Developing a Public Health Course to Train Undergraduate Student Health Messengers to Address Vaccine Hesitancy in an American Indian Community.

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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI:10.3390/ijerph21101320

Chassity Begay, Carmella B Kahn, Tressica Johnson, Christopher J Dickerson, Marissa Tutt, Amber-Rose Begay, Mark Bauer, Nicolette I Teufel-Shone

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The purpose of the Diné Teachings and Public Health Students Informing Peers and Relatives about Vaccine Education (RAVE) project was to develop strategies for health communication that addressed COVID-19 vaccine safety for residents of the Navajo Nation. The RAVE project developed a 16-week course using the Diné Educational Philosophy as a framework to train Diné College (DC) public health undergraduate students (n = 16) as health messengers to share COVID-19 vaccine safety information with unvaccinated peers and relatives. An online community survey (n = 50) was used to assess DC community vaccination perceptions to guide course development. The two primary reasons survey participants got vaccinated were to protect the health of others [82% (n = 41)] and to protect their own health [76% (n = 38)]. A pretest/post-test and a retrospective pretest (n = 13) were implemented to determine course effectiveness. A finding approaching significance was related to student confidence in being health messengers (9.1% increase). RAVE offers the first example in the published literature of successfully training American Indian undergraduate students in the context of a public health course to contribute to the response workforce during a public health crisis.

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开发公共卫生课程，培训本科生健康信使，解决美国印第安人社区对疫苗犹豫不决的问题。

迪内教育和公共卫生学生向同伴和亲属宣传疫苗教育 (RAVE) 项目的目的是为纳瓦霍部落的居民制定有关 COVID-19 疫苗安全性的健康传播策略。RAVE 项目开发了一个为期 16 周的课程，以迪内教育理念为框架，培训迪内学院 (DC) 公共卫生专业的本科生（n = 16）作为健康使者，与未接种疫苗的同龄人和亲属分享 COVID-19 疫苗安全信息。在线社区调查（n = 50）用于评估华盛顿特区社区对疫苗接种的看法，以指导课程开发。调查参与者接种疫苗的两个主要原因是为了保护他人的健康[82%（n = 41）]和保护自己的健康[76%（n = 38）]。为确定课程效果，进行了一次前测/后测和一次回顾性前测（n = 13）。一个接近显著性的发现与学生对成为健康使者的信心有关（增加了 9.1%）。在已发表的文献中，RAVE 是第一个在公共卫生课程中成功培训美国印第安本科生，使其在公共卫生危机中为应对工作做出贡献的例子。

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