Improving Health and Science Literacy in a Latino Community

描述（由申请人提供）：提高科学素养和健康知识对于提高不同社区的整体健康水平、公众对研究重要性的理解以及社区参与研究至关重要。非英语社区最容易受到科学和健康素养低的影响，而且大多数解决科学素养问题的项目都不是为讲西班牙语的受众量身定制的。认识到有必要提高拉丁裔社区的科学素养，拉丁裔公共广播电台与布朗大学/妇幼医院之间建立了学术-社区伙伴关系。我们建议开发一个文化敏感的节目，以增加在讲西班牙语的广播听众的科学素养计划。在就感兴趣的具体健康主题征求社区意见后，将制定课程，通过讨论确定的健康主题，重点关注科学素养。该方案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无线电媒介对西班牙语听众是否有效。通过这种学术界与社区的伙伴关系，我们计划开发、提供和评估一个为期10周的科学素养课程。“评估西班牙语广播界对临床研究和健康主题的理解”方案将包括西班牙语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可以通过网站提供，也可以向广播电台提出要求。该项目的总体目标是提高拉丁裔社区的科学和卫生素养。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)在一项包括西班牙语广播听众的试点研究中，开发和评估测量科学素养提高的工具；(3)开发工具来评估项目参与者健康知识的增长；(4)为更多的西班牙语受众改进项目和评估工具。我们假设，用西班牙语向讲西班牙语的广播听众提供科学和健康课程将提高听众的科学素养和健康知识。该计划对拉丁裔社区和学术界有许多潜在的好处，包括：提高科学素养和健康知识，这可能转化为更好的医疗保健，增加获取科学信息的机会，增加对科学和健康相关专业的兴趣，增加科学和非专业社区之间的互动，以改进社区的研究方法，并增加对研究的参与。这项研究有可能通过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。这个项目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。

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.