MyStudentBody-Community College: A Health Website for Students

MyStudentBody-Community College：学生健康网站

• 批准号: 7803413
• 负责人: Elizabeth Anna Donovan
• 金额: $ 23.16万
• 依托单位: INFLEXXION, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-01 至 2011-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7803413
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Age; Alcohols; American; Amphetamines; Area; Behavioral; Cocaine; Communities; Community Health; Community Health Education; Consultations; Country; Development Plans; Drug Prevention Program; Drug usage; Enrollment; Equilibrium; Feedback; Goals; Health; Health Resources; Healthcare; High Prevalence; Individual; Internet; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Life; Link; Literature; Marijuana Smoking; Modeling; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Population; Prevention; Public Health; Research Design; Resources; Self Efficacy; Site; Smoke; Smoking; Stress; Students; Technology; Testing; Work; alcohol and other drug; base; binge drinking; college; community intervention; cost; cost effective; design; disorder risk; experience; high risk; improved; innovation; meetings; programs; psychosocial; public health relevance; skills; socioeconomics; tool; university student; usability; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Community colleges provide an affordable way for millions of Americans to achieve their educational goals. Currently, 11.5 million students, 46% of all US undergraduates, are enrolled at community colleges. Many students are from low socioeconomic backgrounds and many work while attending college, both of which lead to a more challenging college experience. Indeed, many community college students do struggle academically, and a large proportion do not finish their program of study. An area of particular concern is community college students' health. As well as concerns about general health, many students binge drink, and there are particularly high rates of smoking, and use of marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines. Consequences for students include increased disease risk as well as an even more difficult learning experience. Arguably, this college population is in the greatest need of wellness and alcohol and other drug (AOD) prevention programming. However, community college students are, in a sense, an invisible population. They are virtually ignored in the literature; as such, students' health needs are not discussed, and indeed, are not met. Community college students are offered very few, if any, health resources. In part, community colleges cannot afford to provide extensive resources. But additionally, no commercial programs appear to be geared towards community college students. A cost effective, comprehensive wellness, and AOD prevention program is needed. It should specifically address the community college population, be tailored to specific needs of community college students, and serve as a link to community resources. We propose to develop an interactive, online health intervention for community college students focusing on wellness and AOD prevention. MyStudentBody-Community College will use Web 2.0 technology to offer students articles, skill- based courses, assessments, tools, courses, and links to community resources. It will be tailored to the individual needs of students by taking into account psychosocial, behavioral and demographic information provided by the student. Our review of available college health websites suggests that no site is tailored to community college students and it will thus represent a significant advance in healthcare options for community college students. The goals for the program are to: increase self-efficacy for managing stress; increase knowledge about AOD; increase wellbeing, and decrease alcohol and drug use. The content and intervention model will be developed through consultation with community college health staff, community college students, and institutional decision makers. Institutional decision makers will also be involved in developing implementation plans. We will use interviews to determine key domains of information. We will seek feedback from students, community college health staff, and institutional decision makers on the feasibility of the Phase I concept through a review of a demonstration program. If the program is successful, it will have a significant public health impact by improving the health of community college students. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Currently, 11.5 million students, 46 percent of all US undergraduates, are enrolled at community colleges. This college population is, arguably, in the greatest need of wellness and AOD prevention programming; however, community college students are offered very few, if any, health resources. We propose to develop an interactive, online wellness and AOD prevention website, which, if successful, will have a significant public health impact by improving the health of community college students.

描述（由申请人提供）：社区大学为数百万美国人提供了一种负担得起的方式来实现他们的教育目标。目前，有1150万学生（占美国本科生总数的46%）在社区大学就读。许多学生来自较低的社会经济背景，许多人在上大学时还在工作，这两者都导致了更具挑战性的大学经历。事实上，许多社区大学的学生在学业上确实很挣扎，而且很大一部分人没有完成他们的学习计划。一个特别值得关注的领域是社区大学生的健康。除了对整体健康的担忧外，许多学生酗酒，吸烟、吸食大麻、可卡因和安非他明的比例尤其高。对学生的影响包括疾病风险的增加以及更加困难的学习经历。可以说，大学生群体最需要健康和酒精和其他药物（AOD）预防规划。然而，从某种意义上说，社区大学生是一个看不见的群体。它们在文献中几乎被忽略了；因此，学生的健康需求没有得到讨论，实际上也没有得到满足。社区大学的学生得到的健康资源非常少，如果有的话。在某种程度上，社区大学无法提供广泛的资源。但除此之外，似乎没有针对社区大学生的商业项目。我们需要一个具有成本效益的、全面的健康和AOD预防计划。它应该专门针对社区大学人口，针对社区大学生的具体需求，并作为社区资源的链接。我们建议为社区大学生开发一个互动的在线健康干预，重点关注健康和AOD预防。MyStudentBody-Community College将使用Web 2.0技术为学生提供文章、基于技能的课程、评估、工具、课程和社区资源链接。它将根据学生的个人需要，考虑到学生提供的社会心理、行为和人口统计信息。我们对现有大学健康网站的审查表明，没有一个网站是为社区大学生量身定制的，因此它将代表社区大学生在医疗保健选择方面的重大进步。这个项目的目标是：提高管理压力的自我效能；增加对AOD的认识；增加幸福感，减少酒精和毒品的使用。内容和干预模式将通过与社区学院卫生人员、社区学院学生和机构决策者协商制定。机构决策者也将参与制定执行计划。我们将使用访谈来确定信息的关键领域。我们将通过对示范项目的审查，就第一阶段概念的可行性征求学生、社区学院卫生人员和机构决策者的反馈意见。如果该计划成功，它将通过改善社区大学生的健康状况，对公共卫生产生重大影响。