Perceptions of High Achieving African American/Black 10th Graders from a Low Socioeconomic Community Regarding Health Scientists and Desired Careers

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• Alternative Title:
  J Allied Health
• Personal Author:
  Boekeloo, Bradley ; Randolph, Suzanne ; Timmons-Brown, Stephanie ; Wang, Min Qi
• Description:
  Measures are needed to assess youth perceptions about health science careers to facilitate research aimed at increasing youth pursuit of health science. Although the Indiana Instrument provides an established measure of perceptions regarding nursing and ideal careers, we were interested in learning how high-achieving 10th graders from relatively low socioeconomic areas who identify as black/African American (black) perceive health science and ideal careers. The Indiana Instrument was modified, administered to 90 youth of interest, and psychometrically analyzed. Reliable subscales were identified that may facilitate parsimonious, theoretical, and reliable study of youth decision-making regarding health science careers. Such research may help to develop and evaluate strategies for increasing the number of minority health scientists.
• Subjects:
  Achievement Adolescent Black Or African American Career Choice Female Health Occupations Humans Male Poverty Areas Psychometrics Socioeconomic Factors

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• Source:
  J Allied Health. 43(3):133-139.
• Pubmed ID:
  25194058
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4212893
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 GM094574/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States ; 048DP001929/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; R0I GM094574/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana
• Volume:
  43
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b2ac864d4572d82d27b6eb48bd669be666ee182091fc9c92716ac97b3d94afad
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/30156/cdc_30156_DS1.pdf
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