Urban Youth Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Lead Poisoning.
Environmental health literacy (EHL) is a promising and evolving field of research that could benefit from youth engagement. Yet studies focused on youths' environmental health awareness and concerns are limited. For example, although lead exposure remains a threat to youth development in urban envir...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Community Health Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 1255 - 1267 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=125872764&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 125872764 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00945145 JCH jtl: Journal of Community Health issn: 00945145 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2017 vid: 42 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 125872764 10.1007/s10900-017-0378-8 ppf: 1255 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 692KB tig: atl: Urban Youth Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Lead Poisoning. aug: au: Bogar, Sandra Szabo, Aniko Woodruff, Shane Johnson, Sheri affil: Institute for Health & Equity , Medical College of Wisconsin , 8701 Watertown Plank Road Milwaukee 53226-0509 USA Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health & Equity , Medical College of Wisconsin , Milwaukee USA Running Rebels Community Organization , Milwaukee USA Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children, Pediatrics , Medical College of Wisconsin , Milwaukee USA su: Wisconsin Action research Content analysis Focus groups Metropolitan areas Health literacy Adolescence Confidence intervals Lead poisoning Multivariate analysis Questionnaires Regression analysis Statistical sampling Scale analysis (Psychology) Statistics Thematic analysis Descriptive statistics One-way analysis of variance sug: subj: Action research Content analysis Focus groups Metropolitan areas Health literacy Adolescence Wisconsin Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling Confidence intervals Lead poisoning Multivariate analysis Questionnaires Regression analysis Statistical sampling Scale analysis (Psychology) Statistics Thematic analysis Descriptive statistics One-way analysis of variance keyword: CBPR Environmental health literacy Lead Poisoning Youth CBPR Environmental health literacy Lead Poisoning Youth ab: Environmental health literacy (EHL) is a promising and evolving field of research that could benefit from youth engagement. Yet studies focused on youths' environmental health awareness and concerns are limited. For example, although lead exposure remains a threat to youth development in urban environments, no published studies have measured urban youth's knowledge of lead poisoning. A CBPR partnership established a youth advisory council (YAC) who helped to design, interpret and disseminate a mixed methods study exploring environmental health perceptions among urban youths ages 10-18. Surveys assessed awareness, attitudes, and knowledge regarding lead poisoning and five environmental health issues determined by the YAC. Focus group questions further contextualized youths' lead knowledge and understanding of youths' environmental health concerns. A majority of youth could identify specific sources of lead exposure but had minimal knowledge of prevention strategies, and focus group data revealed misinformation regarding lead sources and consequences. Survey and focus group respondents' level of awareness and concern regarding YAC-selected EH issues was high in comparison to lead poisoning. In particular, job opportunities and police brutality were endorsed as both neighborhood concerns and priorities. Awareness and knowledge of environmental health issues among urban youth have not been well described. These findings reinforce the importance of addressing problems of local relevance. Moving forward, lead poisoning prevention education for youth and youth EHL partnerships may benefit from incorporating an ecological approach wherein connections to the social and economic context are made explicit. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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