The Science of Healthful Living

健康生活的科学

• 批准号: 8485706
• 负责人: CATHERINE Dunnington ENNIS
• 金额: $ 24.86万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8485706
• 关键词: 17 year old; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adult; Age; Americas; Awareness; Basic Science; Behavior; Benchmarking; Biological Sciences; Child; Clinical Research; Clinical Trials; Communities; Data; Development; Development Plans; Disease; Eating; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Event; Experimental Designs; Family; Family health status; Family member; Funding; Future; Health; Health Sciences; Health education; Heart; Hispanics; Injury; Instruction; Intention; Knowledge; Latino; Learning; Life; Life Style; Linear Models; Living Standards; Malignant Neoplasms; Myocardial Infarction; Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus; North Carolina; Obesity; Online Systems; Outcome; Overweight; Physical Education; Physical activity; Poverty; Prevention; Process; Public Health; Race; Randomized Clinical Trials; Reporting; Research; Risk; Schedule; Schools; Science; Scientist; Solutions; Students; Teenagers; Testing; Time; Training; Trust; United States National Institutes of Health; Vision; Weight maintenance regimen; base; body system; career; design; eighth grade; experience; health knowledge; health science research; improved; interest; lectures; literacy; middle school; model design; nutrition; research study; science education; sedentary; stress management; teacher; willingness

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this SEPA project is to design and field test a science-enriched middle school healthful living curriculum to increase students' knowledge and interest in health-related science, enhance their intention to pursue a life science-related career, and improve the communities' understandings of NIH funded clinical and basic research. In 2010 the Trust for America ranked North Carolina (NC) as the state with the 10th highest rate of obesity in the nation. Currently, more than one third of NC adolescents and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese. Six local education associations (LEAs) in the Piedmont region of NC will partner with scientists and educators on this SEPA team to design and evaluate The Science of Healthful Living Curriculum (HLC). The HLC will be based on the National Science Content Standards and the NC Standard Course of Study for 6th-8th grade students. Currently, the six LEA partners do not have a HLC based on the NC Standard Course of Study. This SEPA middle school HLC will use student-centered modules to help teens examine the effects of their physical activity and nutrition choices on body systems. The specific aims of this SEPA project are to evaluate the extent to which (Aim 1) the science-enriched HLC can increase students' knowledge of health-related science and the science inquiry process; (Aim 2) students' personal experiences with the HLC can increase their interest in and understanding of effective science practices and their vision of themselves as future scientists; and (Aim 3) students' participation with their families in HLC-related events can increase their family's trust in and use of NIH-sponsored research results, enhancing their life and health choices. The HLC will be assessed during funding Yrs 2 - 3 using a randomized clinical trial in which 20 middle schools, representing the 6 LEA partners, will be assigned to either experimental (HLC) or control conditions. Curricular effects will be analyzed using a hierarchical linear modeling design. The professional development plan includes extensive teacher training throughout the funding period, increasing teachers' science knowledge and ability to use science-education teaching strategies. At the conclusion of the clinical trial period, the curriculum will be disseminated locally and nationally to new middle schools within 3 teacher support conditions: sustaining, full, and web-based. The dissemination will be evaluated using a quasi-experimental design in funding Yrs 4 - 5 to test the effectiveness of the three dissemination conditions. Health and physical education teachers will implement the HLC in their classes. The Healthful Living concept reflects a deep integration of Life and Health-related Science Standards taught using a constructivist, student centered approach to the scientific inquiry process. The HLC leverages instructional time currently allocated to health/physical education to increase time for science education. As a result of this SEPA, over 33,000 young adolescents will conduct experiments examining the effects of healthful living choices on weight and stress management and preventable diseases, such as Type II diabetes and many heart related illnesses and events.

描述（由申请人提供）：该SEPA项目的长期目标是设计和现场测试一项具有科学的中学健康生活课程，以提高学生对与健康相关的科学的了解和兴趣，增强他们从事与生活有关的职业的意图，并提高社区对NIH资助的临床和基础研究的了解。在2010年，美国对北卡罗来纳州（NC）的信任是全国肥胖率第10高的国家。目前，超过三分之一的NC青少年和三分之二的成年人超重或肥胖。北卡罗来纳州皮埃蒙特地区的六个地方教育协会（LEAS）将与该SEPA团队的科学家和教育者合作，设计和评估健康生活课程科学（HLC）。 HLC将基于六至8年级学生的国家科学内容标准和NC标准学习课程。目前，六个LEA合作伙伴没有基于NC标准研究课程的HLC。 SEPA中学HLC将使用以学生为中心的模块来帮助青少年研究其体育锻炼和营养选择对人体系统的影响。该SEPA项目的具体目的是评估（AIM 1）富含科学的HLC的程度，可以增加学生对健康相关的科学和科学探究过程的了解； （AIM 2）学生在HLC中的个人经历可以增加对有效科学实践的兴趣和理解，以及对自己作为未来科学家的愿景； （AIM 3）学生与家人参加与HLC相关的活动的参与可以增加家庭对NIH赞助的研究结果的信任和使用，从而增强他们的生活和健康选择。 HLC将在资金2-3期间使用随机临床试验进行评估，其中20个代表6个LEA伴侣的中学将分配给实验性（HLC）或对照条件。课程效应将使用层次线性建模设计进行分析。专业发展计划包括在整个资金期间进行广泛的教师培训，增加了教师科学知识和使用科学教育策略的能力。在临床试验期结束时，该课程将在3个教师支持条件下在本地和全国范围内传播给新的中学：维持，完整和基于网络。在资助YRS 4-5中，将使用准实验设计来评估传播，以测试三个传播条件的有效性。卫生和体育老师将在他们的课程中实施HLC。健康的生活概念反映了生活和与健康相关的科学标准的深刻融合，该标准使用建构主义，学生以学生为中心的科学探究过程进行了教授。 HLC利用目前分配给卫生/体育教育的教学时间来增加科学教育的时间。由于这种SEPA，超过33,000名年轻青少年将进行研究，以检查健康生活选择对体重和压力管理以及可预防疾病的影响，例如II型糖尿病以及许多心脏有关的疾病和事件。