Garcia-Dominic Oralia, Wray Linda A, Treviño Roberto P, Hernandez Arthur E, Yin Zenong, Ulbrecht Jan S
Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Health Promot Pract. 2010 Sep;11(5):703-13. doi: 10.1177/1524839909331909. Epub 2009 Apr 1.
We investigated whether barriers to onsite parental involvement in the Bienestar Health Program Parent Component could be identified and whether participation rates could be increased by addressing these barriers. All nonparticipating parents of fourth-grade students of San Antonio Independent School District from 4 schools, which were selected randomly from 20 intervention schools in Bienestar, were invited to take part in this study. A total of 47 of 223 (21%) parents engaged in one of four focus groups offered. Parents identified barriers to their involvement in Bienestar that fit into five descriptive categories: (a) low value, (b) high cost, (c) competing family demands, (d) concerns about the program design, and (e) social role norms. The Bienestar Parent Component was then modified according to the focus group findings, which resulted in a marked increase in parental involvement from 17% to 37% overall. These findings suggest that even when parents are involved in the initial design of parent-friendly and culturally sensitive programs, as was the case for Bienestar, maximizing parental involvement may require additional assessment, identification, and remediation of barriers.
我们调查了是否能够找出阻碍家长参与“健康福祉计划家长部分”现场活动的因素，以及通过消除这些障碍是否能够提高参与率。从“健康福祉计划”的20所干预学校中随机选取了4所学校，邀请圣安东尼奥独立学区所有四年级学生的未参与家长参与本研究。在提供的四个焦点小组中，共有223名家长中的47名（21%）参与其中。家长们指出了阻碍他们参与“健康福祉计划”的因素，这些因素可归为五个描述性类别：（a）价值低，（b）成本高，（c）家庭需求相互冲突，（d）对项目设计的担忧，以及（e）社会角色规范。然后根据焦点小组的结果对“健康福祉计划家长部分”进行了修改，总体上家长参与率从17%显著提高到了37%。这些发现表明，即使家长参与了对家长友好且具有文化敏感性的项目的初步设计，就像“健康福祉计划”那样，要最大限度地提高家长参与度可能还需要对障碍进行额外的评估、识别和补救。
