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