This cross-sectional study was conducted as part of larger study testing the feasibility of using a touchscreen computer health assessment in general practice patients.
This study will also assess whether a touch screen computer health assessment is likely to provide useful information to GPs by assessing the level of agreement between GP and patient self-report on the presence of health risk behaviours.
He now has a small piece of W3 Health, cofounded by his lab colleague Peter Szolovits to link incompatible computer health care systems into a kind of Web.
Clients attending a community service organisation for welfare support were invited to complete a cross-sectional touch screen computer health survey.
Following completion of the touch screen computer health survey, participants were asked to complete a pen-and-paper survey to determine the acceptability of using the touch screen computer.
In contrast, the touchscreen computer health questionnaire used in this study is a novel method of data collection and may provide participants with more privacy when reporting sensitive information.
Previous research evaluating the validity of computer health surveys have tended to compare those responses to that of paper survey or clinical interview (as the gold standard).
Intervention group members were given the HRA-O questionnaire immediately, received a computer-generated health report and were offered one of three health interventions: small group sessions, home visits or no health training.
To provide knowledge and awareness about the disease, researchers from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have developed 'The Vicious Worm', a computer-based health education programme.
16 Usage is clearly an important characteristic in assessing the popularity of a computer-mediated health education programme.
A call centre assessment, using a Computer-assisted Health Assessment by Telephone (CHAT), paper review by an anaesthetist, and a follow-up phone call if the anaesthetist wished more information, preceded the conventional preoperative clinic.
