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Going into college, many students, especially first-year's do not have a basic understanding of health insurance. "Studies show that health insurance literacy may influence how individuals use and choose health insurance services" (Quiroga Guiterrez, 2021, as cited in Loewenstein et al., 2013; Barnes et al., 2015). Knowing many first-year students have to have some form of student health insurance, this intervention will provide information to a gap that happens each year with a new class. Regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender, socioeconomic status, disability or any other form of identity; students have a right to the knowledge regarding anything pertaining their health. Implementing this intervention for these students can allow many students to take control of their own health regardless of where they are at in their development.
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F.Y.I: First-Year Insured is a intervention program geared to help first-year students navigate, learn and understand their student health insurance. Many students entering college have not experienced using their health insurance on their own. To help these students in this developmental process, Baxter Magolda's Self-Authorship Theory (outlined beginning 1992) will be used. Through this program, The Path of Self-Authorship will be looked at, more so focusing on phase 2: crossroads. As Patton (2016) explains, as individuals progress on their journey, they find out that there are things that they have been doing that do not necessarily work anymore for them, so a new plan needs to be establish to better suit their needs now.
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As a first-year student, you are rediscovering yourself and defining how your life will begin as a young adult. Students "see the need to create their own sense of self" (Patton et al., 2016). This idea will be at the center of the intervention, knowing the background of the students. The need for discovery will create an atmosphere of learning and development through health insurance literacy.
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After the end of the 60 min program, the hope is for students to have "a clearer sense of direction and more self-confidence" (Patton et al., 2016). Health Insurance is multilayered and if students can create a better understanding then fulfillment can happen.
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Learning Outcomes
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Participants will be able to define 5 health insurance terms by the end of the 60 min program.
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Participants will be able to write down 1 difference between each of the 4 different types of health insurance plans (EPO, HMO, PPO, & POS).
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Participants will be able to explain 5-10 benefits that the Western Illinois University Student Health Insurance covers.
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Looking at the elements of Self-Authorship, it is shown that the process of self-authorship allow the student to trust themselves. "Trust the internal voice involved participants realizing that while they could not always control events external to them, they did have control over how they thought about and responded to events, which lead to their becoming more confident of their internal voice" (Patton et al., 2016). Since this intervention is delivered by an insurance coordinator, healthcare professional, and graduate assistant, their will need to be trust in internal and external voices. Though, there will be small group activities and large group discussion, so there is points to be able to gain understanding from other peers who are on the same developmental level.
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