Penn State PRO Wellness is currently accepting inquiries from researchers who feel their research could benefit.
University Park, Pennsylvania. — Penn State PRO Wellness, with support from Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), is organizing a network of teens called the Adolescent Health Network (AHN), who are trained as stakeholders and could give health researchers feedback as they build and develop their studies.
Researchers can ask high school students from grades 9-12 to provide feedback on such topics as: recruitment strategies, phrasing used in surveys, tasks study participants will be asked to complete and plans to share study results with teenagers at the conclusion of a project. The student participants are not research subjects but are providing stakeholder input and expertise on research directly relevant to them.
"At PRO Wellness, we have a long history of working with schools to provide health and wellness programming,” said Deepa Sekhar, director of Penn State PRO Wellness and co-lead of Penn State CTSI's Community-engaged Research Core. “The creation of the adolescent health network is a natural evolution of our work in schools, with a two-fold purpose: improving the quality of adolescent research and sparking interest in science and biomedical research among teens...”
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