Improving Health and Science Literacy in a Latino Community

提高拉丁裔社区的健康和科学素养

• 批准号: 7690696
• 负责人: MAUREEN G PHIPPS
• 金额: $ 5.67万
• 依托单位: WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL-RHODE ISLAND
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-25 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7690696
• 关键词: Address; Clinical Research; Collaborations; Communities; Community Participation; Educational Curriculum; Future; Goals; Health; Health Sciences; Healthcare; Hospitals; Infant; Information Sciences; Knowledge; Latino; Literacy Programs; Measures; Methods; Participant; Physicians; Pilot Projects; Probability; Program Evaluation; Radio; Research; Research Methodology; Science; Scientist; Telephone; Translating; Translations; Trust; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Woman; base; health literacy; improved; innovation; interest; literacy; member; programs; teacher; tool; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Improving science literacy and health knowledge is essential to enhancing the overall health of diverse communities, public understanding of the importance of research and community participation in research. Non-English speaking communities are the most vulnerable to low rates of science and health literacy and most programs addressing science literacy issues are not tailored to the Spanish-speaking audience. Identifying the need to improve science literacy in the Latino community, an academic- community partnership has been established between Latino Public Radio and Brown University/ Women & Infants Hospital. We propose to develop a culturally sensitive program to increase science literacy program in a Spanish-speaking radio audience. After seeking community input about the specific health topics of interest, the curriculum will be developed to focus on science literacy through the discussion of the identified health topics. This program is geared towards increasing the community's understanding of clinical research and relevant health issues. Evaluating the impact of the program, including both science literacy and health knowledge, will allow us to understand whether or not using a radio medium is effective for a Spanish-speaking audience. Through this academic-community partnership, we plan to develop, deliver and evaluate a 10-week science literacy curriculum. The program, ESCUCHE (Evaluating the Spanish radio Community's Understanding of Clinical research and Health topics), will involve interactive sessions between the Spanish-speaking radio audience and expert teachers. The opportunity to listen to past programs will be made available through the website and by request to the radio station. The overall goal of this project is to increase science and health literacy in the Latino community. The specific aims of the project include: (1) Developing a science literacy program to be delivered to a Spanish-radio audience; (2) Developing and evaluating tools to measure the increase in science literacy in a pilot study including Spanish-radio listeners; (3) Developing tools to evaluate increases in health knowledge in the program participants: and, (4) Refining the program and evaluation tools for a larger Spanish-speaking audience. We hypothesize that delivering a science and health curriculum in Spanish to a Spanish-speaking radio audience will increase science literacy and health knowledge among listeners. This program has many potential benefits for the Latino community and the academic community including: increasing science literacy and health knowledge which may translate into better health care, increasing access to science information, increasing interest in science and health related professions, increasing the interaction between the scientific and lay communities to improve research methods in the community, and increasing participation in research. This study has the potential to improve public understanding of clinical research and scientific methods through health topics delivered by a trusted community-based physician. The approach used in this program has the potential to inform future projects and enhance collaboration among scientists, community members and the NIH.

描述（由申请人提供）：改善科学素养和健康知识对于增强不同社区的整体健康，公众对研究重要性以及社区参与研究的重要性至关重要。非英语社区最容易受到低科学和健康素养的影响，大多数解决科学素养问题的计划并不是针对讲西班牙语的受众量身定制的。确定有必要提高拉丁裔社区的科学素养，在拉丁美洲公共广播电台和布朗大学/妇女与婴儿医院之间建立了学术社区伙伴关系。我们建议制定一个对文化敏感的计划，以增加讲西班牙语的广播观众的科学素养计划。在寻求有关特定健康兴趣健康主题的社区意见之后，该课程将通过讨论已确定的健康主题的讨论来侧重于科学素养。该计划旨在提高社区对临床研究和相关健康问题的理解。评估该计划的影响，包括科学素养和健康知识，将使我们能够了解使用无线电媒体是否对讲西班牙语的受众有效。通过这种学术社区合作伙伴关系，我们计划开发，提供和评估为期10周的科学素养课程。该计划是Escuche（评估西班牙广播社区对临床研究和健康主题的理解），将涉及讲西班牙语的广播观众与专家老师之间的互动会议。通过网站和请求到广播电台提供听取过去节目的机会。该项目的总体目标是提高拉丁裔社区的科学和健康素养。该项目的具体目的包括：（1）制定科学素养计划，以交付给西班牙拉迪奥观众； （2）开发和评估工具，以衡量包括西班牙 - 拉迪奥听众在内的试点研究中的科学素养的提高； （3）开发工具来评估计划参与者中健康知识的增长：以及（4）为更大的讲西班牙语受众的计划和评估工具完善。我们假设将西班牙语的科学和健康课程提供给讲西班牙语的广播观众将增加听众之间的科学素养和健康知识。该计划对拉丁裔社区和学术界具有许多潜在的好处，包括：增加科学素养和健康知识，这些知识可能会转化为更好的医疗保健，增加对科学和健康相关的科学和健康相关职业的兴趣，从而增加科学和外行社区之间的相互作用，以改善社区的研究方法，并增加研究参与。这项研究有可能通过受信任的社区医师提供的健康主题来提高公众对临床研究和科学方法的理解。该计划中使用的方法有可能为未来的项目提供信息，并增强科学家，社区成员和NIH之间的合作。