Using ACHA-NCHA Data to Guide Your Campus Health Promotion Efforts

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Using ACHA-NCHA Data to Guide Your Campus Health
Promotion Efforts

• Using the ACHA-National College Health Assessment
  to Examine the Health Status and Health Needs of
  Your Students
• December 1-2, 2006 Las Vegas, NV
• Presented by
• Melissa Kenzig, MSPH, CHES
• Director, Alice! Health Promotion Program
• Health Services at Columbia University

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Agenda

• Objectives
• Why do the NCHA?
• How do you use the NCHA?
• Conducting the NCHA an overview
• Using the data to set priorities and guide health
  promotion
• Examples
• Final questions

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Objectives

• Contrast the experience of conducting the
  ACHA-NCHA at institutions of different sizes,
  demographics, and affiliations.
• Describe how to utilize ACHA-NCHA results to
  determine program goals and objectives.
• Discuss how ACHA-NCHA results can be used to
  garner support (financial or otherwise) for
  college health programs.

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MKs History with the NCHA

• University of San Francisco, 1998-2003
• 8,000 students, private, urban, Jesuit
• Conducted the CORE once, NCHA twice
• Random sample
• Paper-based
• Columbia University, 2004-present
• 20,000 students, private, urban, Ivy League
• Conducted NCHA twice
• Entire population
• Web-based

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Why do the NCHA?

• better understand trends
• identify emerging problems
• report behavioral norms
• identify risk factors to safety and academic
  performance
• prioritize student health issues
• allocate resources for programming
• design new programs
• evaluate current strategies

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How do you use the NCHA?
Health Education
Public Health Planning Model
Policy Changes
Health Promotion Initiatives
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Conducting the NCHA
Prepare for the survey

• Prior to implementation
• Approval
• Paper vs. web
• Sampling
• Additional questions
• IRB approval
• During implementation
• Student communications
• Technical support
• After implementation
• Analysis
• Distribution of results

Do the survey
Get the results from the survey
Then what?
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Comparing your results

• Baselines National data
• Targets Healthy Campus 2010
• Institutional Priorities

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Comparing Your Results
HC 2010 Objective NCHA Question HC 2010 College Baseline HC 2010 Target CU NCHA 2005 Undergrad CU NCHA 2005 MS Grad
1-1. Increase the proportion of persons and college students with health insurance. 58 83.3 100 95.4 95.7
19-5/6. Increase the proportion of college students who consume at least five daily servings of fruit and vegetables. 38 7.4 25.5 8.8 8.3
N/A. Decrease the percentage of students who report experiencing academic impacts as a result of sleep difficulties. 44W N/A National UG 41.9 National Grad 28.3 N/A (15) 43.1 24.4
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Priority Determination Example

• Physical Activity
• Who cares? Physical activity has been shown to
• Improve cognitive performance
• Decrease stress
• Improve sleep quality
• Increase energy levels
• Be important to the CU president
• Healthy Campus 2010 Objective 22-2/3. Increase
  the proportion of college students who engage in
  physical activity at least 3 days per week that
  includes moderate physical activity for at least
  30 minutes, or vigorous physical activity for 20
  or more minutes per occasion.

CU Undergrads National Undergrads CU Grads National Grads HC 2010 Target
43.1 43.3 37.7 28.1 55
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Experience vs. Impact (Q44) Columbia University
Undergrads
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Goal Setting Example
See http//www.usfca.edu/hps/recommendations.pdf
for the full report.
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Student Wellness Program Return on Investment -
Loma Linda
Reference Jim Grizzell, http//www.csupomona.edu/
jvgrizzell/
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Moving From Data to Practice

• What are we currently doing to reach our
  goal/target?
• Policy/initiative analysis at your institution
• What are the evidence-based practices that could
  help us reach this goal/target?
• Examine costs/benefits
• Literature review
• What will we implement?
• Best practices!
• How will we measure our progress?
• NCHA
• Another survey, focus groups, other

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Final Questions

• What are your institutional and departmental
  priorities globally?
• Let me tell you what those priorities have to do
  with health
• What health issues are most impacting your
  students success?
• Define success on your campus
• Who are your allies in health promotion on
  campus?
• Is what youre doing (or going to do)
  mission-driven?

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Contact information

• Melissa Kenzig, MSPH, CHES
• Director, Alice! Health Promotion Program
• Health Services at Columbia University
• 2920 Broadway
• Lerner Hall 7th Floor, MC 2608
• New York, NY 10027
• [phone]
• mk2422_at_columbia.edu
• www.health.columbia.edu