• WHFI’s Human Subjects’ Protection Training Course for Movement Instructors
WHFI’s Role in Research
• Second, we enable research projects and movement programs with compatible goals to work together.
WHFI is interested in how movement or exercise affects female physiology and -- in turn -- women’s health status. At present, we are particularly interested in collaborations involving both physiologic and psychosocial issues in women’s health.
The Institute has published NIEM-maps of some physiological processes related to women and exercise.
We seek feedback and input from readers on what is published on our site. We have three goals in relation to these maps:
1. UPDATE as research progresses
2. IDENTIFY topics needing research
3. ADD new maps on additional topics
Researchers wishing to consult with WHFI on this matter should contact the executive director.
How to Get Your Movement Program into a Research Study
Woman-centered health fitness movement programs that have a long-term safety record, are based on tested physiologic and psychosocial principles (rather than rote methodology), and an hypothesis about measureable outcomes of their program, may be considered for research purposes.
Directors of such programs wishing to consult with WHFI on this matter should contact the executive director.
WHFI’s Human Subjects’ Protection Training Course for Movement Instructors
Instructors study key documents such as the Belmont Report, which provides guidelines for dealing with study participants.
In addition, potential programs are required to demonstrate that their class content is safe, consistent and theoretically sound.
Researchers or directors of movement programs that will be participating in research projects may hire WHFI to provide Human Subjects Protection training or to help an institution or program develop their own training program.
Please contact our executive director.
WHFI’s Current Research
WHFI’s initial research project examines mechanisms through which maternal exercise may prevent or treat hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, a contributing factor to the rising prematurity rate in U.S. and world populations.
It is this collaborative undertaking that brought to our attention the need to create WHFI as an entity capable of locating or designing -- as well as implementing -- sustainable evidence-based women-centered health fitness programs for scientific purposes. The research team includes a principle investigator from the Yale University School of Medicine, who is also a volunteer Research Advisor for WHFI, and co-investigators from the Yale University School of Nursing, and from Epidemiology and Public Health, as well as the Executive Director and Research Associate from WHFI.
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