Educational Television Program for Children of Immigrant Families

移民家庭儿童教育电视节目

• 批准号: 7482177
• 负责人: WILLIAM Z TAN
• 金额: $ 94.96万
• 依托单位: TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-15 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7482177
• 关键词: Adult; Advocate; Attention; Child; Child Language; Child health care; Childhood; Cholesterol; Clinical; Communication; Communities; Community Health; Controlled Study; Daily; Diet; Diet Habits; Double-Blind Method; Education; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Emergency Situation; Ensure; Ethnic Origin; Exposure to; Family; Family member; Food Hypersensitivity; Foundations; Goals; Health; Health Professional; Health Services; Health Status; Health education; Healthcare Systems; Hispanics; Household; Immigrant; Institutes; Intervention; Language; Latino; Learning; Length; Medical; Mentally Ill Persons; Nature; New York; Nursery Schools; Office Visits; Outcome; Parents; Patients; Pediatrics; Phase; Phase I Clinical Trials; Population; Process; Program Development; Protocols documentation; Provider; Public Health; Randomized; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Resources; School-Age Population; Series; Services; Sesame - dietary; Siblings; Social Work; Techniques; Television; Universities; Variant; Vocabulary; Writing; age group; concept; design; elementary school; fruits and vegetables; grandparent; health belief; health disparity; health literacy; improved; innovation; instructor; intergenerational; medical schools; member; nutrition; obesity prevention; outreach; pediatric department; programs; skills; sociolinguistics; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The language barrier between immigrant parents and their English-dominant children is a pervasive and relatively unrecognized problem in an estimated 12 million U.S. households. This intergenerational language gap often leads to adverse health outcomes for both children and adults for the following reasons: (1) it hinders young children's ability to communicate with their parents when they feel sick; and (2) as children are inevitably relied upon as interpreters for family members during office visits and medical emergencies, they are ill-prepared both linguistically and mentally for such a difficult task. This project seeks to develop a television program that can bridge the intergenerational language gap and improve the health status of all members of an immigrant household. During our Phase I study, we developed a pilot episode and successfully demonstrated that it was an effective tool for achieving both of the stated educational goals. This Phase II proposal seeks to build on that foundation and create a six-episode animated series, focusing on the issue of childhood nutrition and obesity prevention amongst the Hispanic population. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed project will develop an innovative television series that combines language and health education and can be enjoyed by both children and parents. The television program aims to enhance children's language skills in their heritage language, improve immigrant parents' English proficiency, provide exposure to important health concepts, and promote intergenerational communication.

描述（由申请人提供）：移民父母和他们以英语为主的孩子之间的语言障碍是一个普遍存在的问题，在大约1200万美国家庭中，这是一个相对未被认识到的问题。这种代际语言差异通常会导致儿童和成人的不良健康结果，原因如下：(1)它阻碍了幼儿在生病时与父母沟通的能力；(2)由于孩子们不可避免地要在办公室拜访和医疗紧急情况时作为家庭成员的翻译，他们在语言和心理上都没有准备好承担这样一项艰巨的任务。该项目旨在制作一个电视节目，以弥合代际语言差距，改善移民家庭所有成员的健康状况。在我们的第一阶段研究中，我们开发了一个试验集，并成功地证明了它是实现既定教育目标的有效工具。第二阶段的提案旨在以此为基础，制作一个六集的动画系列，重点关注西班牙裔人口的儿童营养和肥胖预防问题。与公共卫生的关系：拟议的项目将开发一个创新的电视连续剧，将语言和卫生教育结合起来，儿童和家长都可以欣赏。该电视节目旨在提高儿童的母语语言技能，提高移民父母的英语水平，提供重要的健康概念，促进代际交流。