Teaching to Learn: WV-HSTA Students Take CBPR to Their Community

描述(由申请人提供)：西弗吉尼亚大学罗伯特·C·伯德健康科学中心的健康科学与技术学院(HSTA)提交了这份建议书，以基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)为格式，重点关注代谢综合征和预防，将生物医学研究人员和高中教师聚集在一起，向医疗服务不足社区的9-12年级学生传播科学教育。其目标是创造一种新的设计，在难以接触到服务不足的阿巴拉契亚地区人口中提高健康素养和生物医学科学教育。CBPR的关键组成部分将嵌入到适合人群和年龄的背景下，以新陈代谢综合征为医学重点的探究式体验，并纳入以营养和锻炼为中心的生活方式干预。学生和教师将在涉及生活方式干预的代谢综合征和预防研究项目中与科学家合作，在这些项目中，学生将他们的新知识和理解传播给他们的家庭和医疗服务不足的社区。将鼓励未被充分代表的学生投身生物医学领域。在教育和社区参与方面发挥带头作用的学生将有助于消除研究人员、临床医生和来自代表性不足人群的患者之间的障碍，以及研究人员与潜在的代表性不足的CBPR参与者之间的障碍。这项建议将侧重于以下具体目标：具体目标1：为每年12名教师提供暑期教师专业发展，同时向参加暑期科学丰富体验的160名11年级学生介绍CBPR机会。具体目标2：每年向160名在生物医学实验室与科学家就代谢综合征的不同方面开展合作的11年级人数不足的学生提供暑期科学补习课程，内容是“边做边学”。具体目标3：在全州的HSTA俱乐部为160名11年级学生和100名代表不足的9-12年级学生/年提供学年科学充实。拟议项目的成果是将过去赠款在基线数据收集方面的成功扩展到通过干预措施收集数据，并了解一个新的更广泛的主题--代谢综合征。这项建议的影响是使卫生信息和预防战略易于被服务不足的人群理解和感兴趣，并通过新陈代谢综合征及其预防的教育改善西弗吉尼亚州人的健康。 公共卫生相关性(由申请人提供)：研究表明，农村和少数民族人口获得医疗保健的机会较少，并且经历了比其他人更差的潜在可预防的健康后果；在阿巴拉契亚农村，获得医疗保健的差距与慢性病的高流行率和构成Met S的风险因素等条件平行。该项目提供了一个很好的机会，有效地教育民众关于Met S的知识，并刺激针对营养、体力活动和生活方式的行为变化。 在青少年中以一种令人兴奋的方式。通过这项计划，许多儿童将有机会在现在或将来获得保护，免受大都会医院-S所包括的一系列风险因素的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA) of West Virginia University Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center submits this proposal with the novel approach of using Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) focused on metabolic syndrome and prevention as the format, to bring together biomedical researchers and high school teachers to disseminate science education to 9th-12th grade students from medically underserved communities. The objective is to create a novel design to improve health literacy and biomedical science education in hard to reach under-served Appalachian populations. Critical components of CBPR will be embedded in a population-appropriate and age-appropriate context, with inquiry based experiences using metabolic syndrome as the medical focus and incorporating life-style interventions centered on nutrition and exercise. Students and teachers will partner with scientists in metabolic syndrome and prevention research projects involving life-style interventions, in which STUDENTS transmit their new knowledge and understanding to their families and to medically underserved communities. Underrepresented students will be encouraged to pursue careers in biomedical fields. Students leading in the education and community involvement will aid in dismantling barriers between researchers, clinicians, and patients from under-represented populations; and between researchers and potential under-represented participants in CBPR. This proposal will focus on the following specific aims: Specific Aim 1: To provide summer teacher professional development to 12 teachers/year while introducing CBPR opportunities to 160 11th grade students participating in a summer science enrichment experience. Specific Aim 2: To provide summer science enrichment to 160 11th grade under-represented students a year in "learning by doing" as they engage in biomedical labs working with scientists on different aspects of the metabolic syndrome. Specific Aim 3: To provide academic year science enrichment to 160 11th graders and 100 additional under-represented 9th -12th grade students/year in HSTA clubs across the state. The outcomes of the proposed project are to expand on the past grant's success of base-line data gathering to data gathering with interventions, and to understand a new broader topic-metabolic syndrome. The impact of this proposal is to make health information and prevention strategies easily understandable and interesting to under-served populations, and to improve the health of West Virginians through education on metabolic syndrome and its prevention. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by applicant): Research has demonstrated that rural and minority populations have less access to healthcare and experience poorer potentially preventable health outcomes than others; in rural Appalachia, the disparity of access to health is paralleled by the high prevalence of chronic diseases and conditions such as the risk factors that make up Met S. This project offers a great opportunity to effectively educate the population on Met S, and stimulate behavioral changes that address nutrition, physical activity, and lifestyle in an exciting way among adolescents. Through this program, many children will have a chance to be protected from developing the cluster of risk factors included in Met-S now or later.