Integrating Planetary Health and Environmental Justice Into High School Construction Career Education: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Ecosystem Justice Translator
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 入组人数
- 40
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Health-Integrated Equity Consciousness Index (HI-ECI)
研究概览
简要总结
This study tests whether a new educational curriculum can help high school students in construction career programs better understand how building design affects community health and environmental justice. The study compares two approaches: (1) a new "Community-Centered Design" curriculum that uses the Ecosystem Justice Translator (EJT) software tool, which helps students see connections between construction decisions, energy efficiency, nature exposure, and health outcomes in different neighborhoods; versus (2) the traditional construction career curriculum that focuses on technical skills. Students aged 14-18 enrolled in construction career programs will be randomly assigned to one of these two groups. Over 6 months, the intervention group will learn to use the EJT tool and apply environmental justice concepts to construction projects. Researchers will measure how well students understand connections between construction, environment, and health at the start, middle, and end of the program, and again 6 months later. The goal is to determine if integrating environmental justice and health concepts into construction education improves students' awareness of how their future work can help or harm community health, particularly in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 14 Years 至 18 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Age 14-18 years at enrollment
- •Current enrollment in a participating construction career pathway program (minimum 2nd semester)
- •Ability to participate in 6-month curriculum during regular CTE class periods
- •Written informed consent from parent/guardian for participants under 18 years
- •Written assent from student participant
- •Ability to complete assessments in English (with accommodations as needed)
排除标准
- •Prior participation in a formal environmental justice or planetary health curriculum within the past 12 months
- •Expected inability to complete study assessments due to planned relocation or program withdrawal
- •Concurrent enrollment in another research study involving educational interventions
研究组 & 干预措施
Community-Centered Design Curriculum with EJT
6-month Community-Centered Design curriculum integrating the Ecosystem Justice Translator (EJT). Structure: Weeks 1-4 foundations of planetary health and environmental justice; Weeks 5-10 EJT module training; Weeks 11-18 community engagement project with local stakeholder interviews; Weeks 19-24 capstone design project. Delivered during regular CTE class periods (~4 hours weekly). Students work in teams of 3-4 on authentic community challenges. EJT is a web-based computational system with four modules: Community Voice Equity Translation (CVET), Ecosystem Service Health Integration (ESHI), Environmental Justice Investment Prioritization (EJIP), and Uncertainty, Bias, and Risk Quantification (UBR).
干预措施: Community-Centered Design Curriculum with EJT (Behavioral)
CONTROL
Standard construction career curriculum per California CTE Model Curriculum Standards: building codes and permitting, construction safety (OSHA 10), blueprint reading and computer-aided design (CAD), materials science and selection, basic carpentry and framing. Control participants receive equal contact hours (~4 hours weekly for 24 weeks) without explicit health equity, environmental justice, or planetary health content. Control participants will be offered access to intervention materials and EJT software after study completion (waitlist control design).
干预措施: Traditional Technical Curriculum (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Health-Integrated Equity Consciousness Index (HI-ECI)
时间窗: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months (primary endpoint), 12 months
Composite measure of awareness of relationships between built environment, energy systems, nature exposure, and health equity. Derived from coded qualitative responses to standardized scenario prompts. Higher scores indicate greater health equity consciousness. Range 0-100.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Devan Cantrell Addison-Turner
Principal Investigator
Stanford University