PARSING BREAST CANCER INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET

申请人的描述）：预防和 乔治城大学隆巴迪癌症中心的控制一直是 由施乐公司提供部分资金， 软件产品，以教育其近49，000名员工有关的风险 乳腺癌的发病率和死亡率。的总体目的 这项建议是为了提供所需的额外资源， 选择性地推广使用该互联网软件产品和其他 在因特网上向施乐公司的办事处提供乳腺癌信息 和他们的员工来评估产品的使用过程 并评估该产品的使用对施乐员工的影响， 乳腺癌风险知识、态度与自报乳腺癌 筛选行为，以及他们的意图和采取的行动， 更充分地探索他们的个人和家庭发展的风险 乳腺癌这些建议的具体目标是：1）分层 268美国施乐办事处分为四个阶层，根据员工人数 每个办事处，并随机分配，按阶层，这些办事处的样本， 三个研究组之一：a）实验组，其中两个 Lombardi/Xerox互联网乳腺癌信息"解析"页面和 所有其他互联网乳腺癌网页都得到了推广，B）比较 集团部门，只有其他互联网没有推广（1995年10月- 1996年1月）; 2）制定并实施实验小组 Lombardi/Xerox和其他乳腺癌的推广计划 信息网页，并建立和实施一个比较组 推广计划只对其他乳腺癌的可用性 在互联网上的教育信息，通过工资支票stuffers， 广播电子邮件信息和个人登记 癌症风险评估小册子（1995年10月至1996年3月）; 3） 监控实验办公室施乐员工对Lombardi/Xerox的使用 乳腺癌信息页面为期一年，包括数量 使用次数，其他乳腺癌教育页面的数量 审查，每次使用的时间长度和员工满意度 与软件产品的设计和实施（1996年4月至3月 1997）; 4）监控"比较"和"控制"施乐办公室集团的使用 互联网上关于其他乳房的次数 乳腺癌的治疗方法有哪些？ 审查的页数和平均使用时间（1996年4月至 （5）监测"试验性"的数量和类型， “比较”办公室施乐员工谁报告他们的意图， 事实上，在伦巴第癌症中心的 预防和控制，探讨其个人和家庭的风险 乳腺癌和其他癌症（1996年4月至1997年6月）;和6）分析 实验、比较和控制办公室员工在 一个测试前/测试后的知识，态度和自我的电子邮件调查， 报告的关于乳腺癌风险降低策略的行为， 员工对乳腺癌教育的满意度 因特网上提供的材料（1997年4月至1997年9月）。

DESCRIPTION Applicant's Description): The Division of Prevention and Control of the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University has been funded, in part, by the Xerox Corporation to develop an interactive software product to educate its almost 49,000 employees about the risks of morbidity and mortality from breast cancer. The overall purpose of this proposal is to provide the additional resources needed to selectively promote the use of this Internet software product and other breast cancer information on the Internet to groups of Xerox offices and their employees to evaluate the process by which the product is used and to evaluate the impact of the product's use on Xerox employees' breast cancer risk knowledge, attitudes and self-reported breast cancer screening behaviors, as well as their intentions and actions taken to explore more fully their individual and familial risk of developing breast cancer. The specific aims of the proposals are: 1) to stratify 268 U.S. Xerox offices into four strata, based on the number of employees per office, and randomly assign, by stratum, a sample of these offices to one of three study arms: a) an experimental arm where both the Lombardi/Xerox Internet breast cancer information "parsing" page and all other Internet breast cancer pages are promoted, b) a comparison group arm where only other Internet is not promoted (October 1995 - January 1996); 2) to develop and implement an experimental group promotion plan for the Lombardi/ Xerox and other breast cancer information pages and to develop and implement a comparison group promotion plan only about the availability of other breast cancer education information on the Internet through paycheck stuffers, broadcast electronic mail(e-mail) messages and individual registration cancer risk assessment brochures (October 1995 - March 1996); 3) to monitor experimental office Xerox employees' use of the Lombardi/Xerox breast cancer information page for a one-year period including the number of times used, the number of other breast cancer education pages reviewed, the length of time of each use, and the employees satisfaction with the software product's design and implementation (April 1996 - March 1997); 4) to monitor "comparison" and "control" Xerox office groups's use of the Internet with respect to the number of times other breast education pages are accessed, the number of breast cancer education pages reviewed, and the average length of time of use (April 1996 - March 1997); 5) to monitor the number and type of "experimental" and "comparison" office Xerox employees who report their intention to, and in fact do, register with the Lombardi Cancer Center's Division of Prevention and Control to explore their individual and familial risk of breast and other cancers (April 1996 - June 1997); and 6) to analyze experimental, comparison, and control office employee differences in a pre- test/post-test e-mail survey of knowledge, attitudes, and self- reported behaviors concerning breast cancer risk reduction strategies, and the employee's satisfaction with the breast cancer education materials available on the Internet (April 1997 - September 1997).