Teaching to Learn: WV-HSTA Students Take CBPR to Their Community

描述（由申请人提供）：西弗吉尼亚大学Robert C. Byrd健康科学中心的健康科学与技术学院（HSTA）提交了这项提案，采用基于社区的参与式研究（CBPR）的新方法，以代谢综合征和预防为重点，将生物医学研究人员和高中教师聚集在一起，向来自医疗服务不足社区的9 -12年级学生传播科学教育。目标是创建一种新的设计，以改善难以接触到服务不足的阿巴拉契亚人口的卫生知识普及和生物医学科学教育。CBPR的关键组成部分将纳入适合人口和年龄的背景下，以基于调查的经验为基础，将代谢综合征作为医疗重点，并纳入以营养和锻炼为中心的生活方式干预措施。学生和教师将与科学家合作开展代谢综合征和预防研究项目，其中涉及生活方式干预，学生将他们的新知识和理解传递给他们的家人和医疗服务不足的社区。未被充分代表的学生将被鼓励从事生物医学领域的职业。在教育和社区参与方面处于领先地位的学生将有助于消除研究人员、临床医生和来自代表性不足人群的患者之间的障碍；以及研究人员和CBPR中潜在的代表性不足的参与者之间的关系。具体目标1：每年为12名教师提供暑期教师专业发展，同时为160名参加暑期科学丰富体验的11年级学生提供CBPR机会。具体目标2：每年为160名代表性不足的11年级学生提供暑期科学丰富课程，让他们在生物医学实验室与科学家一起研究代谢综合征的不同方面，“边做边学”。具体目标3：每年为全州HSTA俱乐部的160名11年级学生和100名代表性不足的9 -12年级学生提供学年科学丰富。拟议项目的结果是将过去成功的基线数据收集扩展到干预数据收集，并了解一个新的更广泛的主题-代谢综合征。这项提议的影响是使健康信息和预防策略对服务不足的人群来说更容易理解和有趣，并通过代谢综合征及其预防的教育来改善西弗吉尼亚人的健康。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA) of West Virginia University Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center submits this proposal with the novel approach of using Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) focused on metabolic syndrome and prevention as the format, to bring together biomedical researchers and high school teachers to disseminate science education to 9th-12th grade students from medically underserved communities. The objective is to create a novel design to improve health literacy and biomedical science education in hard to reach under-served Appalachian populations. Critical components of CBPR will be embedded in a population-appropriate and age-appropriate context, with inquiry based experiences using metabolic syndrome as the medical focus and incorporating life-style interventions centered on nutrition and exercise. Students and teachers will partner with scientists in metabolic syndrome and prevention research projects involving life-style interventions, in which STUDENTS transmit their new knowledge and understanding to their families and to medically underserved communities. Underrepresented students will be encouraged to pursue careers in biomedical fields. Students leading in the education and community involvement will aid in dismantling barriers between researchers, clinicians, and patients from under-represented populations; and between researchers and potential under-represented participants in CBPR. This proposal will focus on the following specific aims: Specific Aim 1: To provide summer teacher professional development to 12 teachers/year while introducing CBPR opportunities to 160 11th grade students participating in a summer science enrichment experience. Specific Aim 2: To provide summer science enrichment to 160 11th grade under-represented students a year in "learning by doing" as they engage in biomedical labs working with scientists on different aspects of the metabolic syndrome. Specific Aim 3: To provide academic year science enrichment to 160 11th graders and 100 additional under-represented 9th -12th grade students/year in HSTA clubs across the state. The outcomes of the proposed project are to expand on the past grant's success of base-line data gathering to data gathering with interventions, and to understand a new broader topic-metabolic syndrome. The impact of this proposal is to make health information and prevention strategies easily understandable and interesting to under-served populations, and to improve the health of West Virginians through education on metabolic syndrome and its prevention.