Educating students while recruiting underrepresented populations for Alzheimer's disease research: the Student Ambassador Program.
Educating students while recruiting underrepresented populations for Alzheimer's disease research: the Student Ambassador Program.
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10.1186/s12909-022-03749-1
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发表时间：
2022-10-05
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Budson, Andrew E.
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作者：
DeCaro, Renee;O'Connor, Maureen K.;DiTerlizzi, Christina;Sekyi-Appiah, Nana;Polk, John;Budson, Andrew E.
越来越多的阿尔茨海默病和相关疾病（ADRD）患者需要越来越多的临床医生来照顾他们。与老年人社区外展相关的教育计划可能有助于激发对未来ADRD临床职业的兴趣，同时提高社区对ADRD的认识，并帮助招募代表性不足的参与者参与研究。波士顿大学阿尔茨海默病研究中心（BU ADRC）创建了BU ADRC学生大使计划，在那里医学生，研究生和对医学感兴趣的本科生在学年期间完成了一门课程，其中包括六个教育和三个外展活动，包括每月以痴呆症为重点的教学会议和外展活动，重点是黑人参与者的招募。实施了一项前后计划调查设计，以评估学生对痴呆症和相关疾病的知识和态度的变化。2015年9月至2020年5月，37名学生完成了该计划。课程完成后，学生表现出对痴呆症的了解增加，愿意与痴呆症患者一起工作，对患者的态度更加积极，以及同情心在医生实践中的作用。在招聘福利方面，学生们帮助BU ADRC从代表性不足的群体中接触到老年人，他们可以作为未来研究的参与者。BU ADRC学生大使计划可以作为其他希望鼓励学生考虑在特定领域从事职业的临床研究计划的典范。此外，这种模式有可能增加研究参与者的入组。我们讨论了我们最初的努力和未来工作的方向，以量化学生教育和参与者招募的预期效益的局限性。 在线版本包含补充材料，可通过10.1186/s12909-022-03749-1获得。
Increasing numbers of patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and related disorders (ADRD) necessitates increasing numbers of clinicians to care for them. Educational programming related to community outreach with older adults may help inspire interest in future ADRD clinical careers, while increasing awareness of ADRD in the community and aiding recruitment of underrepresented participants into research studies. The Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (BU ADRC) created the BU ADRC Student Ambassador Program, where medical students, graduate students, and undergraduates interested in medicine completed a curriculum during the academic year that included six educational and three outreach events, including monthly dementia-focused didactic meetings and outreach focusing on Black participant recruitment. A pre-post program survey design was implemented to assess changes in students’ knowledge of and attitudes toward dementia and related disorders. Between September 2015 and May 2020, thirty-seven students completed the program. Following program completion, students demonstrated increased knowledge of dementia and willingness to work with patients with dementia, as well as more positive attitudes toward patients and the role of empathy in physician practice. In terms of recruitment benefits, the students helped the BU ADRC reach older adults from underrepresented groups who could serve as participants in future research studies. The BU ADRC Student Ambassador Program can serve as a model for other clinical research programs who wish to encourage students to consider a career in a specific field. In addition, this model has the potential to increase enrollment of participants to research studies. We discuss limitations of our initial efforts and directions for future work to quantify the anticipated benefits for student education and participant recruitment. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-022-03749-1.
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