Practice Variation Among School Health Personnel

学校卫生人员的实践差异

• 批准号: 6646159
• 负责人: PAMELA S BUCHALTER
• 金额: $ 3.28万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-20 至 2005-03-19
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6646159
• 关键词: allied health education; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; data collection methodology /evaluation; elementary school; experience; health care personnel education; health care policy; health care professional practice; health care quality; health care service evaluation; health related legal; health services research tag; human data; nursing care evaluation; nursing care quality; nursing education; nursing skill /technique; predoctoral investigator; student health services; training level

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite the proliferation of Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP) serving as school health care providers, there has been little research conducted to identify the differences in their practice as compared to school-based RN's. This prospective, mixed-design study will examine: 1) the differences in the number, characteristics, and health complaints of students assessed by RN's and UAP; 2) the differences in the assessment conducted, the interventions provided, and the return to classroom rates for students seen by RN's and UAP; and 3) the impact of experience, education, and training on these variables. Data will be collected from student health encounters over a four-week period by use of the School Health Encounter Form developed by the researcher. Experience, education, and training will be measured for each school health care provider using the researcher-developed Participant Description Form. Both forms were developed based on previous school health research and will be pilot tested prior to use in this study. Chi square analysis and t-tests will be computed to detect differences between RN's and UAP. Multiple linear regression analysis will be used to test for the effect of experience, education, and training. The results of this work will provide valuable data on the impact of school health care providers on student outcomes. Furthermore, this study will provide a foundation for future work exploring the role and educational credentials needed to ensure that school health care providers are effective in serving students.

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管无证辅助人员（UAP）作为学校卫生保健提供者的扩散，很少有研究进行，以确定他们的做法相比，以学校为基础的RN的差异。这项前瞻性的混合设计研究将检查：1）RN和UAP评估的学生数量，特征和健康投诉的差异; 2）RN和UAP看到的学生进行的评估，提供的干预措施和返回课堂率的差异;和3）经验，教育和培训对这些变量的影响。数据将收集从学生的健康接触超过四周的时间内使用的学校健康接触形式开发的研究人员。经验，教育和培训将使用研究人员开发的参与者描述表来衡量每个学校卫生保健提供者。这两种形式都是根据以前的学校健康研究开发的，并将在本研究中使用之前进行试点测试。将计算卡方分析和t检验，以检测RN和UAP之间的差异。多元线性回归分析将用于测试经验、教育和培训的影响。这项工作的结果将提供有关学校卫生保健提供者对学生成绩的影响的宝贵数据。此外，这项研究将为未来的工作探索的作用和教育证书，以确保学校卫生保健提供者有效地为学生服务提供了基础。