Exploring the learning preferences of farmworker-serving community health workers

IF 2.2 4区 医学 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Hannah Gordon BS, Genesis Ramirez, Emery L. Harwell BA, Jamie E. Bloss MLIS, AHIP, Raúl Gámez MA, BA, Catherine E. LePrevost PhD
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Community health workers are responsible for finding, processing, and transferring health information to communities with limited access to health-related resources, including farmworkers. This paper is the culmination of an undergraduate student research project to explore the learning processes and preferences of farmworker-serving community health workers in the USA. The project was designed for students from farmworker or agricultural backgrounds at two North Carolina universities and was supported by a North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services workforce development grant. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, in person and virtually, with a convenience sample of 17 current and former community health workers. The interview data were analysed thematically and identified a preference for a combination of learning styles, with visual and hands-on learning being the most preferred. Community health workers also identified the importance of learning preferences in relation to their responsibilities as health educators. This study provides librarians, along with public health and medical professionals, with useful information about learning preferences to inform the creation of new and varied learning materials for community health workers.

探索为农民工服务的社区保健工作者的学习偏好
社区卫生工作者负责寻找、处理并向包括农民工在内的获取健康相关资源有限的社区传递健康信息。本文是一个本科生研究项目的成果,该项目旨在探索美国为农民工服务的社区卫生工作者的学习过程和偏好。该项目是为北卡罗来纳州两所大学具有农民工或农业背景的学生设计的,并得到了北卡罗来纳州卫生与公众服务部劳动力发展基金的支持。该项目对 17 名现任和前任社区卫生工作者进行了半结构化访谈,访谈方式包括面谈和虚拟访谈。我们对访谈数据进行了专题分析,发现他们偏好多种学习方式的结合,其中最喜欢视觉和动手学习。社区卫生工作者还指出了学习偏好对他们作为健康教育工作者的责任的重要性。这项研究为图书馆员以及公共卫生和医疗专业人员提供了有关学习偏好的有用信息,以便为社区卫生工作者创建新的和多样化的学习材料提供参考。
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Health Information and Libraries Journal
Health Information and Libraries Journal INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-
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6.70
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10.50%
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52
期刊介绍: Health Information and Libraries Journal (HILJ) provides practitioners, researchers, and students in library and health professions an international and interdisciplinary forum. Its objectives are to encourage discussion and to disseminate developments at the frontiers of information management and libraries. A major focus is communicating practices that are evidence based both in managing information and in supporting health care. The Journal encompasses: - Identifying health information needs and uses - Managing programmes and services in the changing health environment - Information technology and applications in health - Educating and training health information professionals - Outreach to health user groups
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