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The SPUR team looking for a highly motivated research student to participate in the meta-analysis of its behavioral diagnostic tool SPUR^TM data.

• About SPUR™: SPUR is a dynamic and predictive self-assessment questionnaire that reliably detects a patient's risk of non-adherence and accurately articulates the reasons for his/her health behavior along four over-arching dimensions: Social, Psychological, Usage and Rational. Learn more.

• Mission and Goals
  • Analysis of a dataset from 4 000 patients, 4 countries and 4 therapeutic areas: diabetes, cardiology (hypertension and hyperlipidemia) and respiratory diseases (asthma and maybe COPD).
  • Cross-pathology validation of SPUR model, robustness of methodology across pathologies.
  • Refinement of scoring algorithms.
  • Exploration of new correlations and generation of insights, such as systematic differences in behavior by pathology/gender/etc.

• Skills
  • Mastery of English (C2 level).
  • Mastery of statistical analysis including Rasch modeling.
  • Education or high interest in health behavioral sciences and/or statistics.
  • Autonomy, curiosity and proactivity.

• Terms of collaboration
  • Supervisor: Kevin Dolgin.
  • Date: start date on June 1^st, 2023
  • Duration: 1 month
  • Location: remote, regular touchpoints by phone/visio

• This position is paid and we offer the following:
  • The collaborator will be the first author of the publication of the resulting analysis.
  • The collaborator will be invited to lead the meta-analysis presentation at a congress/conference.
  • The collaborator’s contribution will be promoted in a communication campaign in Observia’s networks and media.

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