Assessing Cardiovascular Risks in Deaf Adolescents who use Sign Language

评估使用手语的聋哑青少年的心血管风险

• 批准号: 8321972
• 负责人: Scott Richard Smith
• 金额: $ 16.43万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-20 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8321972
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Advisory Committees; Age; American; Cardiovascular system; Child; Cognitive; Collaborations; Communities; Community Healthcare; Computers; Development; Educational Background; Educational Curriculum; Educational Intervention; Effectiveness of Interventions; Environment; Face; Family; Focus Groups; Goals; Health; Health Promotion; Healthcare; Hearing; Hearing Impaired Persons; Intervention; Interview; K-Series Research Career Programs; Knowledge; Lead; Literature; Measures; Medical center; Mentors; Obesity; Physicians; Population; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Sampling; Scientist; Sign Language; Students; Surveys; Underserved Population; Universities; Visual; Work; Writing; abstracting; aged; base; cardiovascular risk factor; career; cohort; comparative; data sharing; design; diet and exercise; disorder prevention; effective intervention; health disparity; health literacy; high risk; high school; intervention program; literacy; meetings; pediatrician; public health relevance; skills; symposium; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Scott R. Smith, MD, MPH is a deaf pediatrician who is bilingual in English and American Sign Language (ASL). His career has focused on health care in special and often underserved populations including deaf children and adolescents who use sign language. Dr. Smith's career objective is to become a leading expert and independent researcher to conduct breakthrough research in cardiovascular health knowledge and literacy in deaf adolescents. The University of Rochester provides Dr. Smith with an ideal environment to work towards his objective with Rochester having a large population of deaf children and people and the University of Rochester Medical Center being motivated to become a center of excellence on health promotion and disease prevention with people who are deaf. Dr. Smith will pursue more advanced research training including formal coursework, mentored individualized curricula, consultative supports, mentorial advisory committee meetings, field trips, and national conferences to develop the necessary research skills and community collaborations to achieve his goals and objectives. Furthermore, because deaf people who use ASL appear to be at a higher risk for specific cardiovascular risks including obesity, Dr. Smith will work with his mentors, consultants, and advisors to conduct a research project to further his research skills development and to generate new and valuable information about critical cardiovascular health knowledge and literacy skills of deaf ASL adolescents. They will accomplish this by developing a new written English measure and survey of specific cardiovascular health knowledge and literacy related to diet, exercise, and personal family cardiovascular history based on findings from focus groups and cognitive interviews of deaf adolescents. They will then adapt this written English survey into computer- based English audio and visual and computer-based ASL video surveys and administer these surveys to cohorts of deaf and hearing adolescents to evaluate their specific cardiovascular health knowledge and literacy. Dr. Smith will share the data with the deaf and health care communities to plan future research and interventions to address the cardiovascular health disparities of the deaf ASL community. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The overarching aim of this proposed Mentored Career Development Award is for Scott Smith, MD, MPH to become an independent physician-scientist with a career focused on cardiovascular health knowledge and literacy in deaf adolescents who use sign language. The aim of the proposed mentored research project is to assess specific cardiovascular health knowledge and literacy skills in deaf adolescents who primarily communicate through American Sign Language (ASL) by developing a new measure and survey of critical cardiovascular health knowledge and literacy skills focused on diet, exercise, and personal family history. We will focus this new measure to capture aspects of health literacy not yet measured in literature, which will lead to more effective interventions to address and reduce the critical cardiovascular health disparities in the community of deaf people who communicate through sign language. (End of Abstract)

描述（由申请人提供）：Scott R. Smith，医学博士、公共卫生硕士，是一位聋哑儿科医生，精通英语和美国手语 (ASL) 双语。他的职业生涯主要关注特殊且经常得不到充分服务的人群的医疗保健，包括使用手语的聋哑儿童和青少年。史密斯博士的职业目标是成为领先的专家和独立研究员，在聋哑青少年的心血管健康知识和素养方面进行突破性研究。罗切斯特大学为史密斯博士提供了一个理想的环境来实现他的目标，因为罗切斯特有大量聋哑儿童和聋哑人，罗切斯特大学医学中心致力于成为健康促进和疾病预防方面的卓越中心，聋哑人。史密斯博士将寻求更高级的研究培训，包括正式课程、指导个性化课程、咨询支持、指导咨询委员会会议、实地考察和全国会议，以培养必要的研究技能和社区合作，以实现他的目标和目的。此外，由于使用 ASL 的聋人似乎面临更高的特定心血管风险（包括肥胖），史密斯博士将与他的导师、顾问和顾问合作开展一个研究项目，以进一步发展他的研究技能并产生新的研究成果。以及有关聋哑 ASL 青少年的重要心血管健康知识和读写技能的宝贵信息。他们将根据焦点小组和聋哑青少年认知访谈的结果，通过开发一种新的书面英语测量方法以及对与饮食、运动和个人家族心血管病史相关的特定心血管健康知识和素养的调查来实现这一目标。然后，他们将把这份书面英语调查改编成基于计算机的英语音频和视频以及基于计算机的 ASL 视频调查，并对聋哑和听力正常的青少年群体进行这些调查，以评估他们特定的心血管健康知识和素养。史密斯博士将与聋哑人和医疗保健社区分享这些数据，以规划未来的研究和干预措施，以解决聋哑 ASL 社区的心血管健康差异。 公共健康相关性：拟议的指导职业发展奖的总体目标是让 Scott Smith（医学博士、公共卫生硕士）成为一名独立的医师科学家，其职业重点是使用手语的聋哑青少年的心血管健康知识和读写能力。拟议的指导研究项目的目的是通过针对饮食、饮食等关键心血管健康知识和读写技能制定新的衡量标准和调查，评估主要通过美国手语（ASL）进行交流的聋哑青少年的特定心血管健康知识和读写技能。运动和个人家族史。我们将把这项新措施的重点放在文献中尚未衡量的健康素养方面，这将导致采取更有效的干预措施，以解决和减少通过手语交流的聋人社区中严重的心血管健康差异。 （摘要完）