Summative External Evaluation Report for An Informal Learning Model of Genetic and Genomic Education for Adult, Bilingual Learners Project

The NSF-funded project titled An Informal Learning Model of Genetic and Genomic Education for Adult Bilingual Learners, was led by Joanne Sandberg, PhD. The project included three phases:

• Phase I: Investigation of knowledge and beliefs about transmission of traits, genetic and genomic concepts, gene-environment interactions, and environmental exposures in Latinx adults born in Mexico or Central America and who have limited literacy.
• Phase II: Development of two educational interventions in Spanish that address:
  1. Information about environmental exposures that can be detrimental to health plus information about genetics/genomics
  2. Information about environmental exposures that can be detrimental to health only
• Phase III: Delivery of the educational interventions in Spanish by Lay Community Educators who are Latinas born in Mexico or Central America. Participants in each arm of the study received one of the interventions.

A critical contributor to the project’s success was the team’s use of a community-informed approach throughout. This included a Community Advisory Committee, interviews with community members that informed development of the intervention, focus groups with community members during intervention development to obtain feedback on the materials, and employing Lay Community Educators to deliver the intervention.

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