Improving Health and Science Literacy in a Latino Community

提高拉丁裔社区的健康和科学素养

• 批准号: 7690696
• 负责人: MAUREEN G PHIPPS
• 金额: $ 5.67万
• 依托单位: WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL-RHODE ISLAND
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-25 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7690696
• 关键词: Address; Clinical Research; Collaborations; Communities; Community Participation; Educational Curriculum; Future; Goals; Health; Health Sciences; Healthcare; Hospitals; Infant; Information Sciences; Knowledge; Latino; Literacy Programs; Measures; Methods; Participant; Physicians; Pilot Projects; Probability; Program Evaluation; Radio; Research; Research Methodology; Science; Scientist; Telephone; Translating; Translations; Trust; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Woman; base; health literacy; improved; innovation; interest; literacy; member; programs; teacher; tool; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Improving science literacy and health knowledge is essential to enhancing the overall health of diverse communities, public understanding of the importance of research and community participation in research. Non-English speaking communities are the most vulnerable to low rates of science and health literacy and most programs addressing science literacy issues are not tailored to the Spanish-speaking audience. Identifying the need to improve science literacy in the Latino community, an academic- community partnership has been established between Latino Public Radio and Brown University/ Women & Infants Hospital. We propose to develop a culturally sensitive program to increase science literacy program in a Spanish-speaking radio audience. After seeking community input about the specific health topics of interest, the curriculum will be developed to focus on science literacy through the discussion of the identified health topics. This program is geared towards increasing the community's understanding of clinical research and relevant health issues. Evaluating the impact of the program, including both science literacy and health knowledge, will allow us to understand whether or not using a radio medium is effective for a Spanish-speaking audience. Through this academic-community partnership, we plan to develop, deliver and evaluate a 10-week science literacy curriculum. The program, ESCUCHE (Evaluating the Spanish radio Community's Understanding of Clinical research and Health topics), will involve interactive sessions between the Spanish-speaking radio audience and expert teachers. The opportunity to listen to past programs will be made available through the website and by request to the radio station. The overall goal of this project is to increase science and health literacy in the Latino community. The specific aims of the project include: (1) Developing a science literacy program to be delivered to a Spanish-radio audience; (2) Developing and evaluating tools to measure the increase in science literacy in a pilot study including Spanish-radio listeners; (3) Developing tools to evaluate increases in health knowledge in the program participants: and, (4) Refining the program and evaluation tools for a larger Spanish-speaking audience. We hypothesize that delivering a science and health curriculum in Spanish to a Spanish-speaking radio audience will increase science literacy and health knowledge among listeners. This program has many potential benefits for the Latino community and the academic community including: increasing science literacy and health knowledge which may translate into better health care, increasing access to science information, increasing interest in science and health related professions, increasing the interaction between the scientific and lay communities to improve research methods in the community, and increasing participation in research. This study has the potential to improve public understanding of clinical research and scientific methods through health topics delivered by a trusted community-based physician. The approach used in this program has the potential to inform future projects and enhance collaboration among scientists, community members and the NIH.

描述（由申请人提供）：提高科学素养和健康知识是必不可少的，以提高不同社区的整体健康，公众对研究和社区参与研究的重要性的理解。非英语社区最容易受到科学和健康知识普及率低的影响，大多数解决科学知识普及问题的方案都不是针对西班牙语受众的。确定需要提高拉丁裔社区的科学素养，拉丁裔公共广播电台和布朗大学/妇女和婴儿医院之间建立了学术-社区伙伴关系。我们建议制定一个文化敏感的方案，以提高科学素养计划在讲西班牙语的广播观众。在征求社区对感兴趣的具体健康主题的意见后，将通过讨论确定的健康主题，开发侧重于科学素养的课程。该计划旨在提高社区对临床研究和相关健康问题的理解。评估该计划的影响，包括科学素养和健康知识，将使我们能够了解使用广播媒体是否对讲西班牙语的观众有效。通过这种学术社区的伙伴关系，我们计划开发，提供和评估一个为期10周的科学素养课程。该方案ESCUCHE（评估西班牙广播界对临床研究和健康主题的理解）将涉及讲西班牙语的广播听众和专家教师之间的互动会议。收听过去节目的机会将通过网站和向广播电台提出要求提供。该项目的总体目标是提高拉丁美洲社区的科学和健康素养。该项目的具体目标包括：（1）制定一项向西班牙广播听众提供的科学素养方案;（2）开发和评估工具，以衡量包括西班牙广播听众在内的试点研究中科学素养的提高;（3）开发工具，以评估方案参与者健康知识的提高：以及，（4）为更大的西班牙语受众完善程序和评估工具。我们假设，提供一个科学和健康课程在西班牙语的西班牙语广播听众将增加科学素养和健康知识的听众。该计划对拉丁裔社区和学术界有许多潜在的好处，包括：增加科学素养和健康知识，这可能转化为更好的医疗保健，增加获得科学信息，增加对科学和健康相关专业的兴趣，增加科学和外行社区之间的互动，以改善社区的研究方法，并增加参与研究。这项研究有可能通过由值得信赖的社区医生提供的健康主题来提高公众对临床研究和科学方法的理解。该计划中使用的方法有可能为未来的项目提供信息，并加强科学家，社区成员和NIH之间的合作。