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HMC Resource Center

Page Last Updated:  04/28/2008

The Health Maintenance Consortium Research Center (HMCRC) is located at the School of Rural Public Health at Texas A&M University, and is under the direction of Dr. Marcia Ory with assistance from other Resource Center staff and advisors.  The goal of the HMCRC is to provide direction to the behavioral health field by bringing together disparate theories of processes of change, relapse prevention, and ecological/multi-level contextual approaches to further understand the long-term maintenance of behavioral change and effective sustainable strategies for achieving health promotion and disease prevention goals.

Working collaboratively with NIH program administrators and HMC investigators, the HMCRC is designed to facilitate success of individual grantees and to push the boundaries of current research on behavioral processes and change research. The centralization and coordination of functions offers an economy of scale, and foci for building research and practice capacity.  The HMCRC team has substantial technical knowledge of health behavior and behavior change processes as well as previous experience in health behavior intervention research.

The HMCRC focuses on four interrelated aims to advance behavioral change research beyond the individual funded studies. Utilizing both internal and external advisors, the HMCRC is creating a scientific and administrative infrastructure to: 

  • foster ongoing cross-site communications among HMC projects;
     

  • provide technical assistance to identify common questions, methods, and measures related to maintenance and sustainability and to address cross-cutting issues that add synergy to individual HMC projects;
     

  • establish a central clearinghouse for behavioral change concepts, assessment instruments, intervention protocols, methods and data emanating from these projects that can be beneficial for other researchers and practitioners; and
     

  • disseminate research findings and tools on-line and through listservs, workshops, and symposia to increase their availability to both researchers and practitioners. While individual studies can add to this new science, a collection of coordinated studies around this common theme of maintenance of long-term behavior has the potential for making a significant impact on the nation's health and well-being.

Click here to view the Research Plan