ESCALA (Escuela y Carrera Latina/Latino School and Career)

ESCALA（Escuela y Carrera Latina/拉丁裔学校和职业）

• 批准号: 9133838
• 负责人: CHARLES R MARTINEZ
• 金额: $ 22.48万
• 依托单位: IRIS MEDIA, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-13 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9133838
• 关键词: 19 year old; Administrator; Adolescent; Adult; Area; Behavioral; Birth Rate; Caribbean region; Cellular Phone; Censuses; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Central American; Child; College Preparation; Colon; Communication Tools; Decision Making; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Economics; Education; Educational Intervention; Educational Materials; Ensure; Equipment; Ethnic group; Evaluation; Family; Feedback; Female; Focus Groups; Future; Future Teacher; Goals; Health; Health system; Healthy People 2020; High School Student; Hispanics; Housing; Human Resources; Instruction; Intention; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Language; Latina; Latino; Life; Light; Link; Mental Depression; Mexican; Minority; Minority Groups; Modeling; Obesity; Occupations; Oregon; Outcome; Parents; Phase; Policies; Population; Pregnancy Rate; Pregnancy in Adolescence; Principal Investigator; Process; Professional counselor; Public Health; Randomized Controlled Trials; Readiness; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Role; Sampling; Schools; Secondary Schools; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Stress; Students; System; Technology; Testing; Training; Translational Research; United States; United States Dept. of Health and Human Services; Universities; Youth; career; college; design; digital; ethnic minority population; experience; health disparity; high school; implementation science; improved; innovation; interest; learning strategy; meetings; member; programs; prototype; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; research and development; response; role model; satisfaction; skills; social; social health determinants; student participation; success; teacher; teenage mother; tool; university student; usability; web app

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed project will develop ESCALA (Escuela y Carrera Latina/Latino School and Career), a mobile web app designed to increase the college and lowest educational attainment in the United States. Because educational attainment is a major social determinant of health, it is not surprising that Latinos also experience poor health outcomes compared to whites, especially in the areas of obesity, depression, diabetes, and teen pregnancy. Although Latino parents recognize education as vital to their children's future, Latino adolescents perceive postsecondary education as largely unattainable due to a lack of viable role models for students, parents' unfamiliarity with college preparation processes, limited English skills, cultural differences between students and teachers, and having to financially support their family, especially in the case of Latina teenage mothers. In response to these identified barriers, ESCALA proposes to impact Latino students' college and career preparedness by intervening with students, parents, and school staff. The ESCALA app will include (a) dual language (Spanish/English), culturally relevant training videos that clarify the college prep process, (b) action plans for accomplishing concrete goals, and (c) decision‐making tools with which to facilitate informed choices about students' post‐secondary education aims. To ensure that Latino families have ready access to these materials, we will make the intervention available through mobile (i.e., smartphone) technology, which has rapidly established itself as an important communication tool among Latinos. Phase I will focus on development of a scaled‐down prototype of ESCALA that can be "scaled out" in Phase II. Development will occur with focus groups, consultant input, and usability testing. We will conduct an initial evaluation with a sample of 40 Latino students and their parents to determine the social validity, perceived efficacy, behavioral intention to use the learned strategies, and satisfaction with the program's tone and content. In Phase II, we will complete the parent and student components of ESCALA and add the module for school personnel. We will then evaluate the entire program's efficacy in a large randomized controlled trial. The project's Principal Investigators and development and research personnel are fluent Spanish speakers with familial ties to Mexican, Central American, and Caribbean cultures. Project team members have years of experience in translational research involving media and Internet technologies. The project benefits from partnership with Dr. Charles Martinez from the Center for Equity Promotion at the University of Oregon, and Dr. Matt Coleman from the Educational Policy Improvement Center and Springfield Public Schools, serving a large Latino student population. The necessary institutional support, equipment and physical resources are available to develop and disseminate the program. IRIS Ed has a history of completing Phase I and Phase II SBIR projects, and prides itself on its commitment to successfully commercializing training interventions.

 描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的项目将开发ESCALA（Escuela y Carrera Latina/Latino School and Career），这是一个移动的网络应用程序，旨在提高美国的大学和最低教育水平。因为教育程度是一个主要的社会 作为健康的决定因素，与白人相比，拉丁美洲人的健康状况也很差，尤其是在肥胖、抑郁、糖尿病和青少年怀孕方面。虽然拉丁裔父母认识到教育对孩子的未来至关重要，但拉丁裔青少年认为中学后教育在很大程度上是无法实现的，因为缺乏学生的可行榜样，父母不熟悉大学准备过程，英语技能有限，学生和教师之间的文化差异，以及必须在经济上支持他们的家庭，特别是在拉丁裔少女母亲的情况下。针对这些确定的障碍，ESCALA建议通过干预学生，家长和学校工作人员来影响拉丁美洲学生的大学和职业准备。ESCALA应用程序将包括（a）双语（西班牙语/英语）、与文化相关的培训视频，以澄清大学预科过程，（B）实现具体目标的行动计划，以及（c）决策工具，用于促进对学生中学后教育目标的明智选择。为了确保拉丁裔家庭能够随时获得这些材料，我们将通过移动的提供干预措施（即，智能手机）技术，它已迅速成为拉丁美洲人的重要通信工具。 第一阶段将专注于开发ESCALA的缩小原型，该原型可以在第二阶段“扩展”。开发将与焦点小组、顾问输入和可用性测试一起进行。我们将进行一个初步的评估与40名拉丁裔学生和他们的父母的样本，以确定社会有效性，感知效能，行为意图使用学到的策略，并与程序的语气和内容的满意度。在第二阶段，我们将完成ESCALA的家长和学生部分，并增加学校人员模块。然后，我们将在一项大型随机对照试验中评估整个项目的有效性。 该项目的主要研究人员和开发和研究人员都能讲流利的西班牙语，并与墨西哥，中美洲和加勒比文化有着密切的联系。项目团队成员在涉及媒体和互联网技术的转化研究方面拥有多年的经验。该项目得益于与俄勒冈州大学平等促进中心的查尔斯·马丁内斯博士和教育政策改进中心和斯普林菲尔德公立学校的马特·科尔曼博士的合作，为大量拉丁裔学生提供服务。为制定和传播该方案提供了必要的机构支持、设备和物质资源。IRIS艾德有着完成SBIR项目第一阶段和第二阶段的历史，并以其成功地将培训干预商业化的承诺而自豪。