title: Multimedia computerized smoking awareness education for low-literacy Hispanics.
abstract: To meet the needs of low-literacy, underserved, Mexican-American patients, this transdisciplinary team created a freestanding computer kiosk. Smoking awareness and cessation were the topic chosen. Focus groups were used to inform the design and creation of each screen to include appropriate culturally based images and messages. A kiosk was placed in a primary care clinic in a West Texas city. User feedback was collected, showing that this method of patient education is acceptable.
authors.affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing, and High Performance Computing Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA. Susan.andersen@ttuhsc.edu
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Andersen
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Andersen
authors.forename: Norman Ed
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Youngblood
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D017144:Focus Groups; D057220:Health Literacy; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult