Developing Culturally and Developmentally Appropriate Early STEM Learning Experiences

Developing culturally appropriate Medicare education materials.

Cultural differences are some of the most subtle, yet critical, factors affecting how people with Medicare understand their benefits, rights and choices. This brief explores the lessons we have learned from an effort to develop and test Medicare education materials suitable for audiences of varying cultural backgrounds.

Developing a Culturally Appropriate Depression Prevention Program: Opportunities and Challenges

Developmentally and culturally appropriate screening in primary care: development of the behavioral health checklist.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the construct validity of the Behavioral Health Checklist (BHCL) for children aged from 4 to 12 years from diverse backgrounds. METHOD The parents of 4-12-year-old children completed the BHCL in urban and suburban primary care practices affiliated with a tertiary-care children's hospital. Across practices, 1,702 were eligible and 1,406 (82.6%) provided consent. Children ...

Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Philosophical and Practical Implications

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A new model for developing and executing culturally appropriate behavior modification clinical trials for African Americans.

Past clinical trials addressing behavior modification for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention have not been culturally appropriate for African Americans. This supposition is borne out by the continued challenges researchers face not only in recruiting and retaining African Americans in clinical trials, but also in achieving the desired outcomes among this population. Investigators have limi...