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Preliminary Evaluation of a Citizen Scientist Educational Curriculum Aimed at Engaging Black Men in Lung Cancer Early Detection Screening

This article describes an educational program to engage African American men as citizen scientists (CSs) and future research partners in a lung cancer screening project. We provide an overview of the curriculum used, the structure and format of the educational sessions, and associated educational ou...

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Autores principales: Matthews, Alicia K., Murray, Marcus, Ben Levi, Josef, Odell, David, Jeremiah, Rohan, Moore, LeAndre, Oyaluade, Damilola, Chappel, Alexis, Burke, Larisa, Watson, Karriem
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9201322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35694882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15579883221099417
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author Matthews, Alicia K.
Murray, Marcus
Ben Levi, Josef
Odell, David
Jeremiah, Rohan
Moore, LeAndre
Oyaluade, Damilola
Chappel, Alexis
Burke, Larisa
Watson, Karriem
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Murray, Marcus
Ben Levi, Josef
Odell, David
Jeremiah, Rohan
Moore, LeAndre
Oyaluade, Damilola
Chappel, Alexis
Burke, Larisa
Watson, Karriem
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description This article describes an educational program to engage African American men as citizen scientists (CSs) and future research partners in a lung cancer screening project. We provide an overview of the curriculum used, the structure and format of the educational sessions, and associated educational outcomes. Furthermore, we describe lessons learned in the engagement of African American men as CS in community-based lung-health equity research. The CS educational program included five group-based sessions delivered through zoom. The educational curriculum was adapted from the University of Florida Citizen Scientist program and tailored to address lung health and the contextual experiences of African American men. Each session lasted 90 minutes. Pre- and post-test measures were collected to examine changes in knowledge, comfort, health literacy, research interests, and medical mistrust. Eight African American men completed the CS educational program. Attendance rates were high for each session (100%). Seven participants completed additional human subject research certification. Improvements were observed from pre- to post-test in participants’ level of knowledge, comfort, and health literacy but not medical mistrust. CS reported the most interest in participating in research aimed to identify important community strengths and problems. Study findings suggest that it was feasible to deliver an online citizen scientist educational program designed to prepare participants to serve as partners in a lung cancer screening intervention for African American men. Results suggest the educational program has the potential to improve key outcomes including completion of regulatory training and increased research-related knowledge, comfort, and health literacy.
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spelling pubmed-92013222022-06-17 Preliminary Evaluation of a Citizen Scientist Educational Curriculum Aimed at Engaging Black Men in Lung Cancer Early Detection Screening Matthews, Alicia K. Murray, Marcus Ben Levi, Josef Odell, David Jeremiah, Rohan Moore, LeAndre Oyaluade, Damilola Chappel, Alexis Burke, Larisa Watson, Karriem Am J Mens Health Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Disparity Issues This article describes an educational program to engage African American men as citizen scientists (CSs) and future research partners in a lung cancer screening project. We provide an overview of the curriculum used, the structure and format of the educational sessions, and associated educational outcomes. Furthermore, we describe lessons learned in the engagement of African American men as CS in community-based lung-health equity research. The CS educational program included five group-based sessions delivered through zoom. The educational curriculum was adapted from the University of Florida Citizen Scientist program and tailored to address lung health and the contextual experiences of African American men. Each session lasted 90 minutes. Pre- and post-test measures were collected to examine changes in knowledge, comfort, health literacy, research interests, and medical mistrust. Eight African American men completed the CS educational program. Attendance rates were high for each session (100%). Seven participants completed additional human subject research certification. Improvements were observed from pre- to post-test in participants’ level of knowledge, comfort, and health literacy but not medical mistrust. CS reported the most interest in participating in research aimed to identify important community strengths and problems. Study findings suggest that it was feasible to deliver an online citizen scientist educational program designed to prepare participants to serve as partners in a lung cancer screening intervention for African American men. Results suggest the educational program has the potential to improve key outcomes including completion of regulatory training and increased research-related knowledge, comfort, and health literacy. SAGE Publications 2022-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9201322/ /pubmed/35694882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15579883221099417 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Matthews, Alicia K.
Murray, Marcus
Ben Levi, Josef
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Jeremiah, Rohan
Moore, LeAndre
Oyaluade, Damilola
Chappel, Alexis
Burke, Larisa
Watson, Karriem
Preliminary Evaluation of a Citizen Scientist Educational Curriculum Aimed at Engaging Black Men in Lung Cancer Early Detection Screening
title Preliminary Evaluation of a Citizen Scientist Educational Curriculum Aimed at Engaging Black Men in Lung Cancer Early Detection Screening
title_full Preliminary Evaluation of a Citizen Scientist Educational Curriculum Aimed at Engaging Black Men in Lung Cancer Early Detection Screening
title_fullStr Preliminary Evaluation of a Citizen Scientist Educational Curriculum Aimed at Engaging Black Men in Lung Cancer Early Detection Screening
title_full_unstemmed Preliminary Evaluation of a Citizen Scientist Educational Curriculum Aimed at Engaging Black Men in Lung Cancer Early Detection Screening
title_short Preliminary Evaluation of a Citizen Scientist Educational Curriculum Aimed at Engaging Black Men in Lung Cancer Early Detection Screening
title_sort preliminary evaluation of a citizen scientist educational curriculum aimed at engaging black men in lung cancer early detection screening
topic Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Disparity Issues
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9201322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35694882
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15579883221099417
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