A Translational Research Approach to Healthy Technology Usage in Language-Minority Families with Young Children

有幼儿的语言少数群体家庭健康技术使用的转化研究方法

基本信息

批准号：
10822222
负责人：
Rosa Guzman Turco
金额：
$ 27.5万
依托单位：
TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-09-20 至 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10822222
关键词：
6 year old Academy Acute Address Adopted Advocacy Advocate Age American Area Articulation Attitude Awareness Behavior Behavioral Books COVID-19 pandemic Caregiver support Caregivers Child Child Rearing Code Communication Computer software Consumption Data Decision Making Development Devices E-learning Education Educational process of instructing Effectiveness Emotional Ensure Environment Evaluation Face Family Feedback Flowers Fostering Friends Generations Goals Habits Health education Home environment Household Hybrids Informatics Intervention Interview Joints Knowledge Language Language Development Learning Libraries Linguistics Literature Measures Medical Methodology Minority Modeling National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neurocognitive Outcome Pamphlets Paper Parent-Child Relations Parents Participant Pediatrics Phase Play Positioning Attribute Process Proliferating Provider Questionnaires Recommendation Research Research Priority Resources Respondent Role Scheme Series Small Business Innovation Research Grant Social Interaction Strategic Planning Stream Surveys Technology Testing Translating Translational Research Video Recording age group bilingualism catalyst design digital digital media digital technology electronic book empowerment evidence base health care disparity health equity improved information gathering interest meetings prototype randomized, controlled study skills social tv watching underserved community usability verbal virtual virtual world web platform

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY Technology use among young children in the U.S. has become increasingly prevalent over the past decade, and the transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has renewed concerns among parents and educators about screen time. Recommendations for choosing high-quality apps and setting boundaries around device use are often conveyed through position statements, white papers, and blog posts, but the information is rarely presented in an engaging, family-friendly manner that can be readily adopted and sustained in young children’s everyday routines. As a matter of health equity, this challenge is felt even more acutely among language-minority households, who additionally face language barriers when attempting to access relevant resources. This project delivers an interactive, bilingual, hybrid virtual-and-physical world approach to address these translational gaps. It presents recommendations from the academic and medical spheres through bilingual storytelling and a suite of interactive, co-play activities in an online virtual world, then transitions the gameplay to caretaker-child interactions in the physical world, empowering users to first practice healthy technology through interactive online games and then implement those rehearsed practices in their day-to-day lives. The effectiveness of the online platform and interactive content will be evaluated through a randomized controlled study. Improvements in knowledge, attitudes, and confidence related to healthy technology use will be assessed among children and their caretakers. The platform will also be evaluated for its ability to facilitate bilingual interactions between child and caretaker that support learning and language development. Overall, our product will serve not only as a means to inform families of best technology use practices, but as a catalyst to broaden and reimagine joint play with digital devices especially among linguistic minority families.

项目概要在过去的十年里，美国幼儿对科技的使用变得越来越普遍， COVID-19 大流行期间向在线学习的过渡再次引起了家长和家长的担忧教育工作者关于选择高质量应用程序和设置界限的建议。设备使用情况通常通过立场声明、白皮书和博客文章来传达，但信息很少以一种吸引人的、适合家庭的方式呈现，并且很容易被年轻人采用和维持就健康公平而言，这一挑战在儿童中更为严重。语言少数群体家庭在尝试获取相关信息时还面临语言障碍资源。该项目提供了一种交互式、双语、混合虚拟和物理世界的方法来解决这些问题它通过双语提出了学术和医学领域的建议。在线虚拟世界中讲故事和一系列互动、共同玩活动，然后转换游戏玩法物理世界中的看护者与儿童互动，使用户能够首先实践健康的技术通过互动在线游戏，然后将这些排练的练习应用到日常生活中。在线平台和互动内容的有效性将通过随机对照进行评估研究将改善与健康技术使用相关的知识、态度和信心。还将评估该平台的促进能力。儿童和看护人之间的双语互动支持学习和语言发展。我们的产品不仅是向家庭通报最佳技术使用实践的一种手段，而且是一种催化剂扩大和重新构想数字设备的联合游戏，特别是在语言少数群体家庭中。