Measuring Health, Media, Computer & Digital Literacy Among Senegalese Youth

描述(由申请人提供)：塞内加尔是一个在过去十年中在信息和通信技术(ICT)方面进行了大量投资的国家，使公民能够使用全球信息系统。今天，发展中世界的健康促进往往涉及以数字为基础的健康信息传播；然而，健康素养的衡量标准是测试接受者处理和使用这些传播信息的程度。青年目前在塞内加尔人口中占很大比例：28%的人口年龄在10至19岁之间。随着青少年身体、认知和社会情感的发展，从童年到成年的过渡对健康产生了积极和消极的影响，可能会带来个人、社会和金钱上的代价。测试青年受众如何使用基于互联网的健康信息，以及增加的健康素养和电子健康素养如何影响感兴趣的结果，这些都是我们FIRCA-BSS提案所关注的焦点问题。在拟议的研究中，我们将父母R01赠款(1-R01 HD059756-01)在青少年健康素养方面的专业知识带给塞内加尔生殖健康培训和研究区域中心(CEFOREP)的塞内加尔青年生殖健康研究人员和Riseau African ain de L‘Education for la Santis(RAES)。我们将从大约5000名高中生和失学青年中抽取2400名青年作为样本，他们将同时参加CEFOREP的One World UK学习生活计划。这些青年将从塞内加尔三个地区的7所中学和3个非正式学习环境中抽取，分别代表城市、城市周边和农村环境，并作为班级的次级样本。参与者将匿名试行一项调查，并回答试行调查措施，其中包括媒体消费；信息和通信技术的使用和使用；基本计算机、互联网和移动技术素养；实用健康素养水平；电子健康素养；媒体素养；知识和态度。我们的目标是调整塞内加尔青年以前使用的措施以及发达国家使用的措施，并制定新的措施，以了解发展中世界的青年如何获取、处理和使用卫生信息。然后，我们制定的标准化措施可以用来评估和评价塞内加尔以及可能正在经历类似通信技术发展水平的其他国家为消除健康差距所作的努力。 公共卫生相关性：这项研究的目标是建立一套有效和可靠的衡量标准，可用作评估塞内加尔14-21岁在校和失学青年的健康素养、电子健康素养、媒体和计算机素养以及使用和使用计算机和互联网的标准。我们将与塞内加尔研究人员合作。这将是朝着扩大青年对目前在非洲和全世界范围和广度不断增加的新的健康传播形式的研究迈出的重要一步。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Senegal is a country that has made substantial investments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) over the past ten years, allowing citizens access to global information systems. Today, health promotion in the developing world often involves digitally-based dissemination of health messages; however, health literacy scales to test the degree to which recipients process and use the information from these communications are lacking. Youth comprise a large component of the Senegalese population at present: 28% of the population is between 10-19 years of age. The transition from childhood to adulthood as teens develop physically, cognitively, and socio-emotionally has positive and negative impacts on health that can entail personal, social and monetary costs. Testing how youth audiences use Internet-based health information and how increased health literacy and e-health literacy impact outcomes of interest serve as the focal issues of interest underlying our FIRCA-BSS proposal. In the proposed study we bring expertise from the parent R01 grant (1-R01 HD059756-01) on adolescent health literacy to partner with Senegalese youth reproductive health researchers in the Regional Center for Training and Research in Reproductive Health (CEFOREP) and Riseau Africain de l'Education pour la Santis (RAES). We will draw a sample of 2,400 youth from approximately 5,000 high school students and out-of-school youth who will be concurrently participating with CEFOREP on the One World UK Learning about Living program. These youth will be drawn from 7 secondary schools and 3 informal learning settings in three regions of Senegal representing urban, peri- urban and rural settings and drawn as a subsample of classes. Participants will pilot a survey anonymously and answer pilot survey measures that include Media Consumption; ICT Use and Access; Basic Computer, Internet and Mobile Technology Literacy; Functional Health Literacy Levels; E-Health Literacy; Media Literacy; Knowledge; and Attitudes. Our goal is to adapt measures previously used among Senegalese youth, as well as measures used in the developed world, and create new measures to understand how youth in the developing world access, process, and use health information. The standardized measures we develop can then be used to assess and evaluate efforts to combat health disparities in Senegal and potentially other countries experiencing similar levels of communications technology development. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The goal of this study is to create a valid and reliable set of measures that can be used as scales for assessing health literacy, e-health literacy, media and computer literacy, and use of and access to computers and the Internet among in- and out-of-school youth aged 14-21 in Senegal. We will work collaboratively with Senegalese researchers. This will be a significant step toward expanding research among youth about new forms of health communication currently increasing in scope and breadth in Africa and worldwide.