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博物馆和天文馆合作，正在NCRR的SEPA项目下申请为期五年的联合开发和传播资助。目的是创建一个实际操作的巡回展览和补充课堂和网络资源，旨在提高学生、教师和公众对心血管疾病风险因素和减少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)突出心血管风险因素在迈阿密-戴德县不同人口中的分布，2)传达与风险因素相关的疾病范围，包括肥胖、糖尿病和冠状动脉疾病，以及3)传达通过营养、活动和压力管理控制心血管风险的重要性。除了提高公众对这一公共卫生挑战的认识外，该项目还将开辟新天地，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，还可以作为开展科学研究的环境。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的工作，并通过这种参与，将有机会访问展览产生的新兴数据集，为正在进行的心血管研究领域的论文、学位论文和科学出版物提供信息。大学和博物馆还将开展一项健康教育评价项目，以评估以博物馆为基础的非正式学习课程的有效性及其对学生知识和行为的影响。这项研究将以迈阿密大学之前的研究为基础，该研究涉及全县10年级公立学校学生的血压筛查，表明有相当多的人血压升高并伴有风险因素。该评估项目将探索参与强化博物馆体验和玩“心血管辩论游戏”的10年级学生在心血管健康知识和行为改善方面比同龄人获得更大收获的程度。随着展览的开发、试点测试和实施，博物馆将把展览传播到各种不同的场所，包括图书馆、当地医院、高中和大学。该项目的网站将包括不断更新在每个场地收集的数据，辩论游戏的可下载版本，以及相关在线公共卫生资源的链接。学习创新研究所（ILI）将作为项目的外部评估机构，负责展品的前端、形成性和总结性评估。ILI还将评估大学-博物馆合作在多大程度上为实施与健康有关的研究提供了有效的环境。