MyStudentBody-Community College: A Health Website for Students

MyStudentBody-Community College：学生健康网站

• 批准号: 7803413
• 负责人: Elizabeth Anna Donovan
• 金额: $ 23.16万
• 依托单位: INFLEXXION, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-01 至 2011-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7803413
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Age; Alcohols; American; Amphetamines; Area; Behavioral; Cocaine; Communities; Community Health; Community Health Education; Consultations; Country; Development Plans; Drug Prevention Program; Drug usage; Enrollment; Equilibrium; Feedback; Goals; Health; Health Resources; Healthcare; High Prevalence; Individual; Internet; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Life; Link; Literature; Marijuana Smoking; Modeling; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Population; Prevention; Public Health; Research Design; Resources; Self Efficacy; Site; Smoke; Smoking; Stress; Students; Technology; Testing; Work; alcohol and other drug; base; binge drinking; college; community intervention; cost; cost effective; design; disorder risk; experience; high risk; improved; innovation; meetings; programs; psychosocial; public health relevance; skills; socioeconomics; tool; university student; usability; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Community colleges provide an affordable way for millions of Americans to achieve their educational goals. Currently, 11.5 million students, 46% of all US undergraduates, are enrolled at community colleges. Many students are from low socioeconomic backgrounds and many work while attending college, both of which lead to a more challenging college experience. Indeed, many community college students do struggle academically, and a large proportion do not finish their program of study. An area of particular concern is community college students' health. As well as concerns about general health, many students binge drink, and there are particularly high rates of smoking, and use of marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines. Consequences for students include increased disease risk as well as an even more difficult learning experience. Arguably, this college population is in the greatest need of wellness and alcohol and other drug (AOD) prevention programming. However, community college students are, in a sense, an invisible population. They are virtually ignored in the literature; as such, students' health needs are not discussed, and indeed, are not met. Community college students are offered very few, if any, health resources. In part, community colleges cannot afford to provide extensive resources. But additionally, no commercial programs appear to be geared towards community college students. A cost effective, comprehensive wellness, and AOD prevention program is needed. It should specifically address the community college population, be tailored to specific needs of community college students, and serve as a link to community resources. We propose to develop an interactive, online health intervention for community college students focusing on wellness and AOD prevention. MyStudentBody-Community College will use Web 2.0 technology to offer students articles, skill- based courses, assessments, tools, courses, and links to community resources. It will be tailored to the individual needs of students by taking into account psychosocial, behavioral and demographic information provided by the student. Our review of available college health websites suggests that no site is tailored to community college students and it will thus represent a significant advance in healthcare options for community college students. The goals for the program are to: increase self-efficacy for managing stress; increase knowledge about AOD; increase wellbeing, and decrease alcohol and drug use. The content and intervention model will be developed through consultation with community college health staff, community college students, and institutional decision makers. Institutional decision makers will also be involved in developing implementation plans. We will use interviews to determine key domains of information. We will seek feedback from students, community college health staff, and institutional decision makers on the feasibility of the Phase I concept through a review of a demonstration program. If the program is successful, it will have a significant public health impact by improving the health of community college students. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Currently, 11.5 million students, 46 percent of all US undergraduates, are enrolled at community colleges. This college population is, arguably, in the greatest need of wellness and AOD prevention programming; however, community college students are offered very few, if any, health resources. We propose to develop an interactive, online wellness and AOD prevention website, which, if successful, will have a significant public health impact by improving the health of community college students.

描述（由申请人提供）：社区学院为数百万美国人提供了一种负担得起的方式来实现他们的教育目标。目前，社区大学有 1150 万名学生，占美国本科生总数的 46%。许多学生的社会经济背景较低，而且许多学生在上大学期间工作，这两者都导致了更具挑战性的大学经历。事实上，许多社区学院的学生确实在学业上遇到困难，而且很大一部分人没有完成他们的学习计划。特别值得关注的一个领域是社区学院学生的健康。除了对整体健康的担忧外，许多学生还酗酒，吸烟、吸食大麻、可卡因和安非他明的比例特别高。对学生造成的后果包括疾病风险增加以及学习经历更加困难。可以说，这些大学生最需要健康以及酒精和其他药物 (AOD) 预防计划。然而，社区学院的学生从某种意义上来说是一个隐形人群。它们在文献中几乎被忽视了。因此，学生的健康需求没有得到讨论，实际上也没有得到满足。社区学院的学生获得的健康资源即使有也很少。在某种程度上，社区大学无力提供广泛的资源。但此外，似乎没有任何商业项目是针对社区学院学生的。需要一个具有成本效益、全面的健康和 AOD 预防计划。它应该专门针对社区大学人群，针对社区大学学生的具体需求进行定制，并作为社区资源的链接。我们建议为社区学院学生开发一种交互式在线健康干预措施，重点关注健康和 AOD 预防。 MyStudentBody-Community College 将使用 Web 2.0 技术为学生提供文章、基于技能的课程、评估、工具、课程以及社区资源链接。它将考虑学生提供的社会心理、行为和人口统计信息，根据学生的个人需求进行定制。我们对现有大学健康网站的审查表明，没有任何网站是为社区学院学生量身定制的，因此这将代表社区学院学生医疗保健选择的重大进步。该计划的目标是： 提高管理压力的自我效能；增加有关AOD的知识；提高健康水平，减少饮酒和吸毒。内容和干预模式将通过与社区学院卫生人员、社区学院学生和机构决策者的协商来制定。机构决策者也将参与制定实施计划。我们将通过访谈来确定信息的关键领域。我们将通过对示范计划的审查，征求学生、社区学院卫生人员和机构决策者对第一阶段概念可行性的反馈。如果该计划成功，将通过改善社区学院学生的健康对公共健康产生重大影响。 公共卫生相关性：目前，社区大学有 1150 万名学生（占美国本科生总数的 46%）。可以说，这些大学生最需要健康和 AOD 预防计划；然而，社区学院的学生获得的医疗资源即使有也很少。我们建议开发一个交互式在线健康和 AOD 预防网站，如果成功，将通过改善社区学院学生的健康对公共卫生产生重大影响。