BREAST SELF EXAMINATION FOR DISADVANTAGED WOMEN

描述：乳腺癌的生存在很大程度上取决于早期发现。人工临床乳房检查(CBE)和乳房自我检查(BSE)是筛查无症状妇女的重要组成部分。为了可靠地检测出最小的可触摸到的病变，人工检查必须熟练和彻底。对乳房检查的MammaCare(C)系统的研究结果表明，它显著提高了CBE和BSE的技能。Mammacare个人学习系统指导妇女视听检查包含合成结节和病变的逼真乳房模型。该系统训练女性使用三种触诊压力完全覆盖所有乳房组织，并准确识别重要的内部组织结构，首先是触觉模型，然后是她们自己的乳房组织。这项可能挽救生命的技术必须适用于残疾妇女。根据美国人口普查局的数据，大约有1000万女性有视力或听力障碍。这些妇女与未受损的妇女面临相同的风险，但她们无法学习使用现有的视听培训程序进行称职的疯牛病。这项SBIR建议支持开发和验证适应性教学材料，以允许视力和听力障碍的妇女使用MammaCare。

DESCRIPTION: Surviving breast cancer depends in great part on early detection. Manual clinical breast examination (CBE) and breast self-examination (BSE) are important components of screening asymptomatic women. To detect reliably the smallest palpable lesions, manual examination must be proficient and thorough. The results of research studies on the MammaCare(c) system of breast examination suggest that it significantly improves CBE and BSE skills. The MammaCare Personal Learning System instructs women audiovisually to examine a lifelike breast model that contains synthetic nodularity and lesions. The system trains women to cover completely all breast tissue using three palpation pressures and to identify accurately important internal tissue structures, first on the tactile model and then on their own breast tissue. This potentially life-saving technology must be adapted for women with disabilities. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, about 10 million women have vision or hearing impairments. These women are at the same risk as their unimpaired counterparts, but they cannot learn to do competent BSE using existing audiovisual training procedures. This SBIR proposal supports the development and validation of adaptive instructional materials to allow women with vision and hearing impairments to use MammaCare.