Assessing Health Information Consumers' Competencies in Managing Digital Media: A

评估健康信息消费者管理数字媒体的能力：A

• 批准号: 7858009
• 负责人: Svetlana Ivanitskaya
• 金额: $ 7万
• 依托单位: CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-03 至 2011-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7858009
• 关键词: Administrator; Adult; American; Belief; Case Study; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Computers; Consumer Participation; Coupled; Data; Data Collection; Data Files; Databases; Decision Making; Dictionary; Dietitian; Digital Libraries; Discipline; Education; Educational Background; Educational Curriculum; Emotional; Enrollment; Family member; Foxes; Friends; Future; Government; Guidelines; Health; Health Educators; Health Occupations; Health Personnel; Health Professional; Health Resources; Health education; Income; Individual; Information Resources; Information and Media; Institution; Instruction; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Label; Librarians; Libraries; Low income; Measures; Medical; Methodology; Methods; Newspapers; Parents; Participant; Patients; Peer Review; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physician Assistants; Physicians; Printing; Psychometrics; Public Health; Publishing; Quality Indicator; Reporting; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Safety; Sampling; Services; Source; Students; Technology; Television; Text; Training; United States Food and Drug Administration; Validation; World Health Organization; animation; base; college; digital; experience; graduate student; health definition; health literacy; individualized feedback; instructor; instrument; interactive multimedia; literacy; literate; member; programs; public health relevance; research in practice; skills; validation studies; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This research serves to evaluate the methodology and technology for measuring health information competencies (beliefs, skills, and knowledge) pertaining to finding and evaluating health resources from new digital media. This application serves to: (a) Validate an online interactive assessment of health information competencies; (b) Assess health information competencies of future health professionals and (c) Evaluate the impact of the assessment on participants' competency-building intentions. To achieve this aim, data will be collected on the health information competencies of future health professionals who are enrolled in academic programs at a higher education institution. For validation purposes, the sample includes individuals whose background varies from first year in college and no experience to earning an advanced degree and practicing an information-intensive discipline. In addition to the instrument validation study, the following research questions will be answered: 1) To what extent are future health professionals skilled in managing and judging digital health information? 2) What are their weakest and strongest competencies and do those competencies vary by health profession and education level? 3) What intentions do young and pre-professional assessment takers have for building their health information competencies as a result of completing the assessment and receiving its individualized feedback? New quantitative data will be collected: 400 students will complete an interactive online assessment of health information competencies and 25 medical librarians will rate the importance of items included in the assessment. In addition, archival data on competency-building intensions of 424 undergraduates will be content analyzed. Data acquired through this research will be used to suggest curriculum improvements, to establish library-instructor collaborations for competency-building intentions, and to estimate the higher- end level of skills held by health information consumers in the U.S. who have the advantage of specialized training in a health-related discipline. Assessment of undergraduate and graduate students that educates them about digital health information resources will have the following benefits: (a) the participants will be better equipped to make informed decisions about their health; (b) as better educated community members with Internet access, study participants will be more likely to share high-quality health information with their less literate family members and friends; and (c) after completing their education, these health professionals will be better able to provide services to patients with low literacy and income. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Data acquired through this research will be used to suggest curriculum improvements, to establish library-instructor collaborations for competency-building intentions, and to estimate the higher-end level of skills held by health information consumers in the U.S. who have the advantage of specialized training in a health-related discipline. Assessment of undergraduate and graduate students that educates them about digital health information resources will have the following benefits: (a) the participants will be better equipped to make informed decisions about their health; (b) as better educated community members with Internet access, study participants will be more likely to share high-quality health information with their less literate family members and friends; and (c) after completing their education, these health professionals will be better able to provide services to patients with low literacy and income.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究旨在评估用于测量健康信息能力（信念，技能和知识）的方法和技术，这些能力与从新数字媒体中发现和评估健康资源有关。该应用程序用于：（a）对卫生信息能力进行在线互动评估;（B）评估未来卫生专业人员的卫生信息能力;（c）评价评估对参与者能力建设意向的影响。为了实现这一目标，将收集数据的健康信息能力的未来卫生专业人员谁是在高等教育机构的学术课程注册。为了验证的目的，样本包括个人的背景不同，从大学一年级，没有经验，以获得高级学位和实践信息密集型学科。除了仪器验证研究之外，还将回答以下研究问题：1）未来的卫生专业人员在管理和判断数字健康信息方面的熟练程度如何？2)他们最弱和最强的能力是什么，这些能力是否因卫生专业和教育水平而异？3)作为完成评估和接受其个性化反馈的结果，年轻和职业前评估接受者有什么意图来建立他们的健康信息能力？将收集新的定量数据：400名学生将完成健康信息能力的互动式在线评估，25名医学图书馆员将对评估中包含的项目的重要性进行评级。此外，还对424名大学生能力建设意向的档案数据进行了内容分析。通过这项研究获得的数据将被用来建议课程改进，建立图书馆教师合作能力建设的意图，并估计在美国的健康信息消费者拥有的技能的高端水平。对本科生和研究生进行评估，教育他们了解数字健康信息资源，将有以下好处：（a）参与者将更有能力就其健康做出明智的决定;（B）作为接受过更好教育的社区成员，可以上网，研究参与者将更有可能与文化程度较低的家人和朋友分享高质量的健康信息;及（c）这些医护专业人员在完成学业后，将更有能力为文化程度和收入较低的病人提供服务。公共卫生相关性：通过这项研究获得的数据将被用来建议课程改进，建立图书馆教师合作能力建设的意图，并估计在美国的健康信息消费者拥有的技能的高端水平。对本科生和研究生进行评估，教育他们了解数字健康信息资源，将有以下好处：（a）参与者将更有能力就其健康做出明智的决定;（B）作为接受过更好教育的社区成员，可以上网，研究参与者将更有可能与文化程度较低的家人和朋友分享高质量的健康信息;及（c）这些医护专业人员在完成学业后，将更有能力为文化程度和收入较低的病人提供服务。