title: Use of on-demand video to provide patient education on spinal cord injury.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Persons with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) have a high lifetime need for ongoing patient education to reduce the risk of serious and costly medical conditions. We have addressed this need through monthly in-person public education programs called SCI Forums. More recently, we began videotaping these programs for streaming on our website to reach a geographically diverse audience of patients, caregivers, and providers.
  
  
  METHODS
  We compared information from the in-person forums to that of the same forums shown streaming on our website during a 1-year period.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Both the in-person and Internet versions of the forums received high overall ratings from individuals who completed evaluation forms. Eighty-eight percent of online evaluators and 96% of in-person evaluators reported that they gained new information from the forum; 52 and 64% said they changed their attitude, and 61 and 68% said they would probably change their behavior or take some kind of action based on information they learned. Ninety-one percent of online evaluators reported that video is better than text for presenting this kind of information.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Online video is an accessible, effective, and well-accepted way to present ongoing SCI education and can reach a wider geographical audience than in-person presentations.
authors: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. jeanneh@uw.edu
authors: Jeanne
authors: J
authors: Hoffman
authors: Cynthia
authors: C
authors: Salzman
authors: Chris
authors: C
authors: Garbaccio
authors: Stephen P
authors: SP
authors: Burns
authors: Deborah
authors: D
authors: Crane
authors: Charles
authors: C
authors: Bombardier
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009862:Online Systems; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D013997:Time Factors; D014743:Videotape Recording / Q000379:methods*