School Health Programs: Expanding measurement and evaluation outcome

学校健康计划：扩大衡量和评估结果

• 批准号: 7493594
• 负责人: Katherine Beale Bevans
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-31 至 2010-08-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7493594
• 关键词: Health; Programs; Expanding; measurement; evaluation

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project summary: Dr. Bevans is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, part-time faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and a school psychologist. Her application is supported by her mentors, Drs. Christopher Forrest and Anne Riley and by expert advisors who specialize in physical education, health education, nutrition, measurement, and statistics. Bevans' long-term career goal is to become an expert on school health programs (SHPs) that reduce risk behaviors and increase health-promoting behaviors. She has three specific career goals: to develop (1) skills needed to effectively measure the quality of SHPs using multiple methods; (2) skills in advanced biostatistical methods (e.g., multivariate analyses, structural equation modeling, and multilevel modeling); and (3) conceptual knowledge of best practices in SHP delivery. These aims with be achieved through coursework, workshop/conference participation, directed reading, mentorship, advising, and research experiences. Dr. Bevan's proposed research will test the hypothesis that the quality of three SHP components (physical education, health education, nutrition services) is positively associated with students' self-assessed health and school performance. There are three specific aims: (1) to validate and refine measures of SHP quality; (2) to investigate the extent to which resources that support SHPs are linked to the quality of SHP delivery; and (3) to test the hypothesis that SHP quality is linked to students' self- assessed health and school performance. This proposal takes advantage of an ongoing research study which provides access to 34 schools and the child- and parent-reports of the health and functioning of over 2,800 students in grades 4 through 8. Relevance: Increasingly, schools are recognized as logical settings for the delivery of health promotion and risk prevention services to large segments of the population. There are limited resources to support SHPs, so it is essential to identify those programs that have the greatest impact on child functioning. This career award would support Dr. Bevans' development as a researcher committed to this cause. Results from her proposed studies will guide the development and evaluation of interventions to improve policy, procedures, and the direct delivery of SHPs, and ultimately children's health and school performance.

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要：Bevans博士是宾夕法尼亚大学医学院和费城儿童医院的助理研究教授，约翰·霍普金斯公共卫生学院的兼职教师以及一名学校心理学家。她的申请得到了她的导师博士的支持。克里斯托弗·福雷斯特（Christopher Forrest）和安妮·赖利（Anne Riley）以及专门从事体育，健康教育，营养，测量和统计的专家顾问。 Bevans的长期职业目标是成为学校健康计划（SHP）的专家，以减少风险行为并增加促进健康的行为。她有三个特定的职业目标：要使用多种方法有效地测量SHP质量所需的（1）技能； （2）高级生物统计学方法的技能（例如，多元分析，结构方程建模和多级建模）； （3）SHP交付中最佳实践的概念知识。这些目标是通过课程，研讨会/会议参与，定向阅读，指导，咨询和研究经验来实现的。 Bevan博士提出的研究将检验以下假设：三个SHP组成部分（体育，健康教育，营养服务）的质量与学生自我评估的健康和学校表现呈正相关。有三个特定的目标：（1）验证和完善SHP质量的度量； （2）研究支持SHP的资源与SHP交付质量相关的程度； （3）测试SHP质量与学生自我评估的健康和学校表现有关的假设。该提案利用了一项正在进行的研究，该研究提供了对34所学校的访问权限以及4至8年级的2800名学生的健康和运作的儿童和父母报告。相关性：越来越多的学校被认为是为大量人群提供健康促进和风险预防服务的逻辑环境。支持SHP的资源有限，因此必须确定那些对儿童功能最大的计划。该职业奖将支持Bevans博士作为致力于这一事业的研究人员的发展。她拟议的研究的结果将指导干预措施的发展和评估，以改善SHP的政策，程序和直接交付，并最终导致儿童的健康和学校表现。