A MULTIMEDIA INTRODUCTION TO CAM FOR CANCER PATIENTS

描述：HealthMark多媒体有限责任公司将开发一种教育和决策支持CD-ROM的原型，名为“癌症患者CAM互动指南”。该CD-ROM将为患者提供信息和互动工具，以集中学习补充和替代药物（CAM），他们的CAM决策和治疗选择。在第一阶段，HealthMark将识别癌症患者的CAM信息和决策需求，设计和生产产品原型，并在癌症患者身上测试原型。第一阶段的研究活动将评估使用交互式CD-ROM的可行性，以帮助癌症患者了解CAM作为其癌症治疗的一部分的用途，并决定是否使用它。第一阶段的研究将有两个组成部分：形成性评估和原型可行性测试。形成性评估将细化产品信息和此处提出的方法。原型评估将提供用户对产品可用性、接受度、知识和自我效能获得的信息。在第二阶段，将开发完整的CD-ROM，并通过随机现场试验确定该产品在提高癌症患者对CAM的认识和自我效能方面的有效性。

DESCRIPTION: HealthMark Multimedia, LLC will develop the prototype for an education and decision support CD-ROM, entitled Interactive Guide to CAM for Cancer PatientsJ. This CD-ROM will provide patients with the information and interactive tools to focus their learning about complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), their CAM decision-making, and treatment selection. In Phase I, HealthMark will identify the CAM information and decisional needs of cancer patients, design and produce a product prototype, and test the prototype with cancer patients. Phase I research activities will assess the feasibility of using an interactive CD-ROM to help cancer patients understand the uses of CAM as part of their cancer treatment and make decisions about its use. Phase I research will have two components: a formative evaluation and a prototype feasibility test. The formative evaluation will refine the product information and approach as proposed here. The prototype evaluation will provide information on product usability, acceptance, and knowledge and self-efficacy gains by users. In Phase II the complete CD-ROM will be developed and the product=s effectiveness in increasing cancer patients knowledge of CAM and their self-efficacy will be determined through a randomized field trial. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: NOT AVAILABLE