Deaf Adolescents' Learning of Cardiovascular Health Information: Sources and Access Challenges.
Deaf Adolescents' Learning of Cardiovascular Health Information: Sources and Access Challenges.
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聋哑青少年对心血管健康信息的学习：来源和获取挑战。
DOI：
10.1093/deafed/env021
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
Hauser,PeterC
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作者：
Smith,ScottR;Kushalnagar,Poorna;Hauser,PeterC
聋人心血管疾病的危险性高于普通人群，这可能与其心血管健康知识的差异有关。这项现象学研究描述了来自纽约罗切斯特的20名使用手语的聋人青少年，他们中的许多人拥有许多积极的特征来支持他们的健康素养，学习心血管健康信息和他们获得健康信息的生活经历。我们的目标是最终利用这些信息来改善对这一人群和其他聋哑青少年的心血管健康教育，这些青少年的健康知识水平较低，风险较高。聋人双语研究人员采访了聋人青少年，转录和编码的数据，并描述了调查结果。心血管健康信息的五个主要来源包括家庭，健康教育教师，医疗保健提供者，印刷材料和非正式来源。尽管具有有利的特点，有助于加强健康素养，研究参与者描述了重大挑战，从每一个来源获得健康信息。他们还表现出心血管健康知识的不一致性，特别是关于心脏病发作，中风和胆固醇。这些研究结果表明，非常需要额外的公共资金来研究聋人青少年的非正式健康相关学习，制定无障碍和文化上适当的健康调查和健康教育方案，改善口译员教育，并通过社交媒体传播信息。
Deaf individuals have more cardiovascular risks than the general population that are believed to be related to their cardiovascular health knowledge disparities. This phenomenological study describes where 20 deaf sign language-using adolescents from Rochester, New York, many who possess many positive characteristics to support their health literacy, learn cardiovascular health information and their lived experiences accessing health information. The goal is to ultimately use this information to improve the delivery of cardiovascular health education to this population and other deaf adolescents at a higher risk for weak health literacy. Deaf bilingual researchers interviewed deaf adolescents, transcribed and coded the data, and described the findings. Five major sources of cardiovascular health information were identified including family, health education teachers, healthcare providers, printed materials, and informal sources. Despite possessing advantageous characteristics contributing to stronger health literacy, study participants described significant challenges with accessing health information from each source. They also demonstrated inconsistencies in their cardiovascular health knowledge, especially regarding heart attack, stroke, and cholesterol. These findings suggest a great need for additional public funding to research deaf adolescents’ informal health-related learning, develop accessible and culturally appropriate health surveys and health education programming, improve interpreter education, and disseminate information through social media.