for qualitative data collection and data analysis, with the administrative assistance from Ms. Kanisorn Tengrangfrom the Society and Health Institute.
The specific aims: After adjustment to the reduced funding from original proposed two years to actual one year, the R21 project focused on the following two aims:
Aim 1.Build research capacity by training Thai researchers in qualitative research methods;
Aim 2.Conduct in-depth qualitative interviews and participant observation with Thai dementia caregivers to document their caregiving experiences and to identify culturally acceptable intervention strategies.
