Educating Students About Personal Privilege Through an Interactive Modified Privilege Walk: A Quality Improvement Study

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Article

Publication Date

2024

DOI

10.14434/josotl.v24i3.35597

Publication Title

Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Volume

24

Issue

3

Pages

42-51

Abstract

There is a growing need for pre-health professional students to understand how the social determinants of health (SDOH) affect population health. The goal of this project was to evaluate the impact of a modified "Privilege Walk" (MPW) activity on students' awareness of personal privilege as a SDOH. Undergraduate students engaged in a MPW activity received a privilege score that could total 36 points (a higher score indicates more privilege). Students also completed a pre- and post-MPW survey to evaluate the impact of the activity on privilege awareness. Nonparametric tests were used to determine the effect of the MPW assignment on privilege outcomes. Twenty-one students completed the pre- and post-surveys. The majority of respondents were White (85.7%), non-Hispanic (90.5%), or female (81.0%). Ethnicity (1.14 points, p=0.052), race (0.71 points, p=0.0078), and current housing conditions (0.70 points, p=0.0273) were the top characteristics students felt gave them significantly more privilege. We demonstrated that an interactive approach in the classroom could increase students' awareness about privilege as a SDOH. These are promising findings as academic centers seek to evaluate and develop promising and evidence-based approaches to train healthcare students about the SDOH as they treat diverse and vulnerable patients.

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© The Authors 2024.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

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The DOI to this article, https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v24i3.35597, is non-functional as of November 2024.

Original Publication Citation

Brown, E. A., Anspach, G. B., Vaught, E., Brigham, L. A., & White, B. (2024). Educating Students about Personal Privilege through an Interactive Modified Privilege Walk: A Quality Improvement Study: An Interactive Approach to Increase Personal Privilege Awareness. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 24(3). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/35597

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