Science Education in Health Ed Class: Tobacco and Addiction

健康教育课中的科学教育：烟草与成瘾

• 批准号: 8091776
• 负责人: Rochelle D. Schwartz-Bloom
• 金额: $ 6.24万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8091776
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Affect; Area; Biological Factors; Businesses; Cigarette; Developed Countries; Development; Disease; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Evaluation; Faculty; Goals; Health; Health education; Knowledge; Learning; Legal; Malignant Neoplasms; Marketing; Modeling; Nicotine Dependence; Outcome; Patient Self-Report; Physical Education; Population; Predisposition; Randomized; Reporting; Research; School Teachers; Schools; Science; Scientist; Smoke; Smokeless Tobacco; Smoking; Students; Teenagers; Testing; Thinking; Tobacco; Tobacco Dependence; Tobacco Industry; Tobacco smoking; Tobacco use; Universities; Waiting Lists; addiction; base; design; high school; interest; literacy; programs; risk perception; school health; science education; smoking cessation; statistics; teacher; tool

Science literacy in the US adolescent population ranks low compared to other developed nations and is declining (National Center for Education Statistics). A consequence of this deficiency has been that students do not have the tools to make informed decisions about issues concerning their health. One area in which students may lack the scientific tools to make healthy choices is in the use of tobacco products. In particular, the tobacco industry may be able to take advantage of our students' lack of scientific literacy, especially with their creative marketing of so-called safer tobacco products (i.e., light/ultralight cigarettes, reduced-exposure products, natural cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco). Research suggests that adolescents who don't smoke may be lured into using these products because of the safer implication, or they may delay quitting smoking thinking a safer alternative will be available later on. Currently, the main forum for teaching students about tobacco, smoking, and addiction is the high school health education course. Yet, health education courses do not typically provide a level of scientific understanding of these important topics. Moreover, teachers of these courses are usually physical education teachers, who do not have the background to teach the science about tobacco and nicotine addiction. Thus, we propose a partnership between university scientists and high school teachers to help teachers bring science into their health education course. Our overall goals of the project are to 1) increase science literacy of adolescents on the topic of tobacco use and nicotine addiction, 2) provide students with tools to resist the creative marketing of alternative tobacco products, and 3) help students make appropriate decisions about (not) smoking or using other tobacco products that carry implied claims of being safer than regular cigarettes. To achieve these goals, we have 5 specific aims: 1) Develop a science education- based module on tobacco products and nicotine addiction for the high school health education course; 2) Provide professional development to health education teachers to help them serve as learning facilitators of the science education module; 3) Field-test the science education module in high school health courses using a randomized, controlled design; 4) Perform a multi-modal evaluation of the effect of the science education module on several outcomes including, science content knowledge about addiction and cancer, students' risk perception of addiction and cancer, ability to resist marketing of safer tobacco products, susceptibility to smoke/use tobacco products, and self-reported use; 5) Disseminate the program nationally. We propose that our approach may serve as a model for using science education to inoculate teens against the constant barrage of information about legal and illegal substances that cause disease, including addiction. This is especially appropriate for the high school health education course. Project Narrative: This project brings science education to the Health Education class in high schools. We propose that our approach may serve as a model for using science education to inoculate teens against the constant barrage of information about legal and illegal substances that cause disease, including addiction.

与其他发达国家相比，美国青少年的科学素养排名较低，而且 下降(国家教育统计中心)。这一缺陷的一个后果是 学生没有工具来就涉及他们健康的问题做出明智的决定。一个区域 在烟草产品的使用方面，学生可能缺乏做出健康选择的科学工具。在……里面 特别是，烟草行业可能能够利用我们的学生缺乏科学素养， 尤其是他们创造性地营销所谓的更安全的烟草产品(即，轻/超轻香烟， 减少接触的产品、天然香烟和无烟烟草)。研究表明， 不吸烟的青少年可能会因为更安全的含义而被引诱使用这些产品，或者 他们可能会推迟戒烟，以为以后会有更安全的替代品。 目前，教授学生烟草、吸烟和成瘾知识的主要论坛是High 学校健康教育课程。然而，健康教育课程通常不会提供一定程度的科学 对这些重要话题的理解。此外，这些课程的老师通常是体格健壮的。 教育教师，他们没有教授烟草和尼古丁科学的背景 上瘾。因此，我们建议大学科学家和高中教师之间建立伙伴关系，以帮助 教师将科学引入他们的健康教育课程。我们这个项目的总体目标是增加 青少年科学素养关于烟草使用和尼古丁成瘾的主题，2)为学生提供 抵制替代烟草产品创造性营销的工具，以及3)帮助学生做出适当的 关于(不)吸烟或使用其他带有隐含安全声明的烟草产品的决定 而不是普通香烟。为了实现这些目标，我们有5个具体目标：1)发展科学教育- 基于高中健康教育课程中关于烟草产品和尼古丁成瘾的模块；2) 为健康教育教师提供专业发展，帮助他们成为学习的促进者 科学教育模块；3)在高中健康课程中实地测试科学教育模块 使用随机对照设计；4)对科学的效果进行多模式评估 关于几个结果的教育模块，包括关于成瘾和癌症的科学内容知识， 学生对成瘾和癌症的风险认知，抵制更安全的烟草产品营销的能力， 对吸烟/使用烟草产品的易感性和自我报告的使用；5)在全国范围内传播该计划。 我们认为，我们的方法可以作为利用科学教育为青少年接种疫苗的模式。 关于导致疾病的合法和非法物质的持续不断的信息，包括 上瘾。这尤其适用于高中健康教育课程。项目说明： 该项目将科学教育带入高中健康教育课。我们建议我们的 这种方法可以作为一种模式，利用科学教育来为青少年接种疫苗，以抵御持续的弹幕 关于合法和非法物质导致疾病，包括成瘾的信息。