San Francisco Health Investigators (SF HI)

 描述(由申请者提供)：旧金山健康调查员(SF HI)由加州大学旧金山分校的科学与健康教育伙伴关系开发和领导，将使用基于社区的参与式研究模式为高中生提供真实的研究体验，大多数学生的背景在科学界代表性不足。SF HI将：1)建立一个高中生研究人员社区，他们将在他们的社区中对健康问题进行研究，研究青少年如何回应健康信息，根据这项研究创建新的健康信息，并研究他们开发的材料的更广泛影响；2)与教育研究人员合作，研究SF HI对高中生参与者的影响以及材料对更广泛社区的影响；3)传播那些被证明具有最大影响的材料；以及4)在同行评议的期刊和其他论坛上发表关于公众对健康问题的理解和认识的结果，以告知和促进公共卫生领域。SF HI模式旨在利用学生的文化和技术知识以及他们的社会资本，扮演学生研究人员的角色，研究他们对社区当前健康问题的认识、知识和态度。它将产生广泛的影响。在该项目的整个过程中，100名城市公立高中生将沉浸在有可能直接造福于他们所在社区健康的研究项目中。这些学生 研究人员将根据社会、文化和社区知识以及他们的研究结果设计健康信息。他们将对8500多名社区成员--他们的同龄人、邻居和公共集会的参与者--进行集体调查，以评估这些材料的有效性。学生编写的材料将通过网络、高中和大学健康中心、NIH SEPA社区和其他网络广泛分发-因此，这些材料有可能在项目的整个生命周期内接触到150多万青少年和年轻人。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): San Francisco Health Investigators (SF HI), developed and led by the Science & Health Education Partnership at UC San Francisco, will use a community-based participatory research model to provide authentic research experiences for high school students, the majority from backgrounds underrepresented in the sciences. SF HI will: 1) develop a community of high school Student Researchers who will conduct research into health issues in their communities, study how adolescents respond to health messages, create new health messages informed by this research, and study the broader impacts of the materials they develop; 2) partner with educational researchers to research the effects of SF HI on the high school student participants and the impact of the materials on the broader community; 3) disseminate those materials shown to have the greatest impact nationally; and 4) publish results on the public understanding and awareness of health issues in peer-reviewed journals and other forums to inform and advance the field of public health. The SF HI model is designed to leverage students' cultural and technological knowledge and their social capital in the role of Student Researchers as they study the awareness, knowledge and attitudes about current health issues in their communities. It will have a broad range of impacts. Over the course of the project, 100 urban public high school students will be immersed in research projects that have the potential to directly benefit the health of their communities. These Student Researchers will design health messages informed by the social, cultural, and community knowledge and by their research results. They will collectively survey more than 8,500 community members - their peers, neighbors, and attendees at public gatherings to assess the effectiveness of these materials. Student-developed materials will be distributed broadly via the web, high school and college wellness centers, the NIH SEPA community, and other networks - thus these materials have the potential to reach over 1.5 million adolescents and young adults over the life of the project.