Measuring Health, Media, Computer & Digital Literacy Among Senegalese Youth

测量健康、媒体、计算机

• 批准号: 8153197
• 负责人: DEBORAH C GLIK
• 金额: $ 7.27万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-28 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8153197
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Senegal is a country that has made substantial investments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) over the past ten years, allowing citizens access to global information systems. Today, health promotion in the developing world often involves digitally-based dissemination of health messages; however, health literacy scales to test the degree to which recipients process and use the information from these communications are lacking. Youth comprise a large component of the Senegalese population at present: 28% of the population is between 10-19 years of age. The transition from childhood to adulthood as teens develop physically, cognitively, and socio-emotionally has positive and negative impacts on health that can entail personal, social and monetary costs. Testing how youth audiences use Internet-based health information and how increased health literacy and e-health literacy impact outcomes of interest serve as the focal issues of interest underlying our FIRCA-BSS proposal. In the proposed study we bring expertise from the parent R01 grant (1-R01 HD059756-01) on adolescent health literacy to partner with Senegalese youth reproductive health researchers in the Regional Center for Training and Research in Reproductive Health (CEFOREP) and Riseau Africain de l'Education pour la Santis (RAES). We will draw a sample of 2,400 youth from approximately 5,000 high school students and out-of-school youth who will be concurrently participating with CEFOREP on the One World UK Learning about Living program. These youth will be drawn from 7 secondary schools and 3 informal learning settings in three regions of Senegal representing urban, peri- urban and rural settings and drawn as a subsample of classes. Participants will pilot a survey anonymously and answer pilot survey measures that include Media Consumption; ICT Use and Access; Basic Computer, Internet and Mobile Technology Literacy; Functional Health Literacy Levels; E-Health Literacy; Media Literacy; Knowledge; and Attitudes. Our goal is to adapt measures previously used among Senegalese youth, as well as measures used in the developed world, and create new measures to understand how youth in the developing world access, process, and use health information. The standardized measures we develop can then be used to assess and evaluate efforts to combat health disparities in Senegal and potentially other countries experiencing similar levels of communications technology development. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The goal of this study is to create a valid and reliable set of measures that can be used as scales for assessing health literacy, e-health literacy, media and computer literacy, and use of and access to computers and the Internet among in- and out-of-school youth aged 14-21 in Senegal. We will work collaboratively with Senegalese researchers. This will be a significant step toward expanding research among youth about new forms of health communication currently increasing in scope and breadth in Africa and worldwide.

描述（由申请人提供）：塞内加尔是一个在过去十年中对信息和通信技术（ICT）进行大量投资的国家，使公民可以访问全球信息系统。如今，发展中国家的健康促进通常涉及基于数字化的健康信息的传播。但是，健康素养量表以测试接收者处理的程度并使用这些通信中的信息。青年目前占塞内加尔人口的很大一部分：28％的人口在10-19岁之间。随着青少年在身体，认知上和社会情绪上发展，从童年到成年的过渡对健康产生积极和负面影响，这可能需要个人，社会和货币成本。测试青年受众如何使用基于互联网的健康信息以及如何提高健康素养和电子读写能力影响感兴趣的结果，这是我们FIRCA-BSS提案的关注问题。在拟议的研究中，我们将青少年健康素养的父母R01 Grant（1-R01 HD01 HD059756-01）带来了与塞内加尔青年生殖健康研究人员的合作，该研究人员在生殖健康培训和研究中心（CEFOREP）和Riseau Africaby Africain De l'Adivail De l'Education De l'Education Pour La Santis（Raes）（Raes）。我们将从大约5,000名高中学生和校外青年中绘制2,400名青年样本，他们将同时与CEFORP一起参加英国One World学习有关生活计划的样本。这些年轻人将在塞内加尔三个地区的7所中学和3个非正式学习环境中汲取灵感，代表城市，城市和农村环境，并作为班级的子样本绘制。参与者将匿名进行调查，并回答包括媒体消费在内的试点调查措施； ICT使用和访问；基本计算机，互联网和移动技术素养；功能健康素养水平；电子卫生素养；媒体素养；知识;和态度。我们的目标是调整以前在塞内加尔青年中使用的措施，以及发达国家使用的措施，并制定新的措施来了解发展中国家的青年如何访问，过程和使用健康信息。然后，我们开发的标准化措施可用于评估和评估与塞内加尔和其他可能经历类似通信技术开发水平的其他国家的健康差异的努力。 公共卫生相关性：这项研究的目的是创建一套有效且可靠的措施，这些措施可用作评估健康素养，电子卫生素养，媒体和计算机素养，以及在塞内加尔14-21岁的校内和校外青年中使用和访问计算机和互联网的量表。我们将与塞内加尔研究人员合作。这将是扩大有关非洲和全球范围内范围和广度的新形式的健康沟通形式的研究的重要一步。