Heart Smart

心智

• 批准号: 7174580
• 负责人: Patrice Geralyn Saab
• 金额: $ 30.12万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-26 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7174580
• 关键词: awareness; clinical research; health; heart; university

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Miami's Department of Psychology, in collaboration with the Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium, is requesting a five-year combined development and dissemination grant under NCRR's SEPA program. The purpose is to create a hands-on traveling exhibit and complementary classroom and web-based resources aimed at raising awareness among students, teachers, and the general public about cardiovascular disease risk factors and strategies for reducing these risks and improving personal health. The exhibit and educational resources will 1) serve to highlight the distribution of cardiovascular risk factors across Miami-Dade County's diverse population, 2) communicate the range of disorders associated with the risk factors, including obesity, diabetes, and coronary disease, and 3) communicate the critical importance of controlling cardiovascular risk through nutrition, activity and stress management. Besides raising public awareness about this public health challenge, the project will break new ground by demonstrating how an urban science museum, in collaboration with a research university, can serve as an environment for not only communicating but conducting scientific research. University of Miami graduate students and researchers will be involved in the development, training, implementation, data collection, and data analysis aspects of the exhibit, and through this participation will have access to the emerging data sets generated by the exhibit, informing theses, dissertations and scientific publications related to ongoing areas of cardiovascular research. The University and the Museum will also conduct a health education evaluation project to assess the effectiveness of a museum-based informal learning curriculum and its impact on student knowledge and behavior. The study will build on previous University of Miami research that has involved county wide blood pressure screening of 10th grade public school students, indicating substantial numbers with elevated blood pressure and attendant risk factors. The evaluation project will explore the extent to which 10th graders engaging in an enhanced museum experience and playing a "cardiovascular debate game" display greater gains in cardiovascular health knowledge and improvements in behavior than their peers. Following the development, pilot testing, and implementation of the exhibit, the Museum will disseminate the exhibit to a variety of alternative venues including libraries, local hospitals, high schools, and university settings. The project website will include continuously updated displays of the data collected at each venue, a downloadable version of the debate game, and links to related online public health resources. The Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI) will serve as the external evaluator for the project, responsible for front-end, formative and summative evaluation of the exhibit. ILI will also assess the extent to which the University- Museum collaboration provided an effective context for implementing health-related research.

描述（由申请人提供）：迈阿密大学心理学系与迈阿密科学与天文馆博物馆合作，要求根据NCRR的SEPA计划提供一项为期五年的综合开发和传播赠款。其目的是创建一个动手旅游展览和补充课堂和基于网络的资源，旨在提高学生，教师和公众对心血管疾病风险因素和降低这些风险和改善个人健康的策略的认识。展览和教育资源将1）用于强调迈阿密戴德县不同人群中心血管风险因素的分布，2）传达与风险因素相关的疾病范围，包括肥胖，糖尿病和冠心病，以及3）通过营养，活动和压力管理来控制心血管风险的至关重要性。除了提高公众对这一公共卫生挑战的认识外，该项目还将通过展示城市科学博物馆如何与研究型大学合作，不仅可以作为交流的环境，还可以作为进行科学研究的环境，从而开辟新的天地。迈阿密大学的研究生和研究人员将参与展览的开发，培训，实施，数据收集和数据分析方面，并通过这种参与将有机会获得展览产生的新兴数据集，为与心血管研究正在进行的领域相关的论文，学位论文和科学出版物提供信息。大学和博物馆亦会进行一项健康教育评估计划，以评估以博物馆为基础的非正式学习课程的成效及其对学生知识和行为的影响。这项研究将建立在以前的迈阿密大学的研究基础上，该研究涉及全县10年级公立学校学生的血压筛查，表明大量学生患有血压升高和伴随的风险因素。该评估项目将探讨10年级学生参与增强博物馆体验和玩“心血管辩论游戏”的程度，这些学生在心血管健康知识和行为改善方面比同龄人有更大的收获。在展览的开发、试点测试和实施之后，博物馆将把展览传播到各种替代场所，包括图书馆、当地医院、高中和大学。该项目网站将包括在每个地点收集的数据的不断更新的显示，辩论游戏的可下载版本，以及相关的在线公共卫生资源的链接。学习创新研究所（ILI）将担任该项目的外部评估员，负责展览的前端、形成性和总结性评估。国际医学研究所还将评估大学与博物馆的合作在多大程度上为开展与健康有关的研究提供了有效的背景。