Taylor Jennifer D, Kiovsky Richard D
Indiana AHEC Network, Indiana University School of Medicine, Family Medicine, 714 N. Senate Ave., Suite 205, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA,
J Community Health. 2014 Oct;39(5):968-71. doi: 10.1007/s10900-014-9840-z.
Area Health Education Centers (AHECs) play an important role in the recruitment and training of students to serve as practicing health care professionals in rural, primary care, and medically underserved communities. To analyze the relationship between the accumulated contact hours of past students in AHEC programs and their known matriculation into college. 5,189 students, whom participated in Indiana AHEC Network programs, were grouped into eight categories based on accumulated contact hours and matched against two college matriculation databases. The relationship between the number of accumulated contact hours and known college matriculation was statistically significant. The analysis of the data suggests two significant break points in which the number of accumulated contact hours appears to be correlated with increased known college matriculation. The findings indicate accumulated contact hours are significantly correlated with known college matriculation. Furthermore, two significant break points in contact hours at the 5 and 20 contact hours demonstrated increased correlations between program contact hours and known college matriculation. The results of this analysis between participation in area health education center programming and matriculation into higher education may be transferable to other areas of health education.
地区健康教育中心（AHEC）在招募和培训学生以成为农村、初级保健及医疗服务欠缺社区的执业医护专业人员方面发挥着重要作用。为分析过去参与AHEC项目的学生累计接触时长与他们已知的大学入学情况之间的关系，5189名参与印第安纳AHEC网络项目的学生根据累计接触时长被分为八类，并与两个大学入学数据库进行匹配。累计接触时长与已知大学入学情况之间的关系具有统计学意义。数据分析表明存在两个显著的断点，在这两个断点处，累计接触时长似乎与已知大学入学人数的增加相关。研究结果表明，累计接触时长与已知大学入学情况显著相关。此外，在5小时和20小时接触时长处的两个显著断点表明，项目接触时长与已知大学入学情况之间的相关性增加。参与地区健康教育中心项目与高等教育入学情况之间的这一分析结果可能适用于健康教育的其他领域。
