Minority and Underserved Youth Learning about Concussions through Virtual Environments

少数族裔和服务不足的青少年通过虚拟环境了解脑震荡

• 批准号: 10595833
• 负责人: Olu Olofinboba
• 金额: $ 27.56万
• 依托单位: MOAI TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-24 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10595833
• 关键词: Accident and Emergency department; Adolescent; Adolescent Risk Behavior; Affect; African American; African American population; Age; Brain Concussion; Budgets; Caucasians; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Child; Communities; Data Analyses; E-learning; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Emergency department visit; Enrollment; Esthesia; Evaluation; Evaluation Studies; Exhibits; Exposure to; Family; Future Teacher; Game Based Learning; Health; Hearing; Human; Impairment; Incentives; Individual; Injury; Intuition; Knowledge; Learning; Low income; Medical; Memory; Mental Depression; Methods; Midwestern United States; Minority; Modeling; Morbidity - disease rate; Movement; Neurocognitive Deficit; Personality; Persons; Phase; Play; Prevention; Public Health; Recreation; Research; Risk; Rural; Sampling; Schools; Scientist; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Sports; Students; Surveys; System; Testing; Thinking; Time; Traumatic Brain Injury; United States; Urban Community; Vision; Youth; age group; base; cognitive testing; concussive symptom; design; eighth grade; emotional functioning; ethnic diversity; experience; information processing; innovation; junior high school; learning outcome; mortality; neurobehavioral; peer; phase 1 testing; phase 2 testing; pressure; racial disparity; racial diversity; student athlete; teacher; theories; tool; usability; virtual environment; virtual world

Abstract A 2019 study from the CDC estimated 812,000 children (age 17 or younger) were treated in U.S. emergency departments for concussion or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), alone or in combination with other injuries in 2014. Another recent study, which specifically focused on children’s sports and recreation-related TBIs found the number of related emergency department visits averaged more than 283,000 annually, during 2010-2016. Concussions are the most common form of TBI. The CDC recommended focused efforts on educating youth athletes regarding the risks of concussions. African Americans comprise the majority of underserved, low- income student athletes in urban communities across the United States. A 2018 study found that African American adolescent athletes exhibited less concussion knowledge and were less likely to recognize concussion symptoms compared to Caucasian athletes. Research suggests a greater risk of neurocognitive impairment following sport-related concussion (SRC) in African American athletes. Effects of TBI can include impairments related to thinking or memory, movement, sensation (e.g., vision or hearing), and emotional functioning (e.g., personality changes and depression). These issues not only affect individuals but also can have lasting effects on families and communities. This Phase I SBIR project will develop an innovative game- based learning system that educates students about concussions. The target audience is students in their middle school years (Grades 6-8), with the information placed in the context of students’ lives and the influencing factors that matter to them. This lines up with the health curriculum used in most states, and the corresponding national standards. The students will also learn content related to concussions, including age appropriate introductions to neuro-behavioral theory, human information processing, scientific models, real- world cognitive testing tools, and examples of how they are used by scientists and medical professionals in concussion research and treatment. The students are introduced to an online virtual world where they are exposed to several narratives focused on concussions. Combined with these narratives, they play games which reinforce and gauge their learning, with the games designed to play differently each time based on user decisions and actions. The games/scores would be accessible/observable by the teacher, allowing for group discussion and incentives, tracking of learning outcomes, and integration of gameplay effectively into daily classroom activity centered on the relevant curricula. This game-based learning system will be evaluated in two middle schools chosen to represent a sampling of urban and rural schools, and racial and ethnic diversity. User testing with both students and teachers will be conducted to evaluate the usability, feasibility, and effectiveness of the game-based learning system.

抽象的 CDC 2019 年的一项研究估计，美国有 812,000 名儿童（17 岁或以下）接受了紧急治疗 2014 年，单独或合并其他损伤的脑震荡或创伤性脑损伤 (TBI) 被送至科室。 最近的另一项专门针对儿童运动和娱乐相关 TBI 的研究发现 2010年至2016年期间，相关急诊科就诊次数平均每年超过283,000人次。 脑震荡是 TBI 的最常见形式，疾病预防控制中心建议重点关注对青少年的教育。 运动员中大多数是服务水平低下的非裔美国人。 2018 年的一项研究发现，非洲裔学生运动员的收入。 美国青少年运动员对脑震荡的了解较少，也不太可能认识到 与白人运动员相比，脑震荡症状研究表明神经认知的风险更大。 非裔美国运动员运动相关脑震荡 (SRC) 后的损伤可能包括 TBI 的影响。 与思维或记忆、运动、感觉（例如视觉或听觉）和情绪相关的障碍 这些问题不仅影响个人，而且还可能影响健康。 对家庭和社区产生持久影响 第一阶段 SBIR 项目将开发一款创新游戏—— 基于学习系统，对学生进行有关脑震荡的教育。目标受众是学生。 中学阶段（6-8 年级），信息置于学生的生活和背景中 这与大多数州使用的健康课程以及对他们来说重要的影响因素一致。 学生还将学习与脑震荡相关的内容，包括年龄。 适当介绍神经行为理论、人类信息处理、科学模型、现实 世界认知测试工具，以及科学家和医疗专业人员如何使用它们的示例 向学生介绍他们所在的在线虚拟世界。 他们接触了几种以脑震荡为重点的叙述，并结合这些叙述进行游戏。 通过根据用户每次设计不同的游戏来加强和衡量他们的学习 老师可以访问/观察游戏/分数，从而允许小组进行。 讨论和激励、跟踪学习成果以及将游戏玩法有效地融入日常 以相关课程为中心的课堂活动将在以下时间进行评估。 选择两所中学代表城市和农村学校的样本，以及种族和民族的多样性。 将与学生和教师一起进行用户测试，以评估可用性、可行性和 基于游戏的学习系统的有效性。