Graphics to Enhance Health Education Materials for Underrepresented Populations

描述(由申请人提供)： 研究表明，用图片补充文本可以提高对文本中包含的信息的理解和回忆。在特定的医疗保健领域，研究还表明，在患者说明中添加插图可以显著提高理解、回忆和坚持。然而，为患者制作图片来说明材料是一项耗时的活动，需要扎实的绘画技能，这是大多数医疗队所缺乏的。 我们建议使用参与式设计模式创建一个健康相关图片的在线图片库，其中将使用医疗保健提供者和消费者的努力和贡献来创建、评估和修改图片，这些图片将免费提供给临床团队用于患者教育材料。参与式设计是一种设计方法，试图让所有利益相关者积极参与设计过程，以帮助确保产品满足他们的需求并可用。除了简单的参与式设计方法，这个项目还将基于众包模式，即接受一项传统上由指定代理执行的工作，并以公开电话的形式将其外包给一个不确定的、通常是很大的群体。所有感兴趣的人都将不愿做出他们想要的贡献。 参与式设计和众包方法的结合将使图书馆能够在没有中央权威的情况下自我发展和纠正。这种方法已经被维基百科等网站成功采用。因为目标受众的成员被允许在整个过程中积极参与，所以图片更有可能被他们更好地理解并触发预期的反应。由于这是一个互动系统，图片的数量和质量将不断增长。参与者可以随时对库中的任何图片进行改进或替换。 该项目的最终目标是通过促进 加强临床团队与患者之间的沟通。随着图片库的扩大，越来越多的教育材料将从中受益，包括知情同意书。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Studies show that complementing text with pictures can increase the comprehension and recall of the information contained in the text. In the specific domain of health care, research has also shown that adding illustrations to patient instructions can significantly increase comprehension, recall, and adherence. However, creating pictures to illustrate materials for patients is a time consuming activity that requires solid drawing skills that most medical teams lack. We propose to create an online library of health-related pictures to be populated using a participatory design model in which the efforts and contributions of health care providers and consumers alike will be used to create, assess, and revise pictures, which will be freely available for clinical teams to use in patient education materials. Participatory design is an approach to design attempting to actively involve all stakeholders in the design process in order to help ensure the product meets their needs and is usable. More than a simple participatory design approach, this project will also be based on a crowdsourcing model, which is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call. All interested individuals will be fre to contribute as much as they desire. The combination of participatory design and crowdsourcing approaches will enable the library to grow and correct itself without a central authority. This approach has been successfully adopted by sites like Wikipedia. Because members of the intended audiences are allowed active participation the entire process, the pictures are much more likely to be better understood by them and trigger the intended response. The number of pictures as well as their quality will continually grow as this is an interactive system. Participants can always make improvements or alternatives to any picture in the library, at any time. The ultimate goal of this project is to have a positive impact on clinical practice by facilitating and enhancing communication between clinical teams and patients. As the picture library expands, an increasingly broad range of educational materials will benefit from it, including informed consent forms.