English as a Second Language Health Literacy Program

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Language; Health Literacy

Treatments: Behavioral: ESL Health Literacy Classes

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT04125680

UL1TR002240 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

HUM #00148555

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research is using a Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) approach to design, implement, and evaluate English as a Second Language health literacy classes for Hispanic adults to reduce lead exposure.

Full description

This Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) aims to:

1. Develop a community-based participatory English as a Second Language (ESL) health literacy curriculum for lead exposure that can be used in other locations or programs.
2. Determine the outcomes of the curriculum, including changes in knowledge about lead, access to health resources, and health behavioral changes to reduce lead exposure.
3. To evaluate the implementation of the ESL health literacy curriculum.

This research focuses on ESL health literacy classes provided to Hispanic adults to reduce lead exposure. This research will use a pilot test with a pre-post test design. The program will last for 8 weeks; with weeks 1 and 8 as the assessment weeks. The curriculum uses pedagogies that move participants from health literacy as functional skill to health literacy as social practice where knowledge is used for empowerment and meaningful change. The goals of this research are to demonstrate increased health literacy knowledge, improved health behaviors, increased access to health services, and improved English language proficiency for Hispanic residents of Flint in relation to lead exposure prevention.

Enrollment: 17 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hispanic immigrants living in or around Flint.
• Native speakers of Spanish, with varying degrees of English fluency and literacy.
• 18 years old and older.

Exclusion criteria

• Immigrants from other linguistic backgrounds will be excluded at this time because all program materials will be bilingually available in English and Spanish.
• Children will be excluded at this time because we are focusing on ESL health literacy for adults.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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17 participants in 1 patient group

ESL Health Literacy Classes

Other group

Description:

The program will last 8 weeks with classes held online during evening hours. The curriculum will focus on using pedagogies for health literacy as a practice. Assessments will be administered pre-post intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: ESL Health Literacy Classes