MyStudentBody-Community College: A Health Website for Students

描述（由申请人提供）：社区学院为数百万美国人提供了一种负担得起的方式来实现他们的教育目标。目前，有1150万学生，占美国本科生总数的46%，就读于社区学院。许多学生来自低社会经济背景，许多人在上大学时工作，这两者都导致了更具挑战性的大学经历。事实上，许多社区大学的学生在学业上确实很挣扎，很大一部分人没有完成他们的学习计划。一个特别令人关注的领域是社区大学生的健康。除了对一般健康的担忧外，许多学生酗酒，吸烟率特别高，吸食大麻、可卡因和安非他明。对学生的后果包括增加疾病风险以及更困难的学习经历。可以说，这个大学生群体最需要的是健康和酒精和其他药物（AOD）预防规划。然而，社区大学生在某种意义上是一个隐形群体。在文献中，这些问题几乎被忽视;因此，学生的健康需求没有得到讨论，实际上也没有得到满足。社区学院的学生很少得到卫生资源。在某种程度上，社区学院无法提供广泛的资源。但除此之外，似乎没有任何商业项目是面向社区大学生的。需要一个具有成本效益的，全面的健康和AOD预防计划。它应该专门针对社区大学的人口，适合社区大学学生的具体需求，并作为社区资源的链接。我们建议为社区大学生开发一个互动的在线健康干预，重点是健康和AOD预防。MyStudentBody-Community College将使用Web2.0技术为学生提供文章、技能课程、评估、工具、课程和社区资源链接。它将考虑到学生提供的心理社会，行为和人口统计信息，根据学生的个人需求量身定制。我们对可用的大学健康网站的审查表明，没有网站是为社区大学生量身定制的，因此它将代表社区大学生医疗保健选择的重大进步。该计划的目标是：提高管理压力的自我效能;增加对AOD的了解;增加幸福感，减少酒精和药物的使用。内容和干预模式将通过与社区学院卫生工作者，社区学院学生和机构决策者协商制定。机构决策者也将参与制定实施计划。我们将使用访谈来确定信息的关键领域。我们将通过对示范项目的审查，就第一阶段概念的可行性征求学生、社区学院卫生工作人员和机构决策者的反馈意见。如果该计划成功，它将通过改善社区大学生的健康状况，对公共卫生产生重大影响。 公共卫生相关性：目前，有1150万学生，占美国本科生总数的46%，就读于社区学院。这所大学的人口，可以说，在健康和AOD预防规划的最大需求;然而，社区大学的学生提供很少，如果有的话，健康资源。我们建议开发一个互动的在线健康和AOD预防网站，如果成功，将通过改善社区大学生的健康状况对公共卫生产生重大影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Community colleges provide an affordable way for millions of Americans to achieve their educational goals. Currently, 11.5 million students, 46% of all US undergraduates, are enrolled at community colleges. Many students are from low socioeconomic backgrounds and many work while attending college, both of which lead to a more challenging college experience. Indeed, many community college students do struggle academically, and a large proportion do not finish their program of study. An area of particular concern is community college students' health. As well as concerns about general health, many students binge drink, and there are particularly high rates of smoking, and use of marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines. Consequences for students include increased disease risk as well as an even more difficult learning experience. Arguably, this college population is in the greatest need of wellness and alcohol and other drug (AOD) prevention programming. However, community college students are, in a sense, an invisible population. They are virtually ignored in the literature; as such, students' health needs are not discussed, and indeed, are not met. Community college students are offered very few, if any, health resources. In part, community colleges cannot afford to provide extensive resources. But additionally, no commercial programs appear to be geared towards community college students. A cost effective, comprehensive wellness, and AOD prevention program is needed. It should specifically address the community college population, be tailored to specific needs of community college students, and serve as a link to community resources. We propose to develop an interactive, online health intervention for community college students focusing on wellness and AOD prevention. MyStudentBody-Community College will use Web 2.0 technology to offer students articles, skill- based courses, assessments, tools, courses, and links to community resources. It will be tailored to the individual needs of students by taking into account psychosocial, behavioral and demographic information provided by the student. Our review of available college health websites suggests that no site is tailored to community college students and it will thus represent a significant advance in healthcare options for community college students. The goals for the program are to: increase self-efficacy for managing stress; increase knowledge about AOD; increase wellbeing, and decrease alcohol and drug use. The content and intervention model will be developed through consultation with community college health staff, community college students, and institutional decision makers. Institutional decision makers will also be involved in developing implementation plans. We will use interviews to determine key domains of information. We will seek feedback from students, community college health staff, and institutional decision makers on the feasibility of the Phase I concept through a review of a demonstration program. If the program is successful, it will have a significant public health impact by improving the health of community college students. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Currently, 11.5 million students, 46 percent of all US undergraduates, are enrolled at community colleges. This college population is, arguably, in the greatest need of wellness and AOD prevention programming; however, community college students are offered very few, if any, health resources. We propose to develop an interactive, online wellness and AOD prevention website, which, if successful, will have a significant public health impact by improving the health of community college students.