Addressing vaccine hesitancy in Baltimore City through a youth engagement/health literacy STEM initiative

通过青年参与/健康素养 STEM 倡议解决巴尔的摩市的疫苗犹豫问题

• 批准号: 10399195
• 负责人: CHRISTOPHER D'ADAMO
• 金额: $ 5.4万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10399195
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Advocacy; African American; Area; Baltimore; COVID-19; COVID-19 pandemic; COVID-19 vaccination; COVID-19 vaccine; Career Choice; Cities; Color; Communities; Community Networks; Community Outreach; Development; Education; Educational Curriculum; Evaluation; Feedback; Focus Groups; Foundations; Future; Future Generations; Grant; Health; Health Promotion; Healthcare; Healthcare Systems; Heart; Herd Immunity; High School Student; Infrastructure; Institution; Interest Group; Knowledge; Link; Local Government; Maryland; Medical center; Minority; Modeling; Modification; Next Generation Science Standards; Parents; Population; Public Health; Questionnaires; Recording of previous events; Research; Resources; STEM research; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education; Structural Racism; Students; System; Teacher Professional Development; Testing; Translating; Trust; Universities; Vaccine Research; Vaccines; Virus; Work; Youth; base; career; cohort; college; community engaged research; community engagement; disparity reduction; distrust; education resources; experience; hands on research; health literacy; high school; higher education; innovation; member; novel vaccines; obesity prevention; programs; skills; success; summer program; systems research; vaccine acceptance; vaccine access; vaccine development; vaccine evaluation; vaccine hesitancy

Project Summary/Abstract University of Maryland (UMB) CURE Connections (C2) is an integral component of a minority STEM education pipeline in which West Baltimore high school students gain STEM enrichment including hands-on research and community outreach through a network of minority-focused college programs at UMB and its partner institutions. For this project, we will expand upon our current C2 curriculum by adapting, implementing, and evaluating a youth-engagement/health literacy strategy to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccine uptake. Central to our aims is a new capacity-building partnership with the University of Maryland Center for Vaccine Development (CVD), a nationally recognized leader in vaccine research that has been at the forefront of COVID-19 vaccine development and testing. We will integrate CVD expertise and resources into our established network of community, medical center, and local government sectors partners. CVD partners will support the adaptation of the Wellness Champions for Change-Student (WCC-S) curriculum to address COVID- 19, vaccine science, and promotion of vaccine uptake. This curriculum originally focused on obesity prevention and was developed and tested at UMB as a model for health promotion via youth advocacy/health literacy. This new vaccine-focused curriculum will be implemented during our 6-week intensive summer programming with C2 high school scholars. C2 scholars will then work with CVD faculty/students and UMB community partners to disseminate vaccine education in West Baltimore communities. In this proposal, we will use the adaptation framework, FRAME, to develop modifications to the curriculum to focus on vaccine hesitancy and access. Specifically, we aim to: (1) Adapt a youth advocacy/health literacy curriculum originally developed for obesity prevention using the FRAME adaptation framework to tailor content to address vaccine hesitancy as a strategy to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake among West Baltimore residents. This curriculum will align with Next Generation Science Standards to provide foundational knowledge required to understand and translate concepts related to vaccine science and teach skills focused on health literacy promotion, youth advocacy, and community engaged research that culminates with a scholar-driven community project to reduce vaccine hesitancy. (2) Implement and evaluate the adapted curricula with a cohort of C2 scholar high school students via a 6-week summer program. The C2 scholars are the cornerstone of this proposal and function as credible conduits for dissemination of vaccine education from UMB to the West Baltimore communities in which they reside. The success of this program will demonstrate the feasibility of cross-sector partnerships and their potential to help erode structural racism that is at the heart of vaccine hesitancy and access disparities. Program adaptations to address vaccine uptake provide a model for its application to address future public health issues thereby creating a sustainable, community-focused infrastructure for public health promotion.

项目概要/摘要 马里兰大学 (UMB) CURE Con​​nections (C2) 是少数群体 STEM 教育不可或缺的组成部分 西巴尔的摩高中学生获得 STEM 丰富知识的管道，包括实践研究和 通过 UMB 及其合作机构的以少数族裔为中心的大学项目网络进行社区外展。 对于这个项目，我们将通过调整、实施和评估来扩展我们当前的 C2 课程 青年参与/健康素养战略，以解决 COVID-19 疫苗犹豫问题并增加疫苗接种 吸收。我们目标的核心是与马里兰大学中心建立新的能力建设伙伴关系 疫苗开发（CVD），国家公认的疫苗研究领导者，一直走在最前沿 COVID-19 疫苗开发和测试。我们将把 CVD 专业知识和资源整合到我们的 建立了社区、医疗中心和地方政府部门合作伙伴网络。 CVD 合作伙伴将 支持调整健康倡导者变革学生 (WCC-S) 课程，以应对新冠肺炎疫情 19、疫苗科学，促进疫苗接种。该课程最初侧重于预防肥胖 并在 UMB 开发和测试，作为通过青年宣传/健康素养促进健康的模型。这 新的以疫苗为重点的课程将在我们与 C2 为期 6 周的夏季强化课程中实施 高中学者。然后，C2 学者将与 CVD 教职员工/学生和 UMB 社区合作伙伴合作， 在西巴尔的摩社区传播疫苗教育。在本提案中，我们将使用改编 框架，FRAME，对课程进行修改，重点关注疫苗犹豫和获取问题。 具体来说，我们的目标是：（1）改编最初针对肥胖症开发的青年倡导/健康素养课程 使用 FRAME 适应框架定制内容以解决疫苗犹豫问题的预防策略 增加西巴尔的摩居民对 COVID-19 疫苗的接种。本课程将与下一步保持一致 生成科学标准提供理解和翻译概念所需的基础知识 与疫苗科学和教学技能相关，重点是健康素养促进、青年宣传和社区 参与的研究最终形成了一个由学者驱动的社区项目，以减少疫苗犹豫。 (2) 通过为期 6 周的 C2 学者高中生群体实施和评估改编课程 暑期课程。 C2 学者是该提案的基石，并充当可靠的渠道 从 UMB 向他们居住的西巴尔的摩社区传播疫苗教育。这 该计划的成功将证明跨部门伙伴关系的可行性及其提供帮助的潜力 消除结构性种族主义，这是疫苗犹豫和获取不平等的核心。节目改编 解决疫苗的使用问题为其应用提供一个模型，以解决未来的公共卫生问题，从而创造 促进公共卫生的可持续、以社区为中心的基础设施。