Syed Masud Ahmed|Mia C. DeFino|Emily Connors|Anne Kissack|Zeno Franco
Science Cafés: Engaging Scientists and Community through Health and Science Dialogue
Medical College of Wisconsin|Medical College of Wisconsin|Medical College of Wisconsin|Medical College of Wisconsin|Medical College of Wisconsin
engagement community informal dialogue researchers physicians around health science topics important avenue build understanding affect health science literacy science cafs one model casual interchange however impact approach remains researched community engagement key function clinical translational science institute southeast wisconsin hosted series science cafs topics collaboratively decided upon input community topics ranged personalized medicine alzheimers dementia biomedical innovation systematic evaluation impact science cafs attendees selfconfidence related five health scientific literacy concepts showed statistically significant increases across items mean differences mean retrospective prescores postscores one tailed paired samples ttest n141 p0001 items internal consistency five health scientific literacy items excellent n126 087 thematic analysis attendees comments provides nuance positive experience suggestions possible improvements evaluation provides important evidence supporting effectiveness brief casual dialogue way increase publics selfrated confidence health science topics