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McGladrey, Margaret; Noar, Seth; Crosby, Richard; Young, April; Webb, Elizabeth – American Journal of Health Education, 2012
Background: This paper discusses the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention's effort to develop a web-based service called Project CREATE that responds to a need for targeted health promotion materials expressed by directors of HIV/STD prevention services in predominately rural states. Purpose: Project CREATE allows users to select customized…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Watt, James H., Jr.; Stefanov, Rebecca – 1984
The situational and personal factors affecting the usage of a computer based information service by health care professionals are described. Of 166 health care professionals who were identified as potential users of MEDLINE at the University of Connecticut, 126 carried out one or more online searches. Pre-use and post-use questionnaires were…
Descriptors: Databases, Health Materials, Health Personnel, Information Needs
George, Karen, Comp.; Stabler, Karen, Comp. – 1993
Conducting research in the field of public health care policy requires the use of many different materials in the library. This guide provides a bibliography of useful tools as well as a basic strategy to follow when researching a topic. The following tools are included in the guide: indexes and abstracts; books; statistics; government documents;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annotated Bibliographies, Health Materials, Higher Education
Nelson, Gary D. – 1984
The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the contributions of computerized health risk appraisal when used as a supplement to the traditional methods of health instruction. Subjects were a convenience sample of 26 students enrolled in a university level, personal health course. Using a one group pretest posttest design, these subjects were…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware
Poehler, David L. – 1984
A pilot project examined the effectiveness of computer assisted instruction (CAI) in teaching selected concepts of health and fitness: coronary risk, lifestyle, and nutrition as related to weight control. A convenience sample of 58 students from two Concepts of Health and Fitness classes were randomly assigned to two groups, both of which used…
Descriptors: Body Weight, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware