MULTIMEDIA BREAST CANCER EDUCATION KIOSKS FOR LATINAS

描述(改编自申请人的摘要)：接生乳房 向低收入、低识字率的拉丁裔赠送癌症筛查信息 独特的挑战。交互式多媒体技术可以提供 实现这一目标的创新、高效且经济实惠的媒介 人口。这项第二阶段SBIR研究的具体目标是： 1)从文化、语言和年龄角度设计乳腺癌 针对低教育、低识字率拉丁裔的教育模式 第一阶段验证的消息开发模型；2)设计和开发 采用触摸屏和CD-ROM技术的原型售货亭 一种使用户能够轻松导航和控制方向的设备 以及他们获取信息的速度；以及3)现场测试 交互式多媒体信息亭，以确定其在提供 向拉丁裔提供乳腺癌筛查信息。前置/后置设计将 确定消息效应知识获取、态度改变、自我 1600名拉美裔多媒体用户的效能和行为意向 售货亭。随机分配的三百名女性接受了采访 暴露四个月后确定行为改变。立地 助理将进行事前和事后面谈；信息亭还将 提供关于每个信息模块的使用模式的跟踪数据。 有相当大的机会进行技术创新 利用多媒体资讯站进行健康教育。 建议的商业应用： 建议的商业应用程序不可用。

DESCRIPTION (adapted from the applicant's abstract): Delivering breast cancer screening messages to low-income, low-literacy Latinas presents unique challenges. Interactive multi-media technologies may offer an innovative, effective, and cost-accessible medium for reaching this population. The specific aims of this Phase II SBIR research are to: 1) design culturally, linguistically and age-appropriate breast cancer education models for low-education, low-literacy Latinas using the message-development model validated in Phase I; 2) design and develop prototype kiosks that employ touchscreen and CD-ROM technologies into a device that enables users to easily navigate and control the direction and pace at which they obtain information; and 3) field test the interactive multi-media kiosks to determine their efficacy in providing breast cancer screening information to Latinas. A pre/post design will determine message effect knowledge gain, attitudinal change, self- efficacy and behavioral intent on 1600 Latina users of multi-media kiosks. Three hundred of these randomly assigned women are interviewed four months after exposure to determine behavioral change. Site assistants will conduct pre- and post interviews; the kiosks will also provide tracking data on use patterns for each information module. There are considerable opportunities for technological innovation making use of multimedia kiosks for health education. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: Proposed commercial application not available.