PLUS Mission, Vision, and Goals
VISION: BIG PICTURE OF WHAT YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE
Bladder health for all
MISSION: GENERAL STATEMENT OF HOW YOU WILL ACHIEVE THE VISION
Prevent lower urinary tract symptoms and promote bladder health through research
STRATEGIES: ONE OR MORE WAYS TO USE THE MISSION STATEMENT TO ACHIEVE THE VISION
PLUS research on BH promotion and LUTS prevention will use the following strategies:
- A transdisciplinary approach
- A biopsychosocial ecological conceptual framework
- Both qualitative and quantitative research techniques; and
- Inclusion of the experiences, perspectives and voices of adolescent and adult women
GOALS: GENERAL STATEMENTS OF WHAT NEEDS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED TO IMPLEMENT A STRATEGY
The PLUS research consortium will:
- Create and refine a research definition for bladder health
- Create and refine a conceptual framework for promoting bladder health and preventing LUTS in women (and girls) throughout the life course
- Employ principles of community engagement
- Empower communities to advocate for bladder health
- Use a multi-level dissemination strategy (academic, policy, and community)
- Create and use new conceptual models and paradigms for LUTS prevention research at individual and population level
- Share experience with transdisciplinary team science with broader community
- Through our research support global efforts for bladder health promotion of LUTS prevention
OBJECTIVES: PROVIDE SPECIFIC MILESTONES WITH SPECIFIC TIMELINE FOR ACHIEVING A GOAL
The PLUS research consortium will accomplish its goals by:
- Using existing research literature to inform a definition of bladder health, identify risk and protective factors, inform LUTS prevention and bladder health promotion intervention and implementation studies
- Conducting new analyses in existing databases to inform a definition of bladder health and identifying risk and protective factors and inform intervention studies
- Developing innovative measures of bladder health and key risk or protective factors
- Characterizing bladder health in general population through a large observational study
- Conducting longitudinal cohort studies to identify risk and protective factors for LUTS and bladder health
- Developing a community engagement strategies and tools
- Conducting intervention studies for bladder health promotion and LUTS prevention
- Conducting implementation studies for bladder health promotion and LUTS prevention
- Seeding new intervention research on bladder health promotion and LUTS prevention