为年轻的成年非洲裔美国人提供外展服务,这些人有中风风险因素
Health literacy research and practice
|March 11, 2024
概括
年轻的成年非洲裔美国人患中风风险较高,对可修改的风险因素的认识有限. 卫生教育应该使用医疗当局的积极,长期信息来改善对中风风险的理解.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 卫生沟通健康沟通
- 预防中风 预防中风
背景情况:
- 年轻的成年非洲裔美国人 (18-35岁) 与白人相比,中风风险增加了两倍多.
- 对此群体的中风风险教育和文化相关材料存在很大的差距.
- 关于开发和测试适合年轻非裔美国人了解中风风险因素的健康素养材料的研究有限.
研究的目的:
- 确定创建和分发关于中风风险意识的简单语言健康信息的关键因素.
- 为年轻的非裔美国成年人制定有效的沟通策略,以指导他们制定关于中风风险的有效沟通策略.
- 为高风险人群提供有针对性的健康教育,以满足这一需求.
主要方法:
- 一项在线调查对413名18岁及以上的非洲裔美国人进行了调查.
- 统计分析包括描述性统计,单向ANOVA和两步集群分析,以评估中风风险意识和信息搜索行为.
- 开放式问题探讨了参与者对中风风险的感知原因,包括可修改和不可修改的因素.
主要成果:
- 感知中风风险非常低/低的参与者表现出明显较低的整体中风风险因素意识.
- 家庭病史被认为是低风险和高风险组的关键风险因素.
- 很大一部分年轻的参与者将他们认为的低风险归因于他们的年龄,忽视了其他因素.
- 最大的群体将医疗来源确定为最值得信赖的健康信息,更喜欢积极的,长期的和信息化的信息.
结论:
- 年轻的成年非洲裔美国人对可修改的中风风险因素的理解有限.
- 卫生教育材料应强调积极的,长期的结果,并由医疗当局提供.
- 信息设计应侧重于清晰的信息内容,因为年龄和性别似乎不需要不同的模式.
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