MULTIMEDIA BREAST CANCER EDUCATION KIOSKS FOR LATINAS

描述：向低收入、低识字率的拉丁美洲人提供乳腺癌筛查信息提出了独特的挑战。 交互式多媒体技术可以提供一种创新的、有效的和成本低廉的媒体来接触这一群体。 这项第二阶段SBIR研究的具体目标是：（1）使用第一阶段验证的信息开发模型，为低教育程度、低识字率的拉丁美洲人设计文化、语言和年龄适当的乳腺癌教育模块：（2）设计和开发采用触摸屏和CD的原型信息亭，ROM技术整合到一个设备中，使用户能够轻松地导航和控制他们获取信息的方向和速度，及（3）实地测试互动式多媒体资讯站，以确定其为拉丁美洲人提供乳癌筛检资讯的效能。 一个前/后设计将确定消息效果-知识的获得，态度的改变，自我效能和行为意图-对1600拉丁裔用户的多媒体信息亭。 这些随机分配的女性中有300人在暴露后四个月接受采访，以确定行为变化。 现场助理将进行采访前和采访后;信息亭还将提供每个信息模块使用模式的跟踪数据。 利用多媒体信息亭进行健康教育，有相当多的技术创新机会。

DESCRIPTION: 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 modules for low-education, low-literacy Latinas using the message-development model validated in Phase I: (2) design and develop prototype kiosks that employs 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 multimedia 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 multimedia 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.