Heart Smart

描述(由申请者提供)：迈阿密大学心理学系与迈阿密科学与天文馆博物馆合作，根据NCRR的SEPA计划，申请为期五年的综合开发和传播拨款。其目的是创建一个实践旅行展览和补充的课堂和基于网络的资源，旨在提高学生、教师和普通公众对心血管疾病风险因素的认识，以及降低这些风险和改善个人健康的策略。展览和教育资源将1)突出显示心血管风险因素在迈阿密-戴德县不同人口中的分布；2)传播与肥胖、糖尿病和冠心病等风险因素相关的疾病的范围；3)传播通过营养、活动和压力管理控制心血管风险的关键重要性。除了提高公众对这一公共卫生挑战的认识外，该项目还将开辟新的天地，展示城市科学馆如何与研究型大学合作，不仅成为交流的环境，而且还可以进行科学研究。迈阿密大学的研究生和研究人员将参与展览的开发、培训、实施、数据收集和数据分析方面，并通过这种参与将获得展览产生的新兴数据集，为与正在进行的心血管研究领域相关的论文、论文和科学出版物提供信息。该大学和博物馆还将进行一项健康教育评估项目，以评估以博物馆为基础的非正式学习课程的有效性及其对学生知识和行为的影响。这项研究将建立在迈阿密大学之前的一项研究的基础上，该研究涉及对10年级公立学校的学生进行全县范围的血压筛查，表明有相当多的人患有高血压和伴随的风险因素。该评估项目将探索10年级学生在多大程度上参与了增强的博物馆体验，并玩了一场“心血管辩论游戏”，在心血管健康知识和行为改善方面比同龄人表现出了更大的进步。在展览的开发、试点测试和实施之后，博物馆将把展览传播到各种替代场所，包括图书馆、当地医院、高中和大学。该项目网站将包括在每个地点收集的数据的不断更新的展示，辩论游戏的可下载版本，以及相关在线公共卫生资源的链接。学习创新研究所(ILI)将作为该项目的外部评估者，负责对展览进行前端、形成性和总结性评估。伊利研究所还将评估大学与博物馆的合作在多大程度上为实施与健康有关的研究提供了有效的背景。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Miami's Department of Psychology, in collaboration with the Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium, is requesting a five-year combined development and dissemination grant under NCRR's SEPA program. The purpose is to create a hands-on traveling exhibit and complementary classroom and web-based resources aimed at raising awareness among students, teachers, and the general public about cardiovascular disease risk factors and strategies for reducing these risks and improving personal health. The exhibit and educational resources will 1) serve to highlight the distribution of cardiovascular risk factors across Miami-Dade County's diverse population, 2) communicate the range of disorders associated with the risk factors, including obesity, diabetes, and coronary disease, and 3) communicate the critical importance of controlling cardiovascular risk through nutrition, activity and stress management. Besides raising public awareness about this public health challenge, the project will break new ground by demonstrating how an urban science museum, in collaboration with a research university, can serve as an environment for not only communicating but conducting scientific research. University of Miami graduate students and researchers will be involved in the development, training, implementation, data collection, and data analysis aspects of the exhibit, and through this participation will have access to the emerging data sets generated by the exhibit, informing theses, dissertations and scientific publications related to ongoing areas of cardiovascular research. The University and the Museum will also conduct a health education evaluation project to assess the effectiveness of a museum-based informal learning curriculum and its impact on student knowledge and behavior. The study will build on previous University of Miami research that has involved county wide blood pressure screening of 10th grade public school students, indicating substantial numbers with elevated blood pressure and attendant risk factors. The evaluation project will explore the extent to which 10th graders engaging in an enhanced museum experience and playing a "cardiovascular debate game" display greater gains in cardiovascular health knowledge and improvements in behavior than their peers. Following the development, pilot testing, and implementation of the exhibit, the Museum will disseminate the exhibit to a variety of alternative venues including libraries, local hospitals, high schools, and university settings. The project website will include continuously updated displays of the data collected at each venue, a downloadable version of the debate game, and links to related online public health resources. The Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI) will serve as the external evaluator for the project, responsible for front-end, formative and summative evaluation of the exhibit. ILI will also assess the extent to which the University- Museum collaboration provided an effective context for implementing health-related research.