Colorectal Cancer: A Multimedia Information Prescription

描述（由申请人提供）：健康标志多媒体将开发一个原型的多媒体教育和决策程序的结直肠癌患者及其家属。该产品将提供诊断结直肠癌后所需的信息，决策辅助工具，以帮助新诊断的患者在治疗决策过程中与医疗保健团队合作，以及互动技能演示，以教授和加强疾病的物理管理技能。该计划将被设计为“信息疗法”，由医疗保健专业人员为结肠直肠癌患者开出处方。在第一阶段，患者的信息和技能需求将转化为一个互动原型，该原型将接受可用性、知识和自我效能增益的测试。医疗保健专业人员将对患者CD-ROM进行审查，以确定帮助专业人员向患者推荐产品的全部或部分作为信息治疗的具体方法。在第二阶段，将开发完整的患者CD-ROM和随附的医疗保健专业人员使用该产品的指南，以增加患者参与治疗决策和自我护理。将确定产品在增加患者知识、决策自我效能和自我护理技能方面的有效性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Health Mark Multimedia will develop a prototype multimedia education and decision-making program for colorectal cancer patients and their family members. The product will provide information needed after a diagnosis of colorectal cancer, decision aids to assist the newly diagnosed patient in working with the health care team in the treatment decision process and interactive skill demonstrations to teach and reinforce skills for physical management of the disease. The program will be designed as "information therapy" to be prescribed by health care professionals caring for colorectal cancer patients. In Phase I, the information and skill needs of patients will be translated into an interactive prototype that will be tested for usability and for knowledge and self-efficacy gains. The patient CD-ROM will be reviewed by health care professionals to determine specific methods for assisting a professional in suggesting all of part of a product to a patient as information therapy. In Phase II, the full patient CD-ROM and accompanying health care professionals' guide to using the product to increase patient involvement in treatment decisions and self-care will be developed. The effectiveness of the product in increasing patient knowledge, decisional self-efficacy and self-care skills will be determined.