Measuring Health, Media, Computer & Digital Literacy Among Senegalese Youth

描述（由申请人提供）：塞内加尔是一个在过去十年中对信息和通信技术（ICT）进行大量投资的国家，允许公民访问全球信息系统。今天，发展中国家的健康促进通常涉及基于数字的健康信息传播;然而，缺乏健康素养量表来测试接受者处理和使用这些通信信息的程度。目前，青年在塞内加尔人口中占很大比例：10-19岁的人口占28%。青少年从童年到成年的过渡，在身体、认知和社会情感方面的发展，对健康有积极和消极的影响，可能会带来个人、社会和金钱上的代价。测试青年受众如何使用基于互联网的健康信息，以及健康素养和电子健康素养的提高如何影响感兴趣的结果，是我们FIRCA-BSS提案的核心问题。在拟议的研究中，我们带来了关于青少年健康知识的父母R 01赠款（1-R 01 HD 059756 -01）的专业知识，与生殖健康培训和研究区域中心（CEFOREP）和Riseau Africain de l 'Education pour la Santis（RAES）的塞内加尔青年生殖健康研究人员合作。我们将从大约5，000名高中生和校外青年中抽取2，400名青年作为样本，他们将与CEFOREP一起参加“一个世界英国学习生活”计划。这些青年将从塞内加尔三个地区的7所中学和3个非正式学习环境中抽取，分别代表城市、半城市和农村环境，作为班级的子样本。参与者将匿名进行试点调查，并回答试点调查措施，包括媒体消费; ICT使用和访问;基本计算机，互联网和移动的技术素养;功能健康素养水平;电子健康素养;媒体素养;知识;和态度。我们的目标是调整以前在塞内加尔青年中使用的措施，以及在发达国家使用的措施，并创建新的措施，以了解发展中国家的青年如何获取，处理和使用健康信息。然后，我们制定的标准化措施可以用来评估和评价塞内加尔以及可能经历类似通信技术发展水平的其他国家为消除健康差距所做的努力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Senegal is a country that has made substantial investments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) over the past ten years, allowing citizens access to global information systems. Today, health promotion in the developing world often involves digitally-based dissemination of health messages; however, health literacy scales to test the degree to which recipients process and use the information from these communications are lacking. Youth comprise a large component of the Senegalese population at present: 28% of the population is between 10-19 years of age. The transition from childhood to adulthood as teens develop physically, cognitively, and socio-emotionally has positive and negative impacts on health that can entail personal, social and monetary costs. Testing how youth audiences use Internet-based health information and how increased health literacy and e-health literacy impact outcomes of interest serve as the focal issues of interest underlying our FIRCA-BSS proposal. In the proposed study we bring expertise from the parent R01 grant (1-R01 HD059756-01) on adolescent health literacy to partner with Senegalese youth reproductive health researchers in the Regional Center for Training and Research in Reproductive Health (CEFOREP) and Riseau Africain de l'Education pour la Santis (RAES). We will draw a sample of 2,400 youth from approximately 5,000 high school students and out-of-school youth who will be concurrently participating with CEFOREP on the One World UK Learning about Living program. These youth will be drawn from 7 secondary schools and 3 informal learning settings in three regions of Senegal representing urban, peri- urban and rural settings and drawn as a subsample of classes. Participants will pilot a survey anonymously and answer pilot survey measures that include Media Consumption; ICT Use and Access; Basic Computer, Internet and Mobile Technology Literacy; Functional Health Literacy Levels; E-Health Literacy; Media Literacy; Knowledge; and Attitudes. Our goal is to adapt measures previously used among Senegalese youth, as well as measures used in the developed world, and create new measures to understand how youth in the developing world access, process, and use health information. The standardized measures we develop can then be used to assess and evaluate efforts to combat health disparities in Senegal and potentially other countries experiencing similar levels of communications technology development.