Science Cafés: Engaging Scientists and Community through Health and Science Dialogue
| Autor: | Anne Kissack, Mia C. DeFino, Zeno Franco, Emily R. Connors, Syed M. Ahmed |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Medical education
Casual Community engagement business.industry General Neuroscience Community-based participatory research Health literacy Translational research General Medicine General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Scientific literacy Medicine General Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Translational science Thematic analysis business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical and Translational Science. 7:196-200 |
| ISSN: | 1752-8054 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/cts.12153 |
| Popis: | Engagement of the community through informal dialogue with researchers and physicians around health and science topics is an important avenue to build understanding and affect health and science literacy. Science Cafes are one model for this casual interchange; however the impact of this approach remains under researched. The Community Engagement Key Function of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin hosted a series of Science Cafes in which topics were collaboratively decided upon by input from the community. Topics ranged from Personalized Medicine to Alzheimer's and Dementia to BioMedical Innovation. A systematic evaluation of the impact of Science Cafes on attendees' self-confidence related to five health and scientific literacy concepts showed statistically significant increases across all items (Mean differences between mean retrospective pre-scores and post-scores, one tailed, paired samples t-test, n=141, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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