Evaluating an Interactive, Multimedia Education and Decision Program for Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Patients in a Randomized Controlled Trial
Abstract
Despite advances in treatment, uniform treatment recommendations for localized prostate cancer have yet to emerge. Consequently, men with this diagnosis are faced with a complex set of disease information and treatment challenges as they select a treatment option (Diefenbach, et al., 2002). To educate patients about prostate cancer and its treatment and to ease their decisional burden, we have developed an innovative CD-ROM based multimedia prostate cancer interactive education system. The development of the software has been guided by our cognitive-affective, self-regulation theoretical framework (Diefenbach & Leventhal, 1996; Miller & Diefenbach, 1998). PIES uses the metaphor of a health center. Patients can explore various rooms to interactively obtain treatment and disease information. PIES goes beyond the inclusion of text, video, audio, and animation, by providing a unique intelligent expert system that tailors text information to the patient's information seeking preferences (high vs. low monitoring; Miller, 1996; Miller & Diefenbach, 1998). Research has identified high monitors as information seeking and being more distressed compared to low monitors, who are classified as information distracting and being less distressed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA435019
Entities
People
- Michael A. Diefenbach
Organizations
- Fox Chase Cancer Center