STEAM in Action: Youth Environmental Health Literacy Survey Results from Rural Arizona

Kunal Palawat posted a document describing the STEAM in Action project on figshare in May 2026. The 121.0 KB file contains results from community-based youth environmental health trainings in environmental justice communities in rural Arizona. Survey results indicated that 83% (n=36) of participants' motivation to take action increased after the training.

Use Cases

• Analyze changes in youth motivation based on pre- and post-survey results mentioned in the description
• Study community-identified environmental issues like pollution and drug use based on qualitative findings
• Evaluate the impact of participatory methods like Photovoice and environmental monitoring on literacy
• Inform the design of future environmental justice training programs for youth

Strengths

• Includes specific quantitative results, such as 83% of surveyed youth showing increased motivation
• Describes a multi-method approach combining surveys, focus groups, interviews, and participatory activities
• Explicitly focuses on an understudied population: youth in rural environmental justice communities

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• The dataset is very small at 121.0 KB, suggesting limited scope or primarily textual documentation

Provenance

Source

Kunal Palawat via figshare

Collection Method

Community-based youth environmental health trainings using pre-/post-surveys, focus groups, interviews, Photovoice, and environmental monitoring.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 05:43:40; freshness should be verified

Geography

Environmental justice communities in rural Arizona