SUNNY DAYS, HEALTHY WAYS CD-ROM CURRICULUM

皮肤癌是一种流行病，预防必须从儿童时期开始，以减少终身紫外线照射和严重晒伤。Partners for Health Systems，Inc. (PHS)将制作一个互动式多媒体（CD- ROM）版本的阳光灿烂的日子，健康的方式（SDHW）小学阳光安全课程，并评估其有效性，增加知识，改变态度有利，增加阳光安全的行为。该项目第二阶段的目标人群是在丹佛市和科罗拉多的格里利的八所公立小学就读K至5年级的学生。多媒体对健康教育工作者、教师、学生和家长的吸引力越来越大。这个第二阶段项目将建立在第一阶段（SBIR #1R43CA76755）的K级和2级原型的基础上，设计和制作一个完整的SDHW多媒体程序。CD-ROM多媒体程序的创作将根据合同由AMC癌症研究中心的健康通信核心执行。以代理人为基础的知识建构界面将被编入光盘，作为学生的智能导师。CD-ROM SDHW改善儿童防晒行为（主要结果）的能力将在配对随机前测-后测对照组设计中进行测试，雇用12所学校，144个班级和2，160名学生。数据分析将由AMC癌症研究中心的研究方法和生物统计学部门根据合同进行。建议的商业应用：计算机在教育中的使用正在迅速增加。疾病预防控制中心正计划发布国家皮肤癌预防指南，以纳入K-12综合健康教育。所有美国学校都将被鼓励将阳光安全纳入他们的课程。因此，太阳安全CD-ROM课程在公共和私人小学、幼儿园、公共图书馆以及家庭市场中具有潜在的商业应用，通过互联网，以及用于工作场所健康和管理式护理预防计划。

Skin cancer is epidemic and prevention must start in childhood to reduce lifetime ultraviolet radiation exposure and severe sunburns. Partners for Health Systems, Inc. (PHS) will produce an interactive multimedia (CD- ROM) version of the Sunny Days, Healthy Ways (SDHW) elementary school sun safety curriculum and evaluate its effectiveness at increasing knowledge, changing attitudes favorably, and increasing sun safe behavior. The target population for this Phase II project is students enrolled in grades K through 5 in eight public elementary schools in metro Denver and Greeley, Colorado. Multimedia are increasingly attractive to health educators, teachers, students, and parents. This Phase II project will build upon the grade K and 2 prototypes from Phase I (SBIR #1R43CA76755) to design and produce a complete SDHW multimedia program. The authoring of the CD-ROM multimedia programs will be performed under contract by the AMC Cancer Research Center's Health Communications Core. Agent-based, knowledge-construction interfaces will be programmed into the CD-ROMs to function as intelligent tutors for students. The ability of the CD-ROM SDHW to improve children's sun protection behavior (primary outcome) will be tested in a pair-matched randomized pretest-posttest control group design, employing l2 schools, 144 classes, and 2,160 students. Data analysis will be performed under contract by the AMC Cancer Research Center's Research Methodology and Biometrics Department. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: Computer use in education is increasing rapidly. The CDC is planning to issue national skin cancer prevention guidelines for inclusion K-12 comprehensive health education. All U.S. schools will be encouraged to incorporate sun safety in their curriculum. Thus, the sun safety CD-ROM curriculum has potential commercial application in public and private elementary schools, preschools, public libraries, as well as the home market, over the Internet, and for worksite wellness and managed care prevention programs.