Collaborative Research Infrastructure to Transform School Health

说明(由申请者提供)：学校环境提供了重要的机会来影响儿童的健康，并解决在获得健康促进环境方面的一些不平等现象，这些环境导致儿童健康方面的差异。然而，基于证据的学校卫生倡议清单有限，在学校环境中开展研究存在许多障碍。一般来说，公立学校没有资源进行必要的研究，以确定学校健康倡议是否真正有效，大学研究人员可能没有完全理解学生健康的“现实世界”决定因素。这项倡议的目标是改变公立学校进行健康科学研究的方式。具体地说，该项目将在西雅图公立学校(SPS)和华盛顿大学(UW)之间建立一个可持续的长期合作研究基础设施。目前，SPS负责营养、体力活动、健康教育和健康服务的健康负责人在不同的部门工作，并使用独立的数据系统。卫生领导的工作与区的研究、评价和评估股的工作的结合也很少。在华盛顿大学，情况类似；研究人员在SPS进行了许多由联邦政府支持的与健康相关的研究，但这些倡议在华盛顿大学的许多学校和部门之间并不协调。该项目将使用以社区为基础的参与式研究方法，在来自华盛顿大学、SPS、当地慈善组织和社区倡导者的跨学科研究人员之间形成互惠互利的关系。第一个目标是通过培养协作技能和能力来进行协调和全面的学校卫生研究，从而改变SPS和UW的研究环境。这将通过吸引和引导利益攸关方、建立促进信任的关系以及为持续行动制定路线图来实现。第二个目标是建立一个可持续的健康和健康研究基础设施，其中将包括1)一个持续的健康研究领导团队，成员包括SPS和UW两个部门和学科的成员，以及2)一个数据团队，将建立使用该地区的数据进行协作研究的方法。第三个目标将是制定和传播健康和健康研究行动指南。该行动指南将被协作的特殊利益研究团队用来制定研究问题和制定SPS-UW研究建议。该项目的规划是华盛顿大学研究人员和SPS工作人员的共同努力；该项目旨在提供学校卫生领导人支持其工作所需的研究和证据。 公共卫生相关性：学校是影响儿童和青年健康的重要环境。公立学校有各种各样的健康和健身相关倡议，但学校和研究人员缺乏衡量其影响的系统。该项目将建立一个可持续的、长期的合作研究结构，可以作为全国学术研究人员和学校的典范。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): School settings provide important opportunities to influence the health of children and to address some of the inequalities in access to health promoting environments that lead to disparities in children's health. However, the list of evidence-based school health initiatives is limited, and there are many barriers to conducting research in school settings. In general, public schools do not have the resources to conduct the kind of research that is necessary to determine if school health initiatives are truly effective, and university researchers may not fully understand the "real world" determinants of student health. The goal of this initiative is to transform the way that health science research is conducted in public schools. Specifically, the project will build a sustainable, long term collaborative research infrastructure between the Seattle Public Schools (SPS) and the University of Washington (UW). Currently, SPS health leaders for nutrition, physical activity, health education and health services work in separate departments and use independent data systems. There is also minimal integration of the work of health leaders with the work of the district's Research Evaluation and Assessment unit. At the UW, the situation is similar; researchers conduct a number of federally supported health-related studies in SPS, but these initiatives are not coordinated across the UW's many schools and departments. This project will use a community-based participatory research approach to form mutually beneficial relationships between interdisciplinary researchers from UW, SPS, local philanthropic organizations, and community advocates. The first aim is to transform the research environments at SPS and UW by building collaborative skills and competencies for conducting coordinated and comprehensive school health research. This will be achieved by engaging and orienting stakeholders, building relationships that foster trust, and establishing a roadmap for ongoing action. The second aim is to build a sustainable health and wellness research infrastructure that will include 1) an ongoing Health Research Leadership Team with members across departments and disciplines at both SPS and UW, and 2) a Data Team that will establish methods for using the district's data for collaborative research. The third aim will be to develop and disseminate an action guide for health and wellness research. The action guide will be used by collaborative special interest research teams to formulate research questions and develop SPS-UW research proposals. The planning for this project was a joint effort between UW researchers and SPS staff; the project is designed to provide the kinds of research and evidence that school health leaders need to support their work. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Schools are an important setting to influence the health of children and youth. A wide variety of health and fitness-related initiatives are in place at public schools, yet schools and researchers lack the systems to measure their impact. This project will build a sustainable, long term collaborative research structure that can be used as a model by academic researchers and schools across the country.