title: Developing patient education programs with multimedia technology incorporating patient feedback into program design.
abstract: The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston has been the site of a three year project to develop a unique set of computer-based health promotion programs for patients in community-based settings. The Healthy Touch Series is a collection of four interactive multimedia programs that were produced to provide health promotion information to underserved groups on topics related to maternal-infant health. The programs have bilingual audio tracks in English and Spanish and run on a CD-ROM platform with touch-screen control. Use of the technology with a large group of patients led to many modifications and alternations. Formative evaluation results review the key concepts we learned.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mercer
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Sweeney
mesh_terms: D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D016251:CD-ROM; D003196:Computer Graphics; D016287:Computer Peripherals; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003625:Data Collection; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D013781:Texas; D014584:User-Computer Interface