MEDLINE AND COMPUTER CONFERENCING BY DENTISTS

牙医的 MEDLINE 和计算机会议

• 批准号: 2771698
• 负责人: WENCHE Sylling BORGNAKKE
• 金额: $ 14.28万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-30 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2771698
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; computer assisted instruction; computer human interaction; computer network; continuing education; dentistry education; human subject; information dissemination; information systems; meeting /conference /symposium

DESCRIPTION: (Taken from project abstract): Timely and extensive dissemination of research findings to practicing dental professionals represents a significant challenge for scientific and educational organizations. A three year research project is proposed to investigate the effectiveness of computer mediated communication (computer conferencing) and an on-line information resource (MEDLINE) to provide distance education and clinical information for general dentists. Continuing education and direct mail have been employed successfully to provide information and increase dentists' knowledge, but the effectiveness of new electronic resources such as computer conferencing and online literature searching is unknown. The goal of this research is to determine whether computer mediated communication and on-line access to MEDLINE can provide information to dentists that will change their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors concerning an important contemporary dental issue: periodontal diseases. Continuing education will be provided for six months to 200 Michigan dentists through a computer conference or the mail depending upon random allocation. Both groups will also be given free access to MEDLINE. The conference group will be able to perform on-line searches while the mail group will be able to request searches by telephone or mail. Following the six month education phase, participants can perform or request MEDLINE searches for six additional months. Dentists' use and perceived value of computer conferencing or mailed information will be assessed after 12 months. Changes in knowledge, attitudes and behaviors will be compared in three content areas: 1) etiology of periodontal diseases, 2) measurement and diagnosis of periodontal diseases, and 3) clinical management of periodontal diseases. Participants' use and perceptions of MEDLINE and their searching strategies will also be analyzed. Data will be collected by pre- and post-intervention mailed surveys, from transcripts of a computer conference, from MEDLINE search transcripts, and from participants'computers. This project will increase our understanding of dental professionals' acquisition and transfer of information as well as their utilization of computer-based information resources. The project will also permit investigators to explore the feasibility of community-based settings for evaluations of other informatics tools.

描述：(摘自项目摘要)：及时和广泛 向执业牙科专业人员传播研究成果 对科学和教育来说是一个重大的挑战 组织。提出了一项为期三年的研究项目，以调查 计算机媒介通信(计算机会议)的有效性和 一个在线信息资源(MEDLINE)，提供远程教育和 为普通牙医提供的临床信息。 继续教育和直接邮寄成功地应用于 提供信息和增加牙医的知识，但其有效性 新的电子资源，如计算机会议和在线 文献搜索是未知的。这项研究的目标是确定 通过计算机进行沟通和在线访问MEDLINE是否可以 向牙医提供信息，改变他们的知识、态度、 以及与当代一个重要的牙科问题有关的行为： 牙周病。 继续教育将提供6个月至200个密歇根州 牙科医生通过计算机会议或邮件随机选择 分配。这两个群体还将被允许免费访问MEDLINE。这个 会议小组将能够在邮件发送时执行在线搜索 小组将能够通过电话或邮件请求搜索。紧随其后的是 六个月的教育阶段，参与者可以表演或请求MEDLINE 再搜查六个月。 牙医对计算机会议或邮寄的使用和感知价值 信息将在12个月后进行评估。知识的变化， 态度和行为将在三个内容领域进行比较：1) 牙周病的病因学，2)测量和诊断 牙周病；3)牙周病的临床处理。 受试者对MEDLINE的使用、感知及其检索策略 也将被分析。数据将通过干预前和干预后收集 邮寄的调查，来自一次计算机会议的记录，来自MEDLINE 搜索记录，并从参与者的计算机中进行搜索。 这个项目将增加我们对牙科专业人员的了解 信息的获取和转移及其对信息的利用 基于计算机的信息资源。该项目还将允许 调查人员探索以社区为基础的环境的可行性 其他信息学工具的评价。