title: Using interactive multimedia to teach parent advocacy skills: an exploratory study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the efficacy of Brain Injury Partners: Advocacy Skills for Parents, an interactive multimedia intervention that provides training in educational advocacy skills for parents of children with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
  
  
  METHODS
  Randomized trial, with participants assigned to treatment (Brain Injury Partners CD-ROM) or control (alternate CD-ROM) conditions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Knowledge; skill application; and attitude, behavioral intention, and self-efficacy to use key advocacy skills.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty-one parents of children with TBI.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The Brain Injury Partners group reported higher postintervention adjusted means for application, knowledge, and attitudes scale scores than did the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results demonstrate the utility of a computer-delivered intervention for training parents in key skills for communicating with school personnel.
authors.affiliation: Oregon Center for Applied Science, Eugene, OR 97401, USA. aglang@orcasinc.com
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Glang
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McLaughlin
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schroeder
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000523:psychology; D016251:CD-ROM; D002648:Child; D002651:Child Advocacy / Q000193:education*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D033182:Intention; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D019212:Multimedia; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000193:education*; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D012574:Schools; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013663:Teaching