Improving Health and Science Literacy in a Latino Community

描述(由申请者提供)：提高科学素养和健康知识对于增进不同社区的整体健康、公众对研究重要性的理解和社区参与研究至关重要。非英语社区最容易受到科学和健康识字率低的影响，而且大多数解决科学素养问题的方案都不是为西班牙语受众量身定做的。认识到有必要提高拉丁裔社区的科学素养，在拉丁裔公共广播电台和布朗大学/妇幼医院之间建立了学术-社区伙伴关系。我们建议开发一个对文化敏感的计划，以增加西班牙语广播听众的科学素养计划。在征求社区对感兴趣的具体健康主题的意见后，课程将通过对已确定的健康主题的讨论，重点放在科学素养上。这项计划旨在增加社区对临床研究和相关健康问题的了解。评估该计划的影响，包括科学素养和健康知识，将使我们了解使用广播媒体对讲西班牙语的观众是否有效。通过这种学术和社区的伙伴关系，我们计划开发、提供和评估一个为期10周的科学素养课程。该节目名为ESCUCHE(评估西班牙广播界对临床研究和健康主题的理解)，将包括讲西班牙语的电台听众和专家教师之间的互动课程。收听过去节目的机会将通过该网站和向电台提出请求而提供。该项目的总体目标是提高拉美裔社区的科学和健康素养。该项目的具体目标包括：(1)制定一项面向西班牙语电台听众的科学素养计划；(2)在一项包括西班牙语电台听众在内的试点研究中开发和评估工具，以衡量科学素养的提高；(3)开发工具，评估计划参与者的健康知识增长情况；以及(4)改进该计划，并为更多讲西班牙语的听众提供评估工具。我们假设，向讲西班牙语的广播听众提供西班牙语科学与健康课程将提高听众的科学素养和健康知识。该方案对拉丁裔社区和学术界有许多潜在的好处，包括：提高科学素养和健康知识，这可转化为更好的医疗保健，增加获得科学信息的机会，增加对科学和健康相关专业的兴趣，增加科学界和非科学界之间的互动，以改进社区的研究方法，以及增加对研究的参与。这项研究有可能通过由值得信赖的社区医生提供的健康主题来提高公众对临床研究和科学方法的理解。该计划中使用的方法有可能为未来的项目提供信息，并加强科学家、社区成员和NIH之间的合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Improving science literacy and health knowledge is essential to enhancing the overall health of diverse communities, public understanding of the importance of research and community participation in research. Non-English speaking communities are the most vulnerable to low rates of science and health literacy and most programs addressing science literacy issues are not tailored to the Spanish-speaking audience. Identifying the need to improve science literacy in the Latino community, an academic- community partnership has been established between Latino Public Radio and Brown University/ Women & Infants Hospital. We propose to develop a culturally sensitive program to increase science literacy program in a Spanish-speaking radio audience. After seeking community input about the specific health topics of interest, the curriculum will be developed to focus on science literacy through the discussion of the identified health topics. This program is geared towards increasing the community's understanding of clinical research and relevant health issues. Evaluating the impact of the program, including both science literacy and health knowledge, will allow us to understand whether or not using a radio medium is effective for a Spanish-speaking audience. Through this academic-community partnership, we plan to develop, deliver and evaluate a 10-week science literacy curriculum. The program, ESCUCHE (Evaluating the Spanish radio Community's Understanding of Clinical research and Health topics), will involve interactive sessions between the Spanish-speaking radio audience and expert teachers. The opportunity to listen to past programs will be made available through the website and by request to the radio station. The overall goal of this project is to increase science and health literacy in the Latino community. The specific aims of the project include: (1) Developing a science literacy program to be delivered to a Spanish-radio audience; (2) Developing and evaluating tools to measure the increase in science literacy in a pilot study including Spanish-radio listeners; (3) Developing tools to evaluate increases in health knowledge in the program participants: and, (4) Refining the program and evaluation tools for a larger Spanish-speaking audience. We hypothesize that delivering a science and health curriculum in Spanish to a Spanish-speaking radio audience will increase science literacy and health knowledge among listeners. This program has many potential benefits for the Latino community and the academic community including: increasing science literacy and health knowledge which may translate into better health care, increasing access to science information, increasing interest in science and health related professions, increasing the interaction between the scientific and lay communities to improve research methods in the community, and increasing participation in research. This study has the potential to improve public understanding of clinical research and scientific methods through health topics delivered by a trusted community-based physician. The approach used in this program has the potential to inform future projects and enhance collaboration among scientists, community members and the NIH.